I study economists such as Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams.
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"When the left loses an election, it tries to destroy the country; when it wins, it succeeds."
— Friedrich Hayek
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Illinois - please vote for a man who has lost so much, and wants to restore hope to our beautiful state. We need leadership badly here - the kind of leader who wants us all to rise, not the chosen few like JB Pritzker.
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Invest in things that do things that are measured in wattage and tonnage…
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"Musk cited the political establishment’s lack of will as the main reason for the difficulty in reducing the fiscal deficit. He argued, 'No one in the White House, Senate, House, or judiciary has the will to cut spending,' and claimed that except for a few like Republican Senator Rand Paul, there are virtually no politicians willing to reduce government spending."
chosun.com/english/industry-…
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For years, climate hysteria won most every argument.
Now, finally, the craziness has diminished.
In my full interview with @AlexEpstein we cover the shift, and also: why AI matters, Trump’s energy policies, ESG, and more:
Geoff Page retweeted
“El socialismo es como la polio: vuelve cuando la gente olvida el terrible daño que causó la última vez”.
- Garry Kasparov -
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"Los seres humanos nacen con distintas capacidades. Si son libres, no son iguales. Si son iguales, no son libres"
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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“The people who run our private enterprises have the same incentive as the people who are involved in our government enterprises. In all cases the incentive is the same: to promote their own interest.”
— Milton Friedman
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“I had just as much opportunity to play basketball as Michael Jordan had. But equal opportunity was not nearly enough to create equal outcomes.”
— Thomas Sowell
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The top 1% earned 21% of the income and paid 38% of the income tax.
The bottom half earned 12% and paid 3%.
The top 10% carried 70% of the entire federal income tax. It can’t get any more progressive than this.
“Tax the rich” already happened. The rich are the tax base, and they still get told they don’t pay their fair share.
Which is why they’re now moving to expropriating wealth.
Geoff Page retweeted
“El socialismo es la ilusión de que alguien puede administrar mejor tu vida que tú mismo.”
- Antonio Escohotado -
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A large part of mathematics which becomes useful developed with absolutely no desire to be useful, and in a situation where nobody could possibly know in what area it would become useful; and there were no general indications that it ever would be so. By and large it is uniformly true in mathematics that there is a time lapse between a mathematical discovery and the moment when it is useful; and that this lapse of time can be anything from 30 to 100 years, in some cases even more; and that the whole system seems to function without any direction, without any reference to usefulness, and without any desire to do things which are useful.
-- John von Neumann,
"The Role of Mathematics in the Sciences and in Society" (1954)
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We’ve turned recycling into a moral ritual instead of a cost‑effective environmental tool.
Denmark now has 10 trash categories, but chasing arbitrary target rates means spending nearly €4,000 per ton of CO₂ avoided—50x the EU carbon price.
Recycle what is worth recycling. Then throw away the idea that more recycling is always better.
My new op-ed: wsj.com/opinion/most-recycli…
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“Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.”
— Thomas Sowell
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“If you pay people not to work and tax them when they do, don’t be surprised if you get unemployment.”
— Milton Friedman
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Gov. Pritzker still won't commit to the federal school choice tax credit program, even as some Dem governors (Polis, Hochul) join the pro-school choice wave.
Pritzker's failure to commit follows his 2023 decision to let Illinois' only school choice program die (sunset). No other state has killed off school choice entirely like Illinois has.
The sad fact is in districts like Chicago, only 13% of black 4th graders were reading at grade level on national tests (NAEP) in 2024. In math, it was only 11%.
Illinois' children, whether in Decatur or Waukegan or Marion, are too often trapped in a failing system. They need options and the $1,700 federal tax credit offers children just that – at no cost to local or state school budgets.
Illinois needs some educational freedom now, but Pritzker refuses to go against the teachers unions.
#twill @GovPritzker
