September 20, 2010

The Curious Logic of Our Governing Elites

By Randall Hoven
George Orwell said, "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them." What follows is my beginning of a list of ideas that some very intelligent people seem to believe.The air should be taxed. More precisely, what every animal on earth exhales and what every plant on earth inhales can and should be taxed.President Bush was bad for the economy because he spent too much. President Obama is helping the economy by spending a lot.A jury is better informed if evidence is withheld from it.The Boy Scouts are wrong for having policies that inhibit pedophilia. The Catholic Church was wrong for not having policies that inhibit pedophilia.An economy in which government accounts for about 40% of economic activity, which owns a similar percentage of all land, and which enforces a stack of regulations the size of 64 Bibles (or 30 New Deals) is considered a radical laissez-faire free market.Grabbing a person by his shirt and pulling him toward you is...(Read Full Article)