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Path to Prosperity (Episode 3): 3 Steps to Pro-Growth Tax Reform -- VISUALIZED

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@DrChill2 What he's saying is that if you close the loopholes, businesses won't spend resources on finding out how to exploit loopholes, instead put resources toward what they're supposed to be doing: creating goods and services.

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Episode One: Economic Freedom & Quality of Life

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@themasteriswatching The study derives economic freedom from many dimensions: size of government, legal structure, access to sound money, freedom to trade, and regulation of credit, labor, and business. And there are many subdivisions within those. If it's more comfortable for you to dismiss t...

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  Episode One: Economic Freedom & Quality of Life

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  @S0up3rD0up3r Yeah they did: less corruption, more civil rights, higher incomes, etc. etc.

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  Episode One: Economic Freedom & Quality of Life

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  qerplonk said:

  @z90OoAluYsioNoO09z Yeah, I'm sure NO ONE would pay to have their cancer or AIDs cured. Probably no opportunity to make money there for those greedy pharmaceutical companies. You've got to be joking. Plus, I'd like to point out --- and this is really going to blow your mind --- that you're ty...

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  Episode One: Economic Freedom & Quality of Life

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  @z90OoAluYsioNoO09z The rich are only rich because they feed off the poor's labor? You're right, we should quit letting the rich feed off the poor's labor. We should stop all Fortune 500 companies from hiring people, because really all they're doing is sucking them dry! Who needs jobs? The p...

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  @z90OoAluYsioNoO09z I'm saying it's companies like Nike that will bring them out of crushing poverty. And it will be a lot easier for them to rise up, because a lot of the machinery and infrastructure has already been invented. If you haven't noticed, India is on the rise because of their boom...

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  @RobertsGarden Hopefully you don't live in the U.S., or else all of your comments would be very hypocritical.

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Why do the Koch brothers want to end public education?

This film and investigation connects the dots and reveals why the Koch brothers are trying to end public education and how their wealth winds up in...

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@Coelacanth1938 Yeah...they only founded the country.

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  Why do the Koch brothers want to end public education?

  This film and investigation connects the dots and reveals why the Koch brothers are trying to end public education and how their wealth winds up in...

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  @ansdguy So are you saying that sweeping education legislation from the government designed to help teachers actually made the problem much worse? You're preaching to the choir here.

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  Why do the Koch brothers want to end public education?

  This film and investigation connects the dots and reveals why the Koch brothers are trying to end public education and how their wealth winds up in...

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  @MarmaladeINFP "How do we stop such vast wealth when it can buy politicians who are supposed to represent us?" By giving the politicians less control over the economy.

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  Why do the Koch brothers want to end public education?

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  @MarmaladeINFP Wow.

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  Why do the Koch brothers want to end public education?

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  @SandraDee531 "I live in a state with NO Teacher Unions and they are fired for poor performance." That's what I'm saying. Teachers do make a good wage. And since they have shorter work years and work days, they make more per hour than many other educated professionals.

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  Why do the Koch brothers want to end public education?

  This film and investigation connects the dots and reveals why the Koch brothers are trying to end public education and how their wealth winds up in...

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  @carmenelectra10 Yeah, because anyone CrAzY EnOuGh to believe that teacher's unions are bad for students must be Fox News watching, Koch check collectin' sheeple. After all, they're they only people in the entire world who believe such "backasswards nonsense." We all swallow it because they sa...

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  Why do the Koch brothers want to end public education?

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  @whitecrane123 There is no doubt in my mind that there are difficult moments in teaching. And I can see how teaching to the test extinguishes any love of learning. What I won't condone is a system that keeps bad teachers in schools, because they are protected by unions. I don't think that's w...

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  Why do the Koch brothers want to end public education?

  This film and investigation connects the dots and reveals why the Koch brothers are trying to end public education and how their wealth winds up in...

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  @paulparanoid Well let's see here. Teacher's unions artificially raise the wages for teachers, whose jobs are guaranteed by the government through protectionist laws (they get votes in return), who pays for it by forcefully taking money from its citizens, and the risk of getting fired for poor ...

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qerplonk commented 7 months ago

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Episode One: Economic Freedom & Quality of Life

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@unforgivn81 For someone who claims to be concerned about competition, it's amazing to me that you believe antitrust laws foster it. Private firms that are successful in commercial markets attract bureaucrats like ants to honey. Business executives that are either too incompetent or lazy to co...

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  @unforgivn81 Free trade is a free market, they're the same. Can you name one free market that collapsed into anticompetitive behavior? According to you there are many.

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  qerplonk said:

  @buggsmoran Here, the video defines quality of life as: income per person, income of the poor, happiness, civil rights, environmental quality, life expectancy, corruption, infant mortality, and level of child labor. Any ambiguity of a single variable's importance should be tempered by the shee...

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qerplonk commented 8 months ago

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Top 3 Myths About Immigration

Prof. Ben Powell explores the top three myths about immigration. After analyzing the data, he finds that immigrants in fact do not have negative ...

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@rmtskingdom using the NBA or NFL as a proxy for the rest of the economy is surely going to lead you to some misconceptions about immigration. USE BASEBALL INSTEAD

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  @KSB26 It's not as simple as getting more people = prosperity. There are tons of other considerations like property rights, rule of law, and free trade that predict wealth for its citizens. Likewise, there are many considerations that go into an unemployment rate. This video argues that immigr...

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qerplonk commented 9 months ago

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Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two

"Fight of the Century" is the new economics hip-hop music video by John Papola and Russ Roberts at http://EconStories.tv.

According to the Nationa...

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You're in a catch-22. If you can't trust people to hold themselves to sensible rules and standards, why push for them to make more of your decisions for you (via government)?

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  Fight of the Century: Keynes vs. Hayek Round Two

  "Fight of the Century" is the new economics hip-hop music video by John Papola and Russ Roberts at http://EconStories.tv.

  According to the Nationa...

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  @avielMenter and the "certain measures" that protect us from our invariable idiocy are designed by...........? Who decides?

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  Zero Gravity Water Bubble

  Zero gravity water bubble and Alka Seltzer experiment

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  This guy must've been so jazzed to get to space.

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qerplonk commented 9 months ago

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The Path to Prosperity (Episode 1): America's two futures, visualized

This 3-minute video is a visualization of the House Republicans' budget, "The Path to Prosperity," presented by Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the Hou...

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@welcometochristmas Whatever you need to believe to excuse yourself for your own poor decisions, go for it. Just keep it off of YouTube.

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  The Path to Prosperity (Episode 1): America's two futures, visualized

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  @amitbarfs No I'm saying is there a country in the world that provides all of those benefits to its citizens, while taxing the rich to pay for it? As in, is there a country we should be more like?

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  @amitbarfs Is there a country you can point to that's been able to do provide food, clothing, housing, medical care for its citizens by taxing the rich? Whose model should we be following?

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  The Path to Prosperity (Episode 1): America's two futures, visualized

  This 3-minute video is a visualization of the House Republicans' budget, "The Path to Prosperity," presented by Rep. Paul Ryan, chairman of the Hou...

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  qerplonk said:

  @amitbarfs US can afford multiple simultaneous wars = it should pay for everyone's living expenses? Yeah............that might work.

  So where does the money come from?

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