Mar 26, 2025
Imagine that all of this money could be captured through an estate tax and the proceeds disbursed equally to every man, woman, and child living in the U.S. It would come to an average of nearly $13,000 for every U.S. resident every year!
Mar 12, 2025
There have been three principal obstacles to converting entirely to solar energy: technical, economic, and political. The technical and economic obstacles have now been overcome. The political obstacles remain, and they are formidable.
Mar 3, 2025
Beyond a certain point it can be cheaper to live with some inefficiency or corruption than to completely eliminate them. One advantage of peaceful reform over violent revolution is that reforms, even those ultimately producing large changes, are always gradual.
Feb 21, 2025
The increase in demand by AI will be more abrupt. Thanks to this sudden projected increase in the electricity we need, major price hikes are a distinct possibility.
Feb 19, 2025
Any good conservative understands that making large changes in complex social and economic systems without careful consideration of the costs and benefits are likely to produce terrible results.
Feb 10, 2025
In the absence of a world government that can enforce rules everywhere, the only way to prevent the tragedy of the commons from finishing off the atmosphere is by voluntary cooperation among all of the countries on the planet.
Feb 4, 2025
Hopefully, Congress will not choose to emulate the Soviet Union or Orwell's dystopia even in a small way by creating an "External Revenue Service" whose very name is a lie.
Jan 24, 2025
Greenland has never been part of the United States. We would not even have the feeble argument Vladimir Putin uses to justify attacking Ukraine: that it used to be part of the same political system that Russia was.