Distributive justice

Goldberg tackles ‘social justice’

Jonah Goldberg identifies for National Review Online readers a major problem with “social justice.” … [S]ocial justice is nonsense. Now, when I say “nonsense,” I mean nonsensical, as in lacking…

Progressivity And The Flat Tax

Is the the idea of a “progressive flat tax” an oxymoron? The typical argument for a broad-based flat-rate income tax, also called a single rate or proportional tax, is that…

The right kind of class warfare vs the wrong kind

The meaning of social justice

You keep and dispose of what you earn unmolested by me, and I keep and dispose of  what I earn unmolested by you.

Do Americans want more wealth redistribution?

A video claims to prove they do, but in today’s Freeman piece, Max Borders disputes that idea. There is something fundamentally wrong in basing coercive policies on what most people…

Capitalism is more than fair

Critics often attack capitalism as unfair. Economist David Rose of the University of Missouri-St. Louis rebutted that argument during a presentation today to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. In…

Walter Williams speaks sense about the hobgoblin of income inequality

Economics professor Walter Williams speaks sense about the new leftist hobgoblin that is meant to distract voters from all the problems leftist policies have caused, namely income inequality. He argues…

On The Issue Of Fairness

We’re hearing and reading a lot about “fairness” these days and, this weekend, I came across a passage that jumped out at me. It’s from The Road To Freedom by…

Would more income redistribution make us better off?

In this Freeman essay, Max Borders spars with two economists, including Duke’s Dan Ariely, who argue that we ought to have more income redistribution. Of course, Max is against that…

Wealth Redistribution is Moral and Fair… but GPA Redistribution is Wrong!

At the University of California-Merced students overwhelmingly support the redistribution of wealth from working Americans and entrepreneurs but a petition to redistribute excessive GPA points to the less fortunate was…

Father Sirico on Obama’s biblical interpretations

My favorite line, “That’s not biblical theology that’s Robin Hood theology.”

The moral element to the debt debate

In his Freeman column, Sheldon Richman argues that failing to raise the federal debt ceiling won’t be a calamity, but adds an important consideration as to which claimants ought to…