American economist and statistician (1912–2006)
The “affordability crisis” is arguably shaping up to be the top issue for this election season. One can barely go five minutes on social media or television without hearing a…
For decades, American policymakers have debated how best to reduce poverty. The dominant policy response since 1964 and the launch of the War on Poverty under President Lyndon B. Johnson has been redistribution, expanding government programs designed to transfer…
Tim Chapman writes for National Review Online about an interesting development in the nation’s largest city. New York City’s socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani walked into a Queens bodega recently and…
I grew up a Rush Baby. Some of my earliest political memories come not from school or textbooks but from Rush Limbaugh’s unmistakable voice filling our car. I subscribed to…
M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about congressional Democrats’ approach to the federal government shutdown. As Milton Friedman warned us more than 40 years ago, “Nothing is so permanent as…
Jack Hellner writes for the American Thinker about “skyrocketing” health care costs for seniors. As Milton Friedman always said, governments cause inflation. Thus, the government is behind the massive increase…
After a decade of resistance, North Carolina expanded its Medicaid program this year. It marks the largest entitlement increase in state history. Since government intervention is the major culprit in…
With the recent release of our monthly Civitas Poll, an abounding 57% of likely general election voters say their beliefs align more with capitalism than socialism. Sixty-six percent said that capitalism more closely…
Government subsidies involve policymakers using your money to prop up politically chosen initiatives. Policymakers speak as if using your money to chase lofty, vague ends is morally superior to your…
Rep. Dennis Riddell (R-Alamance) filed a bill yesterday to limit the state’s spending. Specifically, H.B. 146 would amend the North Carolina Constitution by adding a new article to limit the state’s…
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Young people have a more favorable view of socialism than capitalism. Reasons cited are based on moral intuition, not superior wealth and productivity. To win in the arena of ideas,…