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Social Issues
The Growth Trap
11/21/05
Conflict around growth issues arises because, though both sides are logical, one uses "individual logic," the other "collective logic." Individual logic: "Do what's logical for me." Collective logic: "Do what's logical for the whole."
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Growth Facts of Life
1/19/04
This short essay summarizes the "facts of life" about growth.
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The Trouble with TABOR
2/27/05
The problem with TABOR is that approving development with TABOR is like charging a credit card and then not paying the bill. It locks the barn door after the horse has been stolen. It's misguided public policy that contributes to the government dysfunction the "Doug Bruces" complain about.
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Taxes: 2C or Not 2C?
10/27/09
Sean Paige's appointment to City Council wasn't just a jolt ("Turn the Paige" 10/22); it adds insult to injury. It's exactly libertarian ideology that's led to Colorado Springs' economic collapse. This explains how.
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Single-Payer Health Insurance
10/25/09
Privatized health insurance doesn't work. Why? First, it's fatally flawed because of adverse selection. Added to that are a bunch of other reasons: less U.S. innovation, higher costs, personal bankruptcy, death, corporations between patients and doctors, obscene CEO pay, and high overhead & profit.
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There's no 'free market' for Labor
5/21/05
"Free market" ideologues believe that wages are determined by labor market supply and demand. It isn't true. There is no "free market" for labor. This article explains the manipulation and its result: "employees' share of the value added in the U.S. economy has fallen to its lowest point since records were first kept in 1947 -- and the rate of decline is accelerating."
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Trade Truth #3: 'Trade' Talking Points
6/12/08
Here are concise responses for those who wish to be effective in opposing "free trade" rhetoric.
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Petroleum Prevarication
5/10/08
U.S. petroleum exports are about 10% of imports. Want to increase U.S. oil supply by 10%? Stop exporting it. Drill in ANWR? No; that oil would likely be exported.
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Trade Truth #2: The Dollar & The Deficit
4/27/08
The falling dollar did not increase the rate of goods export growth as pro "free trade" advocates maintain it should. The trade balance was less negative by $50B in 2007 because of increased growth of services exports and decreased growth of goods imports. Oil is a problem, but it's less than 20% of the trade deficit. The petroleum deficit fell in real dollars by $4.6B in 2006 and $3.9B in 2007 despite rising oil prices. There's a major structural problem driving the U.S. toward economic collapse.
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Trade Truth #1: The NAFTA Nemesis
4/18/08
"Free trade" fundamentalists tout "export growth" as essential to economic well-being. But, after NAFTA, exports have suffered relative to imports no matter how one looks at the data. They totally ignore how imports have slammed exports on all counts: absolute level, growth, and acceleration.
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