As this article shows, technology creates more jobs than it destroys – despite the claims to the contrary, innovation is a job creator, not a job demolisher”. But this issue keeps receiving attention. For example, Bill de Blasio’s “robot tax” idea and Andrew Yang’s...
Or maybe not says Nia Harris and Cassandra Simpson at Lobelog. So where is all that additional taxpayer money actually going, if not job creation? At least part of the answer is contractor profits and soaring CEO salaries. In those six years, Lockheed’s stock...
If I wanted to increase income and wealth inequality, I could start by looking at San Francisco as a model of what to do. Strict property zoning restrictions combined with high taxes make it unaffordable for the non-rich to live there. As reported by the Stanford...
On July 29, 2019, U.S. Soccer president Carlos Cordeiro released an open letter and fact sheet addressed to “Friends, Colleagues and Supporters of U.S. Soccer.” Though he spends much of the letter emphasizing the organization’s commitment to “equal pay for equal...
There are a few issues where Americans on both sides of our political divide are in agreement and one of them is the wrongfulness of civil asset-forfeiture laws. Under those laws (which exist at federal, state, and local levels), a person can be deprived of his...
Last week the BBC revealed the salary rates for employees earning over £150k per year. The furore has been immense with three distinct themes being clear. There is an enormous pay gap between the two genders (that’s male and female if you were unsure), between race...
If you are a member of the campus thought police and offended by the word “dago,” too bad. Here are some other offensive synonyms for “Italian:” wop, greaseball, greaser, goombah, mobster, and garlic eater. I grew up being called all of those slurs. But until recent...
Bill Gates has called for a “robot tax” to help maintain government tax revenue when human laborers are let go because a “robot comes in to do the same thing.” He seems to be following the same line of argument that many make for a universal basic income: when a...
