This animated video provides an excellent illustration of the mechanics of minimum wage laws, while also demonstrating the importance of separating intentions from outcomes:
In case you weren’t watching the game, here’s the commercial in question:
The two mayoral gun-grabbers start off by claiming that both support the 2nd Amendment, proof once again that the easiest way to tell when a politician is lying is to notice when their lips are moving. But the idea that Bloomberg, perhaps the single biggest nanny in the country, is a supporter of the Second Amendment is laughably absurd.
Just recently I highlighted a story so egregious – a shop owner being fined $30,000 for stocking six obviously fake toy guns – that I simply declared the entire state to be hoplophobic. This might have been hyperbole, but it’s certainly true of Bloomberg and his city. New York City has a track record of gun hysterics, and recently threw the book at a marine and Iraq War veteran who attempted to check his legally owned gun at the Empire State Building . Nanny-in-Chief Bloomberg’s prosecutors think he deserves 3 years in jail for the horrible offense of bringing a legally purchased and owned gun into the People’s Republic of New York. The man has an irrational, nonsensical fear of guns, and will stop at nothing to eliminate our Constitutional right to posses them.
Update:According to DHS, this post makes me a “militia extremist.”
He managed to stop himself before slipping in a “Thank you, come again.”
*And just to be clear, that was a bit tongue-in-cheek. I don’t think Biden is actually a racist. I think he’s an idiot. But we all know what the narrative would be if someone with an R after their name was equally as boneheaded.
This great video from the Cato Institute explains the economics behind antidumping rules, and how they raise prices for consumers and cost American jobs:
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