In my latest Epoch Times column I say puzzling polls suggesting the federal Liberals would win a snap election easily, despite a record as disappointing to friends as infuriating to foes, indicate that there’s something wrong with the Opposition and just possibly the electorate as well.
In my latest National Post column I say now that the Department of Finance has discovered, again, that people emerging from poverty face a very high marginal tax rate as benefits are withdrawn, it needs to rediscover that there is no technical solution here, only a tough call as to how to live with it.
“no rational creature can be supposed to change his condition with an intention to be worse”
John Locke The Second Treatise of Government
“Economic activists are not irrational. When they are punished for success, they avoid success. When they are rewarded for success, they act more creatively.”
Robert Novak Will It Liberate?
In my latest National Post column, part of the paper’s “Serious Canada” series, I list the things a nation serious about its finances would do, and warn of the consequences if we don’t.
In my latest Mercatornet article I ask people who call themselves rational and civil to look at COVID-19 through some less politicized and more edifying lens than boo hiss down with Trump.