First of all, thanks to anyone who takes the time to answer these questions Welfare- Even though that the welfare system is abused by many who are on the program, and that this is only slowing economic growth, if all the people who received government benefits were suddenly forced to get a job in o…

Welcome to the Mises Forum! You raise some good questions. I’ll see what I can do to shed some light for you… Well…how would it benefit from them not looking for jobs and sitting around getting paid to do nothing? You asked: “wouldn’t it be better then to keep these people on welfare rather than h…

Better for who? In this case, good politics is bad economics; by which I mean that while you might have a short-term economic down-turn from the loss of spending as these people tightened their belts, the long term effect of a more productive economy as these people obtained jobs and the economy ab…

Why did you mis-spell (and emphasize it) Schiff’s name? Can a mod fix this, please? Bang-bang changes to the status quo are not a part of liberal public policy recommendations. Welfare needs to be dismantled. That doesn’t and shouldn’t mean overnight. However, without enlightened individuals in th…

Why did you mis-spell (and emphasize it) Schiff’s name? Can a mod fix this, please? That’s what the YouTube channel where he got the video from is called. As for the emphasis, I have no idea.

That’s what the YouTube channel where he got the video from is called. As for the emphasis, I have no idea. Yes, if you view the video, you’ll see it’s from an anti-Schiff channel not-so-cleverly named “schitt report” to play off the name of Peter’s actual channel. The emphasis was added to make…

+1 for overly intricate explanations.

Great to have you here! (sudden influx of new people much?) I was in the same shoes that you were a few years ago so I daresay that I could help you out. If you have any questions that you’d like to talk one on one about with someone then feel free to shoot me a PM :slight_smile: James did a great …

I noticed that the video the OP linked to has its ratings disabled. Strange. I also went to the other videos by this fellow and low and behold the ones I went to also had their rating disabled. I decided to try and make a civil comment on the OPs linked video and I got a message “waiting for approva…

On the minimum wage: you might want to look at this thread.

Three questions from a clueless high school student

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RothbardsDisciple December 2, 2011, 7:37pm 7

Good extrapolation of the mysterious italics, James.

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