Pipes Output http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=vl5m2N7x2xG6yGBTn0artA Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:23:48 +0000 http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ http://zesterdaily.com/politics/202-candy-corn-and-coke "The application of a little basic math reveals an interesting coincidence: The expected revenue from a soda tax and the expected subsidy payments to corn farmers come to almost the same amount--somewhere between $5 billion and $6 billion a year." vl5m2N7x2xG6yGBTn0artA_e5157f98a99a0ac7c5ed191d6ccea385 Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:49:22 +0000 http://www.theagitator.com/2009/08/30/wow-21/ "So while small companies and independent toy makers are getting socked with costly testing requirements, the big toy company whose screw-ups were responsible for the law, who then lobbied for the law, and who then hired a top Hil staffer away to help with its lobbying efforts, was then able to get itself an exemption from the part of the law that’s going to be most expensive for all of its competitors. And the regulatory agency that granted the exception kept it all quiet." vl5m2N7x2xG6yGBTn0artA_3eda1c6c62e42e7be646efced0f3ef33 Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:01:09 +0000 http://www.paleonu.com/panu-weblog/2009/7/7/acetaminophen-and-the-war-on-drugs.html "Your government is here to protect you from too much fun, even if it kills you." vl5m2N7x2xG6yGBTn0artA_cb8d72fb0bf54ca4a7b85ecaff9d1dbd Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:28:20 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/natural-vs-artificial-profit/2009/08/04 "I think it is best to distinguish between profits that are natural and those that are artificial. Profits can be natural in the sense that you participate and you get something out of the effort of more value to you then what you put in (like you bring a food dish to a potluck and have a good time and a diversity of food, so a personal profit in enjoyment and variety). Profits can be artificial if you earn your profits by getting others to pay external costs (example: coal plants producing mercury pollution that harms people downwind) or you make profits by rent-seeking involving creating indefinite artificial scarcities of things that would otherwise be naturally abundant (like by using indefinite copyright to make scarce books that are more than twenty years old or whatever length would be reasonable, if any length of copyright is reasonable today)." vl5m2N7x2xG6yGBTn0artA_3e3f208ede440ea03d4604cba9d6e49c Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:40:11 +0000 http://www.motherjones.com/special-reports/2009/07/totally-wasted "Just who is winning the War on Drugs" A Special Report consisting of several articles. vl5m2N7x2xG6yGBTn0artA_a98527422013c97c8b4da9f23e6363f5 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:58:36 +0000 http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/07/we-bring-fear There are two Mexicos. There is the one reported by the US press, a place where the Mexican president is fighting a valiant war on drugs, aided by the Mexican Army and the Mérida Initiative, the $1.4 billion in aid the United States has committed to the cause. This Mexico has newspapers, courts, laws, and is seen by the United States government as a sister republic. It does not exist. There is a second Mexico where the war is for drugs, where the police and the military fight for their share of drug profits, where the press is restrained by the murder of reporters and feasts on a steady diet of bribes, and where the line between the government and the drug world has never existed. The reporter lives in this second Mexico. vl5m2N7x2xG6yGBTn0artA_5e8c05e2defeb3ed1992d2883cadfb4f Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:55:57 +0000 http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-06-04-marine-schools_N.htm "The Marines are talking with at least six districts — including in suburban Atlanta, New Orleans and Las Vegas — about opening schools where every student wears a uniform, participates in Junior ROTC and takes military classes, said Bill McHenry, who runs the Junior ROTC program for the Marines." vl5m2N7x2xG6yGBTn0artA_f561b739debd6be42b1ae4f2a3865f15 Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:36:39 +0000 http://www.reason.com/blog/show/134537.html Corporatist Matthew Yglesias taken to task for his repetition of "The highly ideological behavior of the business community" mythology. Wal-Mart, and other big businesses, love state intervention -- when it suits their interests. It takes willful ignorance and/or disingenuousness to repeat such mythology about "the business community" having any sort of ideological aversion to state intervention. vl5m2N7x2xG6yGBTn0artA_4ad15b39fb3f2286c6f027c7041217bb Thu, 02 Jul 2009 17:55:53 +0000 http://www.reason.com/blog/show/134470.html "Now you can add another corporate behemoth to the list of supporters of advocating more government involvement in health care: Wal-Mart. Today, the nation's largest retailer released a letter supporting an employer mandate." vl5m2N7x2xG6yGBTn0artA_406a8dedc3cb6fc186cbadeb34b73466 Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:05:50 +0000 http://towardsmutualbenefit.blogspot.com/2009/06/gabb-on-carson.html Reflections on Sean Gabb's review of Kevin Carson's latest book. vl5m2N7x2xG6yGBTn0artA_84e749b5e1a2b27b12f4bf83e8956f62 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:58:29 +0000 http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1086735.html "Once again, the state proved to be deadly negligent. " vl5m2N7x2xG6yGBTn0artA_9e4eac66dd7fcf3216130f6d64a3ac14 Mon, 08 Jun 2009 15:30:44 +0000 http://mises.org/books/historynot.pdf A book about revisionism, "Why American History is Not What They Say" by Jeff Riggenbach vl5m2N7x2xG6yGBTn0artA_33c4fa2acd14ee94e88fb9378d439e90 Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:44:42 +0000 http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm In this Article, I will argue that this is a false dichotomy. Specifically, I intend to establish three points: 1) there is no such thing as a government of law and not people, 2) the belief that there is serves to maintain public support for society's power structure, and 3) the establishment of a truly free society requires the abandonment of the myth of the rule of law. vl5m2N7x2xG6yGBTn0artA_f872b1c25351113d6bf043a8f0819a56 Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:39:41 +0000 http://marketurbanism.com/2009/05/04/public-educations-role-in-sprawl-and-exclusion/ "In summary, locally-funded public education is an engine of geographical segregation, which encourages flight from urban areas, and was a driving motivation for the popular acceptance of exclusionary zoning in newer suburbs. As a result, wealth is consistently concentrated geographically, and housing affordability is at odds with these restrictions of supply intended to exclude poorer people from draining the property tax base." vl5m2N7x2xG6yGBTn0artA_d0ac0f51dc40c86648547ca56c3ae521 Sat, 30 May 2009 19:09:56 +0000 http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2009/05/the-fiscal-crisis-of-the-state.html "I’m reminded of James O’Connor’s The Fiscal Crisis of the State, written in 1973. State spending in a capitalist society, he said, must fulfil two functions: to raise profits, for example by maintaining aggregate demand; and to legitimate the system by ameliorating inequalities. But, he said, these forces for higher spending increased faster than people’s willingness to pay tax. The upshot was a tendency to bigger budget deficits, even in decent economic times." vl5m2N7x2xG6yGBTn0artA_717a4086484708a816f4ed8cc8ea0529 Fri, 29 May 2009 17:08:44 +0000