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** FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2019
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The impossibility of any individual or small group conceiving of all the possibilities, let alone evaluating their merits, is the great argument against central governmental planning and against arrangements such as professional monopolies that limit the possibilities of experimentation.
– Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom ([link removed]) [1962]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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December 6, 2019
Medicare and Medicaid Destroyed Healthcare ([link removed])
In a December 1 Washington Post article entitled “Yes, Americans are Feeling the Squeeze. It’s Coming from Health Care,” Post columnist Robert Samuelson points out, “In the early 1960s, before Medicare and Medicaid, which were enacted in 1965, health spending was about 2 percent of federal outlays. Now it is nearly one-third, at $1.3 trillion.” Samuelson goes on ...
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Socialism and the Green New Deal are Economically Impossible ([link removed])
by Richard M. Ebeling
The Future of Freedom Foundation
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by Adam Mossoff
Washington Times
I Was Once a Socialist. Then I Saw How It Worked. ([link removed])
by David Brooks
New York Times
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My Friend and I Both Took Heroin. He Overdosed. Why Was I Charged with his Death? ([link removed])
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Washington Post
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The Future of Freedom Foundation
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The Impossibility of Negative Rates ([link removed])
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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
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The Campaign To Lie America Into World War II ([link removed])
by Hunter DeRensis
American Conservative
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