Kickstarter Saved Neil Armstrong's Suit

My latest article at The Freeman, which challenges the idea that we must use tax dollars to pay for public goods, is online here.

A brief snippet:

What this Kickstarter campaign effectively says is that the American people have had enough with a Washington bureaucracy that systematically fails to provide the things we care about. We don’t care about politics, grandstanding, or budget tricks. We care about getting things done. Today, we have yet another shining example of how unnecessary government is for getting what we want.

Minimum Understanding of the Minimum Wage

My latest at The Hill on raising the minimum wage:

It’s fairly easy to see the folly of this plan.

Raising wages by legislative decree does not help workers; it hurts them.  When something, anything, becomes more expensive, less of it will be purchased.  We readily understand this in the context of goods and services (if one grocery store raised prices by 70 percent, would you keep shopping there?) but in the context of labor, people become skeptical despite the fact that the evidence is overwhelmingly clear.