Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after … - Thomas Sowell

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.

Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? How would you test for that possibility?

Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost big. There is a lesson in that somewhere but whether Republicans will learn it is another story entirely.

Among the many other questions raised by the nebulous concept of “greed” is why it is a term applied almost exclusively to those who want to earn more money or to keep what they have already earned — never to those wanting to take other people’s money in taxes or to those wishing to live on the largesse dispensed from such taxation. No amount of taxation is ever described as “greed” on the part of government or the clientele of government.