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How Did Stacey Abrams Get So Rich?
Somehow, she's made a small fortune since running and losing her race for Georgia governor.
Bernie's Conspiracy Theory
Bernie Sanders is the most prominent conspiracy theorist in America. He runs around the country saying that the economy is "rigged" by what he calls "the billionaire class." Sanders doesn't mean this metaphorically. He's dead serious. As he put it in his speech at Liberty University a couple of months ago, our economy is "designed by the wealthiest people in this country to benefit the wealthiest people in this country at the expense of everybody else."
Doing for Yourself
A recent New York Times headline read, "Raising Taxes on the Wealthiest Would Pay for Bold Plans." The story says that by soaking the rich "the government could raise large amounts of revenue ... while still allowing them to take home a majority of their income." Nowhere in the story, nor in the endless promises of Democratic presidential candidates, is there a single word about whether more government spending will produce the promised outcomes.
Why Are Married Couples With Kids Wealthier Than Other Americans?
When the Census Bureau recently released its 2014 data on household income in the United States, the numbers once again pointed to a basic trend that this nation's liberal political and cultural elite has no interest in publicizing. Married people with children generally do better financially than other Americans.
Wealth, Poverty and Politics
Dr. Thomas Sowell, my colleague and friend, told me several years ago that he wasn't going to write any more books, but that was two books ago, and now he has just published his 45th. The man writes with both hands, as can be seen from his [website](http://tsowell.com), which lists his 45 books, 19 journal articles, 71 essays in periodicals and books, 34 book reviews, and occasional columns written in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Star, Newsweek, The Times (Britain) et al. Plus, he writes a semiweekly column for Creators Syndicate.
The New Left: Envy, Resentment and Hate
Bernie Sanders is angry. Who is he angry at? Rich people. Why rich people? That's not clear. At Liberty University, Sanders complained about a small number of people who have "huge yachts, and jet planes and tens of billions" while others "are struggling to feed their families." In Madison Wisconsin, Sanders called for a "political revolution against greed."
The FDR Model for Buying Presidential Elections
Redistributing Wealth and Entitlements for Votes
Liberty: Earned v. Inherited
The character deficit of inheritance-welfare liberals -- those who were raised dependent on inheritance rather than self-reliance -- is all but indistinguishable from the character deficit of those who depend on state welfare.