This also gets into the thorny question of "what is education for anyway?". To the extent that "any degree is an indication that you can do something intellectually demanding in a more… (View Post)

The Taiwanese might look at Hong Kong and wonder whether Chinese "fifty year" arrangements are perhaps not worth the paper they're printed on... (View Post)

I suspect that what would happen is that the government would just end up reshuffling what it did with the 95% it did have control over in order to get everything funded. Plus you risk the "donk… (View Post)

I'm not particularly strongly concerned about "principles" in the taxation system. We have to collectively pay for the things we want the state to do, and exactly how we do that is the… (View Post)

As the Commander in Chief of the Continental Army, George Washington acquired a ship and had it renamed the Washington: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Washington_(1775) He wasn't President at… (View Post)