$122 for Thai takeout?
That’s what’s happened in Seattle, after politicians forced a high minimum wage for DoorDashers.
Now customers order less food, and drivers get less work.
Government wage controls ALWAYS fail. Here’s more from John Stossel, describing how government regulations broke the gig work economy.
I’m old. I want to slow my deterioration.
Peptides might help. Creatine and protein powder made me stronger. Now people say peptides would do even more!
But my government says I can’t have them…
Why? Don’t I own my body? Why do bureaucrats get to decide?
Here’s more from John Stossel, who talks about the FDA’s ban on peptides and why many Americans simply buy them illegally from the Chinese black market.
Politicians say they can “improve” the economy.
They impose minimum wages, wealth taxes, more spending on the needy.
But their social engineering makes things worse.
Here economist Don Boudreaux explains why “…we prosper more, the more economically free we are.” Boudreaux is co-director of the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Here’s more from John Stossel.
Want to help special needs kids?
Louisiana bureaucrats say you may not, unless you prove to them that you’re needed.
I reported on a social worker who sued Louisiana because they told her she wasn’t “needed.”
Four years later, they STILL won’t let her, so now she helps kids by HIRING them at Chubbies, her new restaurant!
Here’s more from John Stossel.
Ben Franklin warned: America has “a republic, if you can keep it.” If! He wasn’t sure the great experiment would last.
I ask Stossel TV guests, how did we make it to 250 years? Americans “went out into the untamed wilderness and established towns and cities that really didn’t have to lean on a central government in order to function.” says Linnea Lueken of Heartland Institute. That self-reliance made America successful.
Unfortunately, today, people say, “Problem? There ought to be a law!” But the more government “fixes” things, the more control politicians have over us, and the less freedom we have. That’s not what the founders wanted.
What really makes America thrive? Ron Paul, Steve Forbes, Jennifer Grossman, Grover Norquist and others explain in my video above. Here’s more from John Stossel, focusing on how liberty, property rights and limited government built the freest nation in history.
Socialists want more government control over the economy.
But you can’t plan innovation.
“Always trying to find new things,” says Steve Forbes, “that’s how you get a higher standard of living.”
Here, John Stossel offers his take on why capitalism is the ONLY system that works.
A data center uses as much power as a city!
So people want to stop them. But that’s dumb.
“Electricity replaces human labor and allows us to do more and better things,” says Paige Lambermont of the Competitive Enterprise Institute.
Here’s why we need MORE data centers, not fewer. Here’s more from John Stossel.
Zyns are SAFER than smoking.
But now, some states tax them the SAME as cigarettes. Some as high as 95%!
That’s just dumb.
“If you make the safer alternative more expensive,” Guy Bentley of the Reason Foundation explains, “more cigarettes will be sold.” Here’s more from John Stossel.
