About: Roy Cordato

VP for research and resident scholar at the John Locke Foundation

Recent Posts by Roy Cordato

Why I am not a Republican–reason # 1-800-555-DUMB

One chamber of the Louisiana General Assembly is controlled by Republicans and the person who did us all a great favor and decided not to run for president, their governor Bobby Jindal, is also a GOPer. (HT Jon Sanders)

Obama slaps Shuler and Hagen in the face

I heard on the radio this morning a quote from Obama’s speech in Asheville yesterday where he told the crowd that they weren’t being represented in Washington these days. Last I looked, two thirds of Asheville’s representatives in DC are Democrats. I guess Obama feels that Heath Shuler and Kay Hagen aren’t doing their jobsContinue Reading

Greed and altruism in the eyes of a progressive

Greed is making lots of money by providing goods and services that other people want. Altruism is the desire to coercively transfer what the greedy have received to to those who have provided nothing that other people want. If it happens to be oneself, all the better.

You might be a progressive if…

…you want to preserve open space so it can ultimately be paved over with solar panels and wind turbines.

You might be a progressive if…

…you hate corporate greed, hate inequality, but love government force.

How to demagogue Herman Cain’s 9 9 9 plan

Focus strictly on the 9% sales tax as regressive and a tax increase without ever mentioning that the plan would eliminate the the Social Security and Medicare taxes which is progressive and a tax cut. While I have mixed feelings about the plan (most of my concerns are public choice related not economic) it isContinue Reading

When is a heartbeat not a heartbeat

When a pro-abortion advocate congressperson has to refer to it during a congressional debate.

You gotta’ love James O’Okeefe

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