And now for something completely different, let’s ask ourselves the question: DO YOU REALLY NEED ALL THAT EDUCATION? Arnold Kling doesn’t necessarily think so. Rather, education just separates the “wheat from the chaff. ” There’s a great debate going on between a some economists over at Econlog.com. Their question? Does more education endows more benefit, or is […]
Do you really need all that education?
June 24, 2011 by Daniel Burton
Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: Arnold Kling, Brigham Young, Bryan Caplan, competition, Dropping out, Economics, economist view, Education, high school, Intelligence quotient, Ivy League, signal theory, Standardized test, University of Utah
The legal challenges to the health care bill
March 24, 2010 by Daniel Burton
Apparently, there is some question about the legality of the bill recently (as in yesterday) signed into law by President Obama. I’ve already discussed the questionable procedures used to pass it in the House. But what about the bill itself? Is it legal? Is it constitutional? Let me just say at the outset that rational […]
Filed Under: Constitutional Law, Government, SCOTUS Tagged With: 10th Amendment, Alabama, Balkin, Bartlett, Capitation clause, Chemerinsky, Colorado, Commerce Clause, constitutionality, economist view, federalism, Florida, guarantee clause, health care reform, Idaho, individual mandate, insurance, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, New York Times, Pennsylvania, SCOTUS, South Carolina, South Dakota, state sovereignty, Supreme Court, taxes, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington
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