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Thomas Sowell has discussed immigration for decades, distinguishing between legal immigration, illegal entry, and attracting highly skilled talent through programs like the H-1B visa.
His long-standing approach focuses on incentives, economic consequences, and the real-world effects of public policy.
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Capital gains is like eating seeds and getting a smaller harvest. Economic growth (bringing new economic activity into existence) requires investment and the resources needed for investment is capital formation. Capital gains tax (along with other wealth taxes like death duties, property transfer tax and property rates and taxes) all reduce the quantum and availability of capital in the economy. These taxes are mistakes the developed world makes and have no place in any emerging market. These taxes are a direct cause of the persistence of unemployment and its poverty consequence.
Capital gains tax is theft, committed twice against the same dollar.
You earn income. The government takes its cut immediately, in the US its between 22% and 37% depending on your bracket. What remains is yours, after-tax money, already processed through Washington's collection machine. You choose not to spend it. You save it, invest it, buy assets with it. The discipline required to delay consumption is precisely the behavior that funds capital formation across the economy.
Then the asset grows. You sell it. The government appears again, demanding 20% (plus the 3.8% Net Investment Income Tax for higher earners) on the nominal gain, which often includes pure inflation adjustments that represent no real increase in purchasing power whatsoever.
The IRS treats your patience as a second taxable event. The original dollar was already taxed. The "gain" frequently reflects nothing more than the dollar losing value while you held the asset. Murray Rothbard identified this pattern: the state punishes capital accumulation.
Consider a simple case. You invest $50,000 of after-tax earnings in 2016 into an S&P 500 index fund. By 2026, it's worth $115,000. Inflation consumed a meaningful slice of that $65,000 gain. You pay capital gains tax on the full nominal figure regardless.
Capital gains taxation suppresses investment, shrinks the capital pool available for productive enterprise, and forces entrepreneurs to seek financing from a shallower pond. Fewer productive investments get made. Workers carry that cost through lower wages and fewer opportunities. The state expands, while you suffer.
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Your vet isn’t getting a cash bonus for the kibble bag. The system is cleaner than that.
Hill’s, Purina, and Royal Canin fund the nutrition centers, lectureships, and textbooks at the vet schools. Students learn that processed “complete and balanced” diets are the evidence-based standard and that fresh or raw options are risky. After graduation the same companies sponsor the continuing education, send the reps, and stock the clinic shelves. The clinic makes a solid margin on every bag sold. Liability is lower when you recommend the product the manufacturer backs.
No secret handshake required. Just a pipeline that starts in school and ends with the bag on the counter. The dog gets the kibble. The system gets the revenue. Everyone calls it science.
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In 1969 a trial swapped the butter for vegetable oil to save men's hearts, and the men on the oil died of cancer instead.
The Los Angeles Veterans trial. 846 men, eight years, half of them moved from animal fat onto corn, soybean, safflower and cottonseed oil.
Heart deaths went down a little. Cancer deaths went up. 31 in the oil group against 17 on the butter.
The authors noted it, said it was probably chance, and the oil went into every American kitchen anyway.
It was not chance. Rats fed corn oil grow more tumours than rats fed beef fat, and laboratories had known since the 1970s. Linoleic acid, the main fat in seed oil, is what a growing tumour wants.
In 2025 a team at Weill Cornell found exactly why, in human breast cancer. Linoleic acid switches on the growth pathway that drives the most aggressive form of the disease. Saturated fat does not.
The skin cancer story runs the same way. A Sydney doctor found in the 1980s that melanoma patients had more polyunsaturated fat in their skin, and that the fat goes rancid under sunlight, inside you.
The fat in your cells is the fat you ate. Your membranes are built out of the bottle on the counter.
A membrane built from seed oil oxidises. Oxidised fat damages DNA. Damaged DNA is what a tumour is.
Your great-grandfather's cells were built out of dripping, which does not oxidise, because it has nothing for the oxygen to attack.
The guideline took the one fat that behaves itself out of the kitchen and put the one that catches fire in your cells in its place.
Then it called cancer bad luck.
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The Minnesota Coronary Experiment tells the same story. When the unpublished data were recovered, the corn oil diet lowered cholesterol but didn't lower deaths, and every 30 mg/dL drop in cholesterol was linked to a 22% higher risk of death. Lowering a number isn't the same as making people healthier.
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University debate: "Chronic disease is the price of living long enough to get it."
Doctor: "In 1900 the average Briton was dead at 47. Nobody lived long enough to get heart disease. We cured the infections and inherited the rest."
Anthropologist: "Who was dying at 47?"
Doctor: "It's an average."
Anthropologist: "Of what?"
Doctor: "...Babies, mostly. One in seven died in the first year."
Anthropologist: "So a dead baby and a man of 90 average out at 45. Neither of them died at 45. The babies died and everyone else got old."
Doctor: "Fewer got old."
Anthropologist: "A 65-year-old in 1900 had about eleven years left. Now it's about nineteen. Eight years. That's the whole of your argument, and you've stretched it over a century of epidemics like a small tablecloth."
Doctor: "Eight years at exactly the ages the diseases strike."
Anthropologist: "Bowel cancer in the under-50s. Up 3.6% a year in England, falling in the over-65s. Which of those patients lived too long?"
Doctor: "That's a separate trend."
Anthropologist: "Type 2 diabetes in children. Nearly doubled in five years. Did not exist in a British child in 1990. Did the twelve-year-old live too long?"
Doctor: "That's obesity."
Anthropologist: "Obesity used to be a disease of age as well, if you want another one for the shelf."
Doctor: "The rates still rise with an older population."
Anthropologist: "Every rate you've quoted tonight is age-adjusted. A statistician took your excuse out of the numbers before they were printed. They went up anyway."
Doctor: "Heart attacks have always been a disease of age."
Anthropologist: "The first one was described in 1912. Boston was full of 70-year-olds in 1911. Not one of them had a heart attack, because nobody had invented it yet."
Doctor: "You're saying old people didn't get ill."
Anthropologist: "They wore out. They didn't catch a disease at 12 that their great-grandfather never caught at 80. You said people weren't living long enough. The children are living long enough. That's rather the problem."
Moderator: "Time."
Doctor: "Living longer remains the biggest risk factor there is."
Anthropologist: "For dying. You've got the wrong disease."
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France has FREE health care, paid parental leave, paid family leave, FREE child care, FREE preschool, 5 weeks paid vacation, a 35 hour work week, generous unemployment and housing benefits, and heavily subsidized higher education.
Everything the left says they want AND THEY'RE STILL PROTESTING AND BURNING SHIT DOWN.
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When scientists let dogs pick their own food, something surprising happened. The dogs did not reach for the starchy kibble most owners buy. Instead, they built their own meals that looked a lot more like what wolves eat in the wild.
In one careful study, dogs from different breeds were offered several foods at once. Some were high in protein, some high in fat, and some high in carbs. After the dogs had time to learn what each food did, they settled on a clear pattern. About 30 percent of their calories came from protein, 63 percent from fat, and only 7 percent from carbohydrate. The same balance showed up across breeds. They actively avoided the high-carb options and kept going back to the fatty ones. When food was unlimited, they also ate more total calories than their bodies strictly needed—an old “feast or famine” habit that helped wild dogs survive lean times.
A follow-up test that ran longer found the same idea. Dogs started by grabbing the fat-rich food first. Over the days they slowly added more protein, but carbohydrates stayed a tiny part of what they chose. Other work with free-ranging dogs shows they hunt for meat smells even when cheaper scraps are easier to reach.
These studies do not prove every dog should eat only raw meat. They do show that, given a real choice, most dogs still prefer a high-fat, moderate-protein, low-carb mix. That preference lines up with their ancestry far better than the carb-heavy bags sold at most pet stores.
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Oh. My. Gosh.
Direct from Fauci's diary.
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Your stomach acid is stronger than a dog’s or a wolf’s — and it was built to destroy meat.
Most people think dogs and wolves have the toughest digestive systems. After all, they are carnivores that eat raw meat and bone. But the science says otherwise. When scientists measured stomach acid, humans came out with the lowest pH of the three. In one careful study, fasting human stomachs averaged about 1.1, while dogs averaged 1.8. Wolves are estimated around 1–2, but the data on them is limited. Humans consistently show the most acidic stomachs among these animals.
That very low pH is not random. It is the perfect environment for digesting protein. At a pH of about 1.5 to 2, stomach acid does two big jobs. First, it unfolds proteins so they are easier to break apart. Second, it turns the inactive enzyme pepsinogen into active pepsin. Pepsin then cuts the long protein chains into smaller pieces. This works especially well on the proteins found in meat, eggs, and dairy.
Dogs and wolves handle meat fine, but their stomach acid is often less consistently low than ours. Human stomachs stay powerfully acidic in the fasting state and are optimized for the kind of protein digestion that happens when you eat animal foods. The same acid also kills many bacteria that can ride along with food.
In short, the lowest pH stomach acid is best for digesting proteins — and humans have some of the lowest among dogs, wolves, and people. That is not an accident of evolution. It is a digestive system ready for meat.
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Ayer Francia vivió uno de sus días más violentos en décadas. Unas 550.000 personas salieron a la calle contra el alto coste de la vida, la policía detuvo a más de 1.200, hubo 150 agentes heridos y el ayuntamiento de Limoges, con más de 140 años de historia, quedó casi destruido por el fuego. La explicación que más se escucha es la de siempre: la culpa es de la «austeridad» y del «neoliberalismo».
Luis Garicano publicó esta semana los números que desmontan ese cuento. En Francia viven del Estado 30 millones de adultos, entre pensionistas, empleados públicos y perceptores de ayudas, frente a 21 millones que trabajan en el sector privado. El gasto público es el 57% del PIB y el país no cierra un presupuesto equilibrado desde 1974. ¿Dónde está la austeridad?
España va por el mismo camino. Según Garicano, desde 2024 cobran del Estado 18,2 millones de personas, más que los 17,9 millones que trabajan en el sector privado, y la EPA ya cuenta más empleados públicos que autónomos. Gastamos el 45% del PIB y el último superávit fue en 2007.
Me explico. Cuando más de la mitad de los votantes vive del Estado, ningún político se atreve a tocar el gasto, porque recortarlo es perder elecciones. Se paga con deuda y con impuestos al que produce, cada vez produce menos gente y la vida se encarece para todos. En las calles de Francia se pide más Estado para curar lo que causó el exceso de Estado.
Argentina eligió el camino contrario. Milei recortó el gasto primario un 27% en términos reales en su primer año y cerró 2024 con el primer superávit financiero en más de una década. Llevo toda la vida creando empresas en España y en Estados Unidos, y sé que cada empleo privado paga una parte del sueldo de alguien que cobra del Estado. Cuando los que cobran superan a los que pagan, la cuenta no sale.
Ningún Estado puede mantener a más gente de la que lo mantiene a él.
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Premise:
Incentives drive all human behavior.
The corollary:
How to destroy a country:
A vast social security and support system that serves as a magnet for those who would rather not work.
An open immigration policy that does not screen immigrants to determine their ability and willingness to provide for themselves and their families.
An open immigration policy that does not screen for political and/or religious ideologies that are a threat to the country.
Economic incentives large enough to incentivize immigrants on the state dole to have large numbers of children, but insufficient for educated and economically productive mothers to be able to quit to raise a family.
The declining fertility of the most educated and productive women due to their delay to begin a family as a result of their desire and/or need to advance their careers, among other reasons, to live a life they deem consistent with their educational achievements and/or to repay their student debts.
Amnesty programs that give citizenship and voting power to illegal immigrants without consideration of their economic productivity or their threat to the country due to their religious or political ideologies.
The changing demographics and increased population due to the above factors.
The state responding to protests by increasing social support.
The continued failure to punish and hold accountable violent and looting rioters.
Government managed by a massive and growing unelected bureaucracy.
Government fraud, waste, and abuse contributed to ballooning budgets.
Anti-business legislation that makes it difficult for businesses to compete in a global marketplace being disrupted by AI, including restrictions on firing even poorly performing employees.
Overly burdensome, globally uncompetitive, corporate taxation.
Continuous increases in personal taxes to raise funds to provide for the rapidly growing welfare state.
The substantial majority of the tax burden levied on a small percentage of the population.
A growing percentage of the electorate paying no taxes and receiving welfare.
The introduction or threat of a wealth tax including the taxation of unrealized gains, i.e., taxes on paper wealth.
The flight of the most productive business builders and highest taxpayers to lower tax countries with lesser security concerns.
A growing percentage of the electorate voting for candidates that support increased welfare and laws favorable to, and/or that match the cultural and ideological needs and desires of a growing unproductive immigrant population.
The rapid rise in anti-semitism and inadequate efforts to address this hatred.
Increased borrowing by the state to fund the growing social burden.
Higher sovereign interest rates due to all of the above.
The resulting need to reduce expenditures to make the math work.
Increasingly violent protests that make life less livable for the productive and law abiding citizens leading to their accelerated departure.
And so on…
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Massive hat tip @SimonPB - this is social poison. Easy way to reveal the model. Ask every Celeb: put the money you are paid for the gig into the gaming app. Celebs will evaporate - just like the gaming money.
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A year ago, Vice President Vance delivered this warning to Europe about mass migration. The European leaders in the room were stunned and appalled.
In light of recent events, his remarks are worth revisiting. He warned them. They refused to listen.
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This is what happens when multiculturalism, open borders, soft-on-crime policies, and systems that teach people to resent their country’s history collide
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Over the last two days I went on Fox News and Newsmax to warn Americans about what's happening in France. Today, the images speak for themselves.
October 17, 2026. In Marseille, France's second-largest city, a mob smashed through the doors of City Hall and stormed the lobby chanting "It's the revolution, we're taking the Bastille." Shortly before, rioters had trashed a municipal police station, breaking windows and throwing smoke bombs inside. Shops on the main avenue were vandalized and barricades were set on fire. In Paris, masked black bloc crews fired mortar fireworks at police at Place de la République while tear gas filled the square. There were 166 arrests nationwide by midday and more than 600 protests across the country, after weeks of blockaded high schools. The Yellow Vests are back.
Now here's what every American needs to understand. What are these people demanding? More: higher wages, higher pensions, more public spending, more state. That's in a country where the government already spends more than half of everything the economy produces.
This isn't an accident. It's where 45 years of socialism lead. Since 1981, left or right, every French government has grown the state. Macron is just the final, most polished version of the same system.
Socialism doesn't create prosperity. It creates dependency. When people rely on the state for everything, every disappointment turns into anger at the state. And the state cannot allocate capital. It doesn't risk its own money, and it never goes bankrupt when it's wrong. It just borrows more and taxes more. Productivity stalls, wages stagnate and prices rise. Then people take to the streets demanding even more state. The loop feeds itself until it breaks.
America, watch closely. If the Democrats fully embrace socialism, this is the trailer for what comes next. History is accelerating. It took France decades to get here. It won't take you nearly as long.
Vote for less government, never more.
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Nineteen years ago this week @algore was chosen to receive the @NobelPrize for making a science fiction movie about climate. At the awards ceremony he predicted an ice-free Arctic by 2014.
Since then, Arctic sea ice extent has increased 22%.
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