Matt Rothchild

Economic hardship

People are hurting; things do not get better for them, despite the artificially cheery lies fed to you by your wicked foes in mass media. Making ends meet has become the most difficult in recent memory. Unheard of numbers of...

A proper understanding of tax policy

Here we go again. The Minnesota Legislature and the United States Congress have begun their 2011 sessions. With economic malaise still everywhere and not soon departing, elected officials will propose endless solutions to our economic problems. One of the most...

How government destroys things to ease their takeover: health care

Even though a version of health care reform passed, it appears that its future still promises to be one of battle, discord, and other such pains. Opponents of the law that passed clamor to repeal the law and return to...

How government destroys things to ease their takeover: personal finance

There was once a time in the United States and Minnesota when somebody could work all their life, save money during that life, and that money still being worth as much many years later as it was the day it...

Abolish the TSA

Chaos, indignity, violation, indecency; all of these have resulted from government’s supposed efforts to prevent chaos, indignity, violation, and indecency. And all of these iniquities come to every person traveling by air in the United States—even...

How government destroys things to ease their takeovers: transportation

For a number of years, considerable discussion has taken place about constructing a high-speed railroad from the Twin Cities to Chicago. Though the benefits of such a train over flying the same route are nonexistent in many ways (90...

Beware the Standard Liberal

Here in Minnesota and all over the country, there are many fractious groups who employ sleight-of-hand and trickery to con people into supporting their causes. Frequently, these groups win support by pretending to advocate for things that sound...

Beware the Standard Conservative

Here in Minnesota and all over the country, there are many fractious groups who employ sleight-of-hand and trickery to con people into supporting their causes. Frequently, these groups win support by pretending to advocate for things that sound...

Scary Republican spending cuts

In the wake of the results of Election Day 2010, the fear mongering of those who were defeated is already out in full force. Newspaper opinion pages throughout Minnesota and the rest of the country are replete with one doomsday...

On Republican Party followthrough and consistency

The dust has settled and the victors in the 2010 elections are the Republican Party and its candidates. Now that their celebrator fervor has died down, the time has come for serious examination of this party’s positions, ideas...

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