Brandon Minster
California’s Deficit Costs the Public: Government Sanctioning Theivery
|By Brandon Minster, Staff Writer
We’ve all been there before – short on cash and short on options, but what to do? If you’re law-abiding, your options are limited to selling your plasma or getting a payday loan.
Those with a freer sense of decorum have a wide variety of time-tested vices for which the public will pay handsomely.
But if you really want carte-blanche, there’s no surer way to get it than being the government. As the state of California is proving, only the government gets to steal to cover its needs.
Practical Socialism Explained: Theoretical vs. Practical Uses In the Real World
|By Brandon Minster, Staff Writer
In P.G. Wodehouse’s Leave It to Psmith, Ronald Psmith and Even Halliday have the following exchange:
“Do you mean to say you gave me somebody else’s umbrella?”
“I had unfortunately omitted to bring my own out with me this morning.”
“I never heard of such a thing!”
“Merely practical Socialism. Other people are content to talk about the Redistribution of Property. I go out and do it.”
Detroit’s For Sale, But Nobody’s Buying: Michigan Making Up for Economy by State Sale
|By Brandon Minster, Staff Writer
About once a week, I have a serious discussion with myself that starts with, what do I want to be when I grow up? And usually near the top of my list is auctioneer.
The career combines the best of all other jobs. Fast, unintelligible talking, “do I hear five, five, five, do I hear wharlgurlgarble hamanahamana”, but at a much higher wage than working a fast food restaurant.
Describing people’s shameful character traits, “sold to the obese, balding woman in the back row,” but with more regular gigs than an insult comic.