by Erick Jones | Oct 25, 2017 | Education, Local Policy, Policy, US Policy
Low Hanging Fruit to Make America Better There a variety of laws and regulations that people have recognized are bad have created feasible alternatives and they still persist in America, these are the low hanging fruit of America that if changed will immediately...
by Erick Jones | Apr 5, 2017 | Local Policy, Policy, US Policy
Public Services, Private Providers There are services that are essential for modern life and crucial for a competitive business. Over the past decades, America has fallen in love with private solutions and have privatized numerous services that have traditionally been...
by Erick Jones | Mar 5, 2017 | Local Policy, Policy, US Policy
The Philosophical Argument for Basic Income The first thing a basic income does is effectively end poverty. For a single person common dollar amounts for a basic income put them only a few thousand dollars below the poverty line. For any other household basic income...
by Erick Jones | Jan 27, 2017 | Local Policy, US Policy
Interesting enough I wrote this article well before Trump was elected, yet it still applies. Conservatism believes in a smaller, more efficient, and financially balanced government. The smaller and less intrusive the government the freer and more successful its...
by Erick Jones | Jul 21, 2016 | Local Policy, US Policy
The state of the United States economy on paper is excellent. The stock market is improving by leaps and bounds, our GDP is exploding, and even unemployment is at a reasonable level. However, if you start talking to the common people you’ll get a different story...
by Erick Jones | Jul 11, 2016 | Local Policy, US Policy
“To prohibit vice is not ordinarily considered within the police power of the state. The object of the police power is to protect rights from the assaults of others, not to banish sin from the world or make men moral.” California Supreme Court 1887 The...