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Why is your health insurance tied to your job?
In the 1940s, the U.S. government capped cash wages. To compete for labor, companies started offering untaxed health coverage instead.
In 1954, Congress made it permanent, locking Americans into getting healthcare from their employers forever.
“No one buys from another exactly the same amount sold. Instead, three- or four- or five-way trade – called multilateral trade – occurs, and one country’s imbalance with another country is matched by its opposite balance with still another.”
- Armen Alchian
“Tariff policy beneficiaries are always seen, but its victims are mostly unseen. Politicians love this. The reason is simple. The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots and to whom to give campaign contributions. Most often, the victims do not know whom to blame for their calamity.”
- Walter Williams 😯
"Taught this way, economics is revealed as the story of human cooperation, with division of labour, profit and loss guiding us toward more productive activity." - @ManiBasharzad
“The market is a democracy. Capitalism is the consummation of the self-determination of consumers.”
- Ludwig von Mises
“Trade makes new goods available to a country and so, it would appear, changes tastes and expands wants.”
- Max Corden
“Inveighing against any further tariff increases, [Léon] Say argued that the struggle was not just between protection and free trade, but rather a mere facet of ‘that great combat of the individual against the state.’”
- William Bernstein
Defending freedom requires courage and hard work. The future of a free society depends on what we do today.
"For most economies, especially those in the West, a growth of 9.95% would be celebrated—but in Vietnam, it has caused legislators to go into a panic. Despite achieving the fastest economic growth since 2022, it has fallen short of a target set by Vietnam’s National Assembly in April 2026, of an average annual growth of at least 10% over the next five years.
It is for this reason that Vietnam is banking on the new free trade agreement with the European Free Trade Area (EFTA) to provide the final boost."
- Jake Scott
The EFTA deal could keep Vietnam’s Tiger Economy on track. fee.org/articles/vietnam-ban…
