As the son of a scientist (Mum) and policy maker/economist (Dad), I was fascinated by James Taranto’s Wall Street Journal interview with Erica Komisar on her book “Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters.” Komisar is a self-described New York liberal who supports a year of government mandated maternity leave and […]
The Seattle income tax: Why I’m taking a stand
There are many reasons I chose to become a plaintiff in the Opportunity for All Coalition’s lawsuit challenging the Seattle income tax. Aside from it being illegal under state law, and unnecessary given a recent explosion in city revenues, it’s also not in any resident’s best interest. In fact, the more I find out about […]
New Zealand’s reforms and lessons for Washington
<This is the text of a speech delivered to the Washington Policy Center monthly breakfast on July 27, 2017> Many of you may be familiar with New Zealand’s reforms from an economic perspective, so I’m going to spend more of my talk focused on two other areas: How policies before and after the reforms impacted […]
Charlie Gard and the need for limited government
A few days after our first child was born, our pediatrician commented at a check-up, “Isn’t it funny that last week you’d never even met Penelope, and now you’d lay down in front of a bus for her?” I recalled this as I followed the tragic story of 10-month-old Charlie Gard who suffers from a […]
US healthcare problems—universal healthcare is not the solution
Shortly after Bernie Sanders’s recent and weakly argued Twitter pic in support of universal healthcare, I photoshopped it into a similarly weak counter-argument and Tweeted back. However, it’s a serious topic and deserves a more thorough response. It goes without saying that the U.S. healthcare system is far from perfect. But the focus should be […]
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