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	<title>Rise of Reason &#187; Economy</title>
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		<title>Creative Destruction</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/creative-destruction/604/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
		
		
		
		Freedom creates optimal efficiencies because it demands the best from people and the best is always the outcome.  However, one of the byproducts of efficiency is creative destruction.
Take, for example, the typewriter.  At the height of the typewriter industry there were two notable typewriter manufacturers (there were more than two, but I am only referring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Glimmers of Hope in the CA Special Election: The Vote Heard Around the World</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/vhatw/579/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 07:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Moody</dc:creator>
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		We can hope that history records today as the start of the tax revolt of 2009 with the Vote Heard Around the World in San Francisco County.
For those of you who are unaware, today, May 19, 2009, the state of California held a special election with a bunch of propositions to increase fees and taxes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware Lest the Rhetoric of Liberalism Be Its Shroud</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/beware-lest-the-rhetoric-of-liberalism-be-its-shroud/574/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/beware-lest-the-rhetoric-of-liberalism-be-its-shroud/574/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 20:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Moody</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.riseofreason.com/?p=574</guid>
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		Friedrich Hayek in The Road to Serfdom warned us that the road to fascism and serfdom is paved with liberal (note: “liberal” here in the classical sense of the word – of and pertaining to freedom) rhetoric, just as the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
According to Hayek, it was De Tocqueville who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Whatever You Tax, You Get Less Of</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/whatever-you-tax-you-get-less-of/485/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/whatever-you-tax-you-get-less-of/485/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Daniel Moody</dc:creator>
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		One of the greatest lessons of economics that is simple, yet so often misunderstood, is something that Art Laffer put to me very succinctly: “Whatever you tax, you get less of.”
In general, people seem to understand this.
We tax cigarettes because, at the margins, less people will smoke if smoking costs more. We, as a society, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Critical Thinking: The best option</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/critical-thinking-the-best-option/454/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/critical-thinking-the-best-option/454/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nichole Adrian</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://riseofreason.com/?p=454</guid>
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		The process of critical thinking is far too easily overlooked among the people of the United States.  It is especially crucial to use critical thinking in times like this when the freedom for which our country stands for is being jeopardized. It is our responsibility as citizens to be concerned with the decisions which are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From freedom to serfdom</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/from-freedom-to-serfdom/416/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 23:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		US House approves stimulus plan
Link to Story
Just like that, nearly $800 billion is taken away from the American people and redistributed by a small group of people that know nothing more than you or me; they probably know a good deal less than you or me.  Much to the celebration of most media outlets and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions Answered: Part 7</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/413/413/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 16:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>williamboyes</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.riseofreason.com/?p=413</guid>
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		Recently I was asked a series of questions by a journalist wishing to write an article about the nation’s current economic situation.  What follows in this article and others following is one of those questions and my answer to it.
How bad is the situation really?  Certainly that’s an important factor to consider when judging the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions Answered: Part 6</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/questions-answered-p6/409/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>williamboyes</dc:creator>
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		Recently I was asked a series of questions by a journalist wishing to write an article about the nation’s current economic situation.  What follows in this article and others following is one of those questions and my answer to it.
Is it important to consider the plan’s ROI?  How is that measured?
For the private sector there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Questions Answered: Part 5</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/questions-answered-5/405/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/questions-answered-5/405/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>williamboyes</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.riseofreason.com/?p=405</guid>
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		Recently I was asked a series of questions by a journalist wishing to write an article about the nation’s current economic situation.  What follows in this article and others following is one of those questions and my answer to it.
When talking about government spending (and tax cuts, for that matter), is it important to maintain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>American Fear</title>
		<link>http://blog.riseofreason.com/american_fear/399/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.riseofreason.com/american_fear/399/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>J.P. Arendt</dc:creator>
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		&#8220;But the risk of doing nothing, the risk of the security of this country being jeopardized at the hands of a madman with weapons of mass destruction far exceeds the risks of any action we may be forced to take.&#8221;
George Bush, 2-25-2003
No weapons of mass destruction were found and virtually no evidence was found that [...]]]></description>
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