DEI Required: 67% of U.S. major Universities Mandate ‘Diversity’ Indoctrination

If I were young again, then I would have a tough choice at which University to study!

"More than two-thirds of America’s major universities are prioritizing indoctrination in “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) ideology over real education.

That’s the bracing conclusion of a new report finding that 67 percent of major universities across the country require students to take courses in DEI—an ideology that promotes race-based discrimination—just to graduate. But the Goldwater Institute has a solution to restore institutions of higher learning to their core educational purpose: the pursuit of truth through the creation and dissemination of knowledge."

DEI Required: 67% of Universities Mandate ‘Diversity’ Indoctrination

Shame on these universities! (Source)

The Virtue of Pride by Timothy Sandefur (Goldwater Institute)

Very recommendable! Great speech! Let the Liberty Bell ring! About individualism!

New Hope for Patients: Goldwater Institute Expands Right to Try in Nevada

Good news! The right to try e.g. new medications or medical treatments should be expanded beyond terminally ill patients! It is understandable that terminal ill patients were the first group for which to introduce this new right, but other patients deserve it too!

"Nearly 10 years ago, a tidal wave of patient-centric healthcare reform began to sweep America when Colorado became the first state to enact the Right to Try, a groundbreaking Goldwater Institute law that allowed terminally ill patients to seek potentially lifesaving treatments without begging the federal government for permission. Goldwater would go on to enact Right to Try in 40 more states and, in 2018, at the federal level. Now, a new wave of reform has begun as Nevada today became the second state to adopt Goldwater’s Right to Try for Individualized Treatments, which extends the Right to Try to cutting-edge, highly specialized treatments that are tailor-made for each individual. ..."

New Hope for Patients: Goldwater Expands Right to Try in Nevada

Goldwater Institute Frees Texas Higher Education from Radical DEI’s Tentacles

Headline of the day! Bravo Goldwater Institute and Manhattan Institute!

"Radical, racist political ideologies are crippling higher education, but the Goldwater Institute is showing the country how to rein in the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) regime. This week Goldwater enacted a powerful reform in Texas that completely defunds the bloated apparatus of DEI administrators currently swarming the state’s public colleges and universities.
Every year, “woke” bureaucrats divert millions of dollars and thousands of man-hours away from academic enrichment and toward politicized, race- and gender-based DEI programming. That’s why the Goldwater and Manhattan Institutes released a landmark reform earlier this year, “Abolish DEI Bureaucracies and Restore Colorblind Equality in Public Universities,” that fully eliminates all DEI offices in public higher education. ..."

Goldwater Frees Texas Higher Ed from Radical DEI’s Tentacles

The patient right to try advanced individualized medical treatment before government approval

Recommendable!

"... Patient empowerment, wherein patients gain greater knowledge of and control over important healthcare decisions, is only possible where those options and choices exist. And when the scientific knowledge and technology do exist, patients who are under their doctor’s care and following medical recommendations should never be forced to beg the government for permission to seek treatment or be blocked from it entirely. ...
Government rules, regulations, and red tape are too often completely out of step with the promise of 21st-century medicine. ...
This extends well beyond therapeutic treatments. Take, for example, Best Buy’s recent announcement that the company is partnering with Atrium Health to expand its hospital at-home model that it piloted during the pandemic. Patients who are transitioning from the hospital back to their homes or who just need monitoring and support can now receive these services remotely from the comfort of their home, thanks to modern technology. ..."

Policymakers must do away with our outdated healthcare regulatory system

Freedom’s Furies: Three Women Who Sparked a Revolution

Very recommendable! Timothy Sandefur mentions a lot of interesting stuff! Unfortunately, this is only an audio and its monoaural!

"In Freedom’s Furies, Sandefur explores the three women’s friendship, the ideas they shared and disagreed about, and the influence they had on the next generation of freedom-oriented intellectuals.

As Sandefur explained, Peterson, Lane, and Rand helped to preserve and advance the cause of individualism at a time when that idea was under attack as never before."

Goldwater Institute: Breaking Down Barriers to Work in the United States

Good and long overdue idea! Like the Right to Try initiative this is another worthy cause for the Goldwater Institute!

Other Western countries suffer from similar regulations!

"... about one in four jobs in America requires an occupational license — a government permission slip to work. ..."

This is totally unamerican! Why did this even happen/evolve in the United States, in the land of the free?

"... No matter how qualified someone is, Americans must re-apply for permission to work when they move to a new state. That’s a costly and unnecessary barrier for countless Americans to earn a living. ...
The average military family moves every two to three years ... And for military spouses, these frequent relocations can mean major disruptions in their careers. ..."

Breaking Down Barriers to Work - Goldwater Institute Ensuring Americans Are Free to Work, No Matter Where They Live

Violence Rages in Chicago. Marine Sues for Right to Bear Arms

About time! The Illinois harassment of gun owners called FOID (Firearms Owners Identification card) is void and unconstitutional!



"This week, a former Marine named D’Andre Bradley teamed up with the Goldwater Institute to take a stand. On Monday, he and three other Chicago-area citizens filed a lawsuit against the state of Illinois in response to the government’s failure to issue the licenses it requires to buy or possess a firearm. "



Violence Rages in Chicago. Marine Sues for Right to Bear Arms. – In Defense of Liberty

Contra Education Savings Accounts

Posted: 9/24/2014

Trigger

Just came across this article “GOLDWATER INSTITUTE’S WORK ON EDUCATION SAVINGS ACCOUNTS NAMED 2014 TEMPLETON FREEDOM AWARD FINALIST” to remind me that I had planned to blog about this pet project of the Arizona Goldwater Institute for some time.

The Cons

1. The fundamental critique is that the income tax code should not be complicated. Any special provisions like education savings accounts add to the complexity and provide extra jobs  for tax advisors
2. Another fundamental critique is that the tax code should be strictly limited to providing government revenues without any welfare, etc. tax expenditure provisions.
3. Lower the tax rates! Period! Then individuals or families can freely decide how much of their income they want to dedicate to the education of their children. In Arizona specifically, abolish the sales tax!
4. How many different retirement savings accounts are available in the personal income tax code? Too many!
5. Besides retirement savings accounts we also have already health savings accounts
6. What is next?

Confiscatory Taxation: Spain Raises Value Added Tax To 21% By September 2012

It’s Madness

Given the dire economic conditions, it’s insane to raise the value added tax from 18% to 21%. That is a 17% increase. Only two years ago, in July 2010, the previous, socialist government raised it from 16% to 18%.

Spain’s government justifies such an increase with the absurd argument that they are only bringing their VAT tax rate in line with the rest of the European Union. Yes, it is true the VAT tax rate in Germany is 19%, in France it is 19.6%, and in Italy it’s 21%. However, this is typical big government absurdity, when my neighbor raises taxes then me too. By this twisted logic we soon would see VAT tax rates in the 30-40% range. If businesses in the EU would do this kind of price fixing, they would be suit.

Confiscatory Taxation And The Laffer Curve

The top personal income rate is 43% in Spain, the corporate tax rate is 30%. Thus, besides high VAT taxes, Spain is a high tax country.

To use an exaggerated and oversimplified example, the average Spaniard employee pays about 30% in income taxes and soon 21% taxes on everything he or she buys. That is a combined taxation of over 50% of hard earned money. This example does not even include payroll taxes etc.

Any taxation that reaches or exceeds 50% of one’s income is legalized confiscation or theft by big government. Laffer curve analysis strongly suggests that revenue will rather decline in such a high tax environment. Citizens are no fools.

Revealing Exemptions To VAT

I do not know all the details, but the tourism sector enjoys an exemption from VAT in form of a considerably reduced VAT rate of currently 8%, which the new, conservative government now intends to raise to 10%.

Why are there such exemptions like tourism and also for basic foodstuff (VAT rate of 4% in Spain)? One easy answer is that big government knows exactly that tax rates as high as 20% are confiscatory and abhorred by the people, not to mention bad for business. Or is it just a clever move by big government to prevent riots in the street?

A Warning For The USA

In the US, we find a lively discussion of introducing some kind of consumption tax. Even conservative think tanks like the Goldwater Institute here in Arizona are in on this misguided policy advice.

To put it very simply, a domestic consumption tax cannot be implemented without abolishing the personal income tax first. Otherwise, our greedy big government politicians see $$$ signs and revenue.