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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.
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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.
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”A people averse to the institution of private property is without the first elements of freedom.”
- Lord Acton ✍🏻
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62% of surveyed adults under 30 have a favorable view of "socialism."
But what does that word mean to them?
Allen Mendenhall on why understanding Gen Z's views on socialism requires more than a headline statistic:
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”Private property is a natural fruit of labor, a product of intense activity of man, acquired through his energetic determination to ensure and develop with his own strength his own existence and that of his family, and to create for himself and his own an existence of just freedom, not only economic, but also political, cultural and religious.”
- Pope Pius XII
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When schools were allowed to compete for pupils, standards rose.
When failing schools faced consequences, they improved.
Harry Phibbs on England's education revolution:
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”For all the quantifiable variables available to modern economics, capitalism is not a technical or scientific system; it is basically a system for diffusing authority and decision-making power, and letting people have what they want.”
- Yuval Levin
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Education reforms that quietly moved England up the global rankings.
Harry Phibbs on what happens when school choice and competition are allowed to work:
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”Viewed as a means to the end of political freedom, economic arrangements are important because of their effect on the concentration or dispersion of power.”
- Milton Friedman 👀
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”Borrowing imposes a hidden burden upon taxpayers in the short run and an explicit burden in the long run, while taxes impose an explicit short-run burden and a more hidden burden in the long run.”
- Richard K. Vedder
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Gen Z didn’t get the future it was promised. But what comes next may look very different.
We’re getting past the usual Gen Z discourse and into the questions underneath it: work, money, faith, ambition, art, and the shape of adult life.
Join Interintellect and @feeonline in Manhattan for an evening with @krishnanrohit, @AllisonSchrager, @FOMO_sacer, @shadihamid, and @JraissatiJorge, moderated by @dgrcosta and @theannagat.
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Europe’s biggest economies aren’t necessarily winning the race for high-skilled jobs. @NimaSanandaji & Klas Tikkanen show how lower taxes and lighter regulation are helping smaller countries pull ahead.
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