Voter Memory and Economic Climate Public Choice Voting is a crucial component of any kind of organization that requires the input of multiple people to make a decision. It is essential to get an accurate opinion of the people the decision will affect. Although sometimes our votes don’t accurately represent what we truly want. Short […]
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Why Canceling Student Loans Has Devastating Effects Public Choice | Financial Freedom About 46 million Americans have some student loan debt, totaling roughly $1.75 Trillion. These numbers keep increasing every year. This led to some politicians supporting the idea of canceling government student loan debt. This wouldn’t include any private student loans someone may have
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Unintended Consequences of Sanctions Public Choice Everyone by now has heard about the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. These acts by Putin and the Russian government have prompted a swift response from the rest of the world. The consensus is pretty clear. It’s Russia against the world. There is major pushback against the war and
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Government Incentivizing Being Poor Public Choice At the beginning of your life if you were given a choice of what socioeconomic class you want to be born into almost everyone chooses to not be in the lower class or poor. There is almost nothing good about being poor. Life is Hard It’s a brutal and
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Do Politicians Have Your Best Interests in Mind? Public Choice It is no secret politicians favor minority groups. This can be seen in both the Democrat and Republican parties. For instance, democrats favor environmentalists and republicans favor gun owners. This is not by mistake or happenstance. There is a good reason why they focus their
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Government Control – Freedom vs Safety Public Choice Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.– Benjamin Franklin The debate between freedom and safety has been a long-lasting debate. The question is how much of our freedom do we give up for safety? I have
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Political Business Cycle – Incumbent Advantage Public Choice The Political Business Cycle is an idea based on politicians implementing short-term economic growth policies before the election in order to boost popularity among the incumbent candidate. These policies are predicted to only have short-term positive economic growth and negative long-term economic growth outcomes. Thus, creating a
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Universal Basic Income – The Good, The Bad, The Beneficial Public Choice Lately, there has been an explosion in popularity of the idea of a guaranteed income for every citizen, also known as Universal Basic Income (UBI). It was popularized most recently by the democratic candidate Andrew Yang, the mass unemployment from COVID-19, and the
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Is Voting Worth It? Public Choice Every four years in the United States we have our Presidential election. Millions of people around the country vote to elect who they want as their next President for the next four years. A lot of factors go into people’s decision-making on who to vote for, yet millions still
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