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Today is the centenary of the death of
Alfred Russel Wallace the man who introduced the theory of evolution by means
of natural selection and mutation, of course!
Who? Alfred Russel Wallace! Wait a
minute! That was invented by Charles Darwin, wasn’t it?
Sit down, while I tell you a tale.
Alfred Russel Wallace was born on
January 8th 1823, so he was younger than the more famous Darwin. Unlike Darwin,
he was not born into wealth and privilege. He was born in the small Welsh
village of Llanbadoc, but grew up in London, Hertford, and then Neath. When he
began to travel the world as a naturalist, he did so at his own expense, often
collecting specimens to order to send back to Britain, in order to make enough
money for his expeditions.
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By Walter E. Williams professor of economics at George Mason
University
There’s more to the deceit and dishonesty about Social Security and Medicare discussed in my recent columns. Congress tells us that one-half (6.2 percent) of the Social Security tax is paid by employees and that the other half is paid by employers, for a total of 12.4 percent. Similarly, we are told that a Medicare tax of 1.45 percent is levied on employees and that another 1.45 percent is levied on employers.
The truth of the matter is that the burden of both taxes is borne by employees. In other words, we pay both the employee and the so-called employer share.
There’s more to the deceit and dishonesty about Social Security and Medicare discussed in my recent columns. Congress tells us that one-half (6.2 percent) of the Social Security tax is paid by employees and that the other half is paid by employers, for a total of 12.4 percent. Similarly, we are told that a Medicare tax of 1.45 percent is levied on employees and that another 1.45 percent is levied on employers.
The truth of the matter is that the burden of both taxes is borne by employees. In other words, we pay both the employee and the so-called employer share.
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By John Podhoretz
People are puzzled: Why would Barack
Obama have lied about how wonderfully everything was going to go with ObamaCare
when officials in his administration knew perfectly well that disaster was
going to strike?
In one sense, the answer is simple: At
the time, just before Oct. 1, Republicans were insisting ObamaCare be delayed
or defunded. The president and his team weren’t going to give the enemy the
satisfaction of agreeing — or the potent ammunition that would have come from a
rueful admission the system wasn’t ready.
Today, a bipartisan agreement to
delay ObamaCare seems like it would have been a pretty good deal. It didn’t
look that way at all in the last two weeks of September. But there’s a deeper reason he and his people lied: They did it because
they could. They did it because nearly five years in the White House had
given Obama and his team confidence they would not face the music and they
could finesse the problems until they got fixed.
Consider the events that would have
been unprecedented scandals in a Republican administration — with teams of
reporters digging and scratching daily at every nook and cranny in every
bureaucratic corridor — that have instead been covered dutifully but with
relatively little passion and almost no follow-up. Why? Because it would have
hurt Obama, that’s why.
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