Guilty by Reason of Insanity

by David Limbaugh

  63. Richards, Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem, 104.

  64. Thomas Del Beccaro, “Trickle Down Economics Does Not Exist,” Forbes, January 4, 2018.

  65. David Weinberger, “Fact-Checking President Obama on ‘Trickle-Down’ Ecomomics,” Daily Signal, December 12, 2011, https://www.dailysignal.com/2011/12/12/fact-checking-president-obama-on-trickle-down-economics/.

  66. Daniel Mitchell, “The Historical Lessons of Lower Tax Rates,” The Heritage Foundation, August 13, 2003, https://www.heritage.org/taxes/report/the-historical-lessons-lower-tax-rates.

  67. William A. Niskanen and Stephen Moore, “Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 261: Supply-Side Tax Cuts and the Truth about the Reagan Economic Record,” Cato Institute, October 22, 1996, https://www.academia.edu/35446555/Cato_Institute_Policy_Analysis_No._261_Supply-Side_Tax_Cuts_and_the_Truth_about_the_Reagan_Economic_Record.

  68. Steven Horwitz, “There is No Such Thing as Trickle-Down Economics,” Foundation for Economic Education, September 24, 2016, https://fee.org/articles/there-is-no-such-thing-as-trickle-down-economics/.

  69. David R. Henderson, “The Troubling Logic of ‘You Didn’t Build That,’ ” Foundation for Economic Education, November 12, 2018, https://fee.org/articles/the-troubling-logic-of-you-didnt-build-that/.

  70. Kevin D. Williamson, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2011), 21–22.

  71. Sowell, Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy, 111.

  72. Patrick Tyrell, “The Empty Promises of Socialism,” The Heritage Foundation, October 26, 2018, https://www.heritage.org/international-economies/commentary/the-empty-promises-socialism.

  73. Sowell, Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy, 111.

  74. John Grgurich, “Who’s More Generous, Liberals or Conservatives?” The Fiscal Times, October 17, 2014, https://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2014/10/17/Who-s-More-Generous-Liberals-or-Conservatives.

  75. Democratic Audit UK, “Republicans Give More to Charity – But Not Because They Oppose Income Distribution,” Democratic Audit, November 17, 2017, http://www.democraticaudit.com/2017/11/17/republicans-give-more-to-charity-but-not-because-they-oppose-income-redistribution/.

  76. Bradford Richardson, “Religious People More Likely to Give to Charity, Study Shows,” Washington Times, October 30, 2017.

  77. Jonathan Gruber and Daniel M. Hungerman, “Faith-Based Charity and Crowd Out During the Great Depression,” (May 2005), NBER Working Paper No. 211332, https://ssrn.com/abstract=723301.

  78. Andy Puzder, “Andy Puzder: If Socialists Really Wanted to Help People They’d Be Capitalists,” Fox News, March 12, 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/andy-puzder-democratic-socialist-fantasies-are-just-that-fantasies-and-if-you-dont-believe-me-ask-venezuela.

  79. Thomas Del Beccaro, “Trickle Down Economics Does Not Exist,” Forbes, January 4, 2018.

  80. Thomas Lifson, “Bernie Sanders Tells Fox News Town Hall That He Won’t Pay His ‘Fair Share’ In Taxes Unless He is Forced To,” American Thinker, April 16, 2019, https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/bernie_sanders_tells_fox_news_town_hall_that_he_wont_pay_his_fair_share_in_taxes_unless_he_is_forced_to.html.

  81. 2 Thess. 3:10. NIV.

  82. 1 Thess. 4:11-12. NIV.

  83. 1 Thess. 5:14. NIV.

  84. Matt. 6:2, 3; Gal. 2:10; 1 Tim. 5:4; Heb. 13:16; James 2:15–16; 1 John 3:17. See John F. MacArthur, The MacArthur New Testament Commentary.… Thessalonians (Chicago: Moody Press, 2002), 307.

  85. MacArthur, The MacArthur New Testament Commentary (Chicago: Moody Press, 2002), 307.

  CHAPTER EIGHT

  1. Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman, Free To Choose: A Personal Statement (Orlando, FLA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1980), 2–3.

  2. Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944), 69.

  3. “Venezuela Election: Maduro Wins Second Term Amid Claims of Vote Rigging,” BBC News, May 21, 2018, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44187838; John Otis, “ ‘Maduro Would Beat Jesus’ Venezuelans Lament Rigged System as Election Looms,” The Guardian, May 19, 2018.

  4. Thomas Del Beccaro, “Dear Pope Francis, Catholicism Owes a Debt to Capitalism,” Forbes, April 22, 2015.

  5. Jay W. Richards, Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem (New York, New York: Harper One, May 4, 2010), 121.

  6. Ronald Reagan, “Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group,” Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1987, 1093.

  7. Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The Problem with Socialism (Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2016), 30.

  8. Lauren Reiff, “The Curious Allegation of Capitalist Greed,” Medium, September 29, 2018, https://medium.com/@laurennreiff/the-curious-allegation-of-capitalist-greed-87633bf6b0c0.

  9. Walter E. Williams, “Socialism Is Evil,” Free Republic, July 28, 2004, http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1252930/posts.

  10. George Bennett, “Democrat Pelosi in Boca: Tax bill is ‘theft,’ bonuses are ‘crumbs,’ ” Palm Beach Post, January 25, 2018.

  11. Mark J. Perry, “Why Socialism Always Fails,” Carpe Diem, (blog), AEI, March 22, 2016, http://www.aei.org/publication/why-socialism-always-fails/.

  12. Ronald Reagan, “Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Group,” Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1987, 1093.

  13. Thomas Sowell, Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy, Fifth Edition (New York, New York: Basic Books, 2015), 19.

  14. Richards, Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem, 21.

  15. Michael S. Heiser, Problems in Bible Interpretation: Difficult Passages (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2017).

  16. Bruce B. Barton and Grant R. Osborne, Acts (Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House, 1999), 69.

  17. “Does the Bible Support Communism?” Got Questions Ministries, https://www.gotquestions.org/communism-Bible.html.

  18. William H. Baker, in A. S. Moreau, H. Netland, and C. van. Engen, Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions (Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2000), 886.

  19. Heiser, Problems in Bible Interpretation: Difficult Passages (Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press, 2016).

  20. Norman L. Geisler & Thomas A. Howe, When Critics Ask: A Popular Handbook on Bible Difficulties (Wheaton, Ill.: Victor Books, 1992), 429–30.

  21. Augustus Hopkins Strong, Systematic Theology (Philadelphia: American Baptist Publication Society: 1907), 894.

  22. Mark L. Ward, Biblical Worldview: Creation, Fall, Redemption (M. L. Ward Jr. & D. Cone, eds.) (Greenville, SC: BJU Press, 2016), 262.

  23. See: Lev. 25:35, Mark 10:21, Eph. 4:28, Phil. 2:4, 1 Tim. 6:18, 1 John 3:17.

  24. Robert A. Morey, A Christian Student’s Survival Guide (Millerstown, PA: Faith Defenders, 2010), 212.

  25. William H. Baker, in A. S. Moreau, H. Netland, & C. van. Engen, Evangelical Dictionary of World Missions, 886.

  26. Ron Nash, “Legalized Theft,” Tabletalk Magazine, March 1998.

  27. Fredrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1944), 38–39.

  28. Hopkins Strong, Systematic Theology, 894.

  29. The Black Book of Communism (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press, 1999).

  30. Walter E. Williams, “Capitalism vs. Socialism,” Creators Syndicate, May 20, 2018, https://www.creators.com/read/walter-williams/05/18/capitalism-vs-socialism.

  31. DiLorenzo, The Problem with Socialism, 16.

  32. Mamta Badkar, “Ten Hyper-Inflation Stories of the 20th Century,” Business Insider, March 19, 2011, http://businessinsider.com/10-hyperinflation-stories-of-the-20th-century-2011-3?op=1.

  33. Thomas J. DiLorenzo, The Problem with Socialism, 7–8.

  34. Maxim Lott, “How Socialis
t Turned Venezuela From the Wealthiest Country in South America into an Economic Basket Case,” Fox News, January 26, 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/world/how-socialism-turned-venezuela-from-the-wealthiest-country-in-south-america-into-an-economic-basket-case.

  35. “Venezuela’s Army Death Squads Kill Thousands – UN,” AP, Reuters, April 7, 2019, https://www.dw.com/en/venezuelas-army-death-squads-kill-thousands-un/a-49477147.

  36. Katy Watson, “Venezuela: The Country That Has Lost Three Million People,” BBC News, December 30, 2018, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-46524248.

  37. Christopher Gage, “It’ll Work This Time,” American Greatness, February 8, 2019, https://amgreatness.com/2019/02/08/itll-work-this-time/; Jamie Nugent and Joshua Curzon, “Venezuela Campaign – 10 Fallacies About the Situation in Venezuela,” Adam Smith Institute, February 3, 2019, https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/venezuela-campaign-10-fallacies-about-the-situation-in-venezuela.

  38. Jamie Nugent, “Venezuela Campaign: A State of Ill-Health,” Adam Smith Institute, September 9, 2018, https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/venezuela-campaign-a-state-of-ill-health.

  39. Jim Wyss, “Once Hailed by the UN for Feeding the Poor, Venezuela Sees Hunger Rate Triple,” Miami Herald, November 12, 2018.

  40. Douglas French, “How Can Venezuela Be So Rich in Resources, but So Low in Supplies,” Christian Science Monitor, April 24, 2012.

  41. Nugent and Curzon, “Venezuela Campaign – 10 Fallacies About the Situation in Venezuela.”

  42. DiLorenzo, The Problem with Socialism, 77.

  43. Stefan Karlsson, “The Sweden Myth,” Mises Daily Articles, Mises Institute, August 7, 2006, https://mises.org/library/sweden-myth.

  44. Johan Norberg, “Swedish Models,” National Interest, January 6, 2006; Williamson, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism, 106.

  45. Karlsson, “The Sweden Myth.”

  46. Ryan Bourne, “Capitalism’s Critics Need to Be Told About Its 200 Years of Success,” UK Telegraph, June 11, 2018.

  47. Thomas Del Beccaro, “Dear Pope Francis, Catholicism Owes A Debt to Capitalism,” Forbes, April 22, 2015.

  48. Will and Ariel DuRant, The Lessons of History (New York, New York: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks: 2010), Kindle location 633 of 1846.

  49. Dierdre Nansen McCloskey, “The Industrial Revolution,” Prudentia, 2008, http://www.deirdremccloskey.com/articles/revolution.php.

  50. Ana Swanson, “Why the Industrial Revolution Didn’t Happen in China,” Washington Post, October 28, 2016.

  51. Kelsey Piper, “Human History, In One Chart,” Vox, November 8, 2018, https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/11/8/18052076/human-history-in-one-chart-industrial-revolution.

  52. Swanson, “Why the Industrial Revolution Didn’t Happen in China.”

  53. Sowell, Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy, 4.

  54. Jeff Charles, “Socialism: Equality of Outcome, Or Poverty and Tyranny,” Liberty Nation, October 3, 2018, https://www.libertynation.com/socialism-equality-of-outcome-or-poverty-and-tyranny/.

  55. Bill Schneider, “Is This Obama’s ‘Malaise’ Moment?” Reuters, June 24, 2014, https://www.reuters.com/article/idIN226475345320140624; Aaron Blake, “The New American ‘Malaise’,” Washington Post, December 12, 2014; Rush Limbaugh, “The Obama Malaise,” The Rush Limbaugh Show, December 12, 2014.

  56. Richard M. Salsman, “President Obama’s Hopeless ‘Malaise’ Moment,” Forbes, November 20, 2011.

  57. Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (M. J. Adler & P. W. Goetz, eds.) Second Edition, (Chicago; Auckland; Geneva; London; Madrid; Manila; Paris; Rome; Seoul; Sydney; Tokyo; Toronto: Robert P. Gwinn; Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 1952, 1990), Vol. 36, 217.

  58. Friedman and Friedman, Free To Choose: A Personal Statement, 2.

  59. Ibid., 24–25.

  60. Sowell, Basic Economics:A Common Sense Guide to the Economy, 11.

  61. Ibid., 13.

  62. Sterling Terrell, “3 Reasons Why Socialism Is Bad,” Thought Catalog, September 20, 2014, https://thoughtcatalog.com/sterling-terrell/2014/09/3-reasons-why-socialism-is-bad/.

  63. Perry, “Why Socialism Always Fails.”

  64. Richards, Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem, 76.

  65. F. A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism (Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1988), 14.

  66. Sowell, Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy,14.

  67. Ibid., 89.

  68. Ibid., 110–11.

  69. Andy Puzder, “Andy Puzder: If Socialists Really Wanted to Help People They’d Be Capitalists,” Fox News, March 12, 2019, https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/andy-puzder-democratic-socialist-fantasies-are-just-that-fantasies-and-if-you-dont-believe-me-ask-venezuela.

  70. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit, The Errors of Socialism, 6.

  71. Ibid., 7–8.

  72. “Fox News Poll 2/13/19,” Fox News, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-2-13-19.

  CHAPTER NINE

  1. Tim Hains, “Ocasio-Cortez: ‘The World Is Going to End in 12 Years If We Don’t Address Climate Change,’ ” video clip, RealClearPolitics, January 22, 2019, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez_the_world_is_going_to_end_in_12_years_if_we_dont_address_climate_change.html.

  2. David Montgomery, “AOC’s Chief of Change,” Washington Post, July 10, 2019.

  3. Javier Blas, “The U.S. Just Became a Net Oil Exporter for the First Time in 75 Years,” Bloomberg, December 6, 2018, https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-06/u-s-becomes-a-net-oil-exporter-for-the-first-time-in-75-years; Hon. Kathleen Hartnett White, “OPINION: What’s in the GND? A Lot of Spending – And Global Ambitions,” Daily Caller, February 7, 2019, https://dailycaller.com/2019/02/07/hartnett-green-new-deal/.

  4. James Conca, “Any Green New Deal Is Dead Without Nuclear Power,” Forbes, May 21, 2019.

  5. Green New Deal Information Sheet, https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/5729035/Green-New-Deal-FAQ.pdf.

  6. Rich Lowry, “Millennial Socialism 101,” Salem News, January 13, 2019.

  7. “Draft Text for Proposed Addendum to House Rules for 116th Congress of the United States,” https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jxUzp9SZ6-VB-4wSm8sselVMsqWZrSrYpYC9slHKLzo/preview.

  8. Eliza Relman, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says her Green New Deal climate plan would cost at least $10 trillion,” Business Insider, June 5, 2019, https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-green-new-deal-cost-10-trillion-2019-6.

  9. Marlo Lewis Jr., “How Much Will the Green New Deal Cost Your Family?” Competitive Enterprise Institute, February 22, 2019, https://cei.org/blog/how-much-will-green-new-deal-cost-your-family.

  10. Clark Mindock, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Claims Capitalism is ‘Irredeemable,’ ” Independent, March 11, 2019, https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/aoc-capitalism-irredeemable-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-south-southwest-sxsw-a8816956.html.

  11. Nicolas Loris, “UN’s Plan on Climate Change: End Capitalism,” CNS News, October 22, 2018, https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/nicolas-loris/uns-plan-climate-change-end-capitalism.

  12. Timothy Cama, “Poll: Majorities of Both Parties Support GND,” The Hill, December 17, 2018.

  13. James Rainey, “More Americans Believe in Global Warming – But They Won’t Pay Much to Fix It,” NBC News, January 24, 2019, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/more-americans-believe-global-warming-they-won-t-pay-much-n962001.

  14. “Is the Public Willing to Pay to Help Fix Climate Change?” The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, http://www.apnorc.org/projects/Pages/Is-the-Public-Willing-to-Pay-to-Help-Fix-Climate-Change-.aspx.

  15. Kevin Dayaratna, Nicolas Loris and David Kreutzer, “Consequences of Paris Protocol: Devastating Economic Costs, Essential Zero Environmental Benefits,” The Heritage Foundation, April 13, 2016, https://www.heritage.org/environment/repo
rt/consequences-paris-protocol-devastating-economic-costs-essentially-zero.

  16. Craig Richardson, “The ‘GND’ Is a Prescription for Poverty,” Washington Examiner, January 28, 2019.

  17. Richardson, “The ‘GND’ Is a Prescription for Poverty.”

  18. Philip Rosetti, “What it Costs to Go 100 Percent Renewable,” American Action Forum, January 25, 2019, https://www.americanactionforum.org/research/what-it-costs-go-100-percent-renewable/.

  19. Nick Loris, “Heritage Expert: The GND is a Raw Deal for the American People,” The Heritage Foundation, February 7, 2019, https://www.heritage.org/press/heritage-expert-the-green-new-deal-raw-deal-the-american-people.

  20. Veronique de Rugy, “Politicians Can’t Get Enough Energy Cronyism,” Mercatus Center, George Washington University, August 17, 2017, https://www.mercatus.org/%5Bnode%3A%5D/commentary/politicians-cant-get-enough-energy-cronyism.

  21. David Shepardson and Bernie Woodall, “Electric Vehicle Sales Fall Far Short of Obama Goal,” Reuters, January 20, 2016, https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-electric-obama-insight/electric-vehicle-sales-fall-far-short-of-obama-goal-idUSKCN0UY0F0.

  22. Susan Ferrechio, “Will Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Green New Deal’ Even Get a Vote?” Washington Examiner, February 11, 2019.

  23. Elias Hubbard, “Senate Democrats Dodge Vote on Green New Deal Resolution,” Click Lancashire, March 26, 2019, http://clicklancashire.com/2019/03/27/senate-democrats-dodge-vote-on-green-new-deal-resolution.html.

  24. Ben Walsh, “Stephanie Kelton Wants You to Rethink the Deficit,” Barron’s, September 13, 2018.

  25. Bob Bryan, “A New Survey Shows that Zero Top US Economists Agreed with the Basic Principles of an Economic Theory Supported by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,” Business Insider, March 13, 2019, https://www.businessinsider.sg/economist-survey-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-modern-monetary-theory-2019-3/.

  26. Josh Mound, “AOC’s 70-% Tax Plan Is Just the Beginning,” Jacobin, January 28, 2019.

  27. Matthew Sheffield, “Poll: A Majority of Americans Support Raising the Top Tax Rate to 70 Percent,” The Hill, January 15, 2019.