UNSK:
Hey I hear you about the UCLA tuition. Both my wife and I attended UCLA, ’79 and ’84 when our son applied last year I was in shock at how much tuition had gone up. Fortunately for us he was accepted to the Naval Academy. In any even the point I was trying to make was that Prof. Sowell, one of my prof’s at UCLA had said that the median income number is office because it is family income and family size has gotten smaller therefore the per person income has increase. Significantly as Leo Linbeck III pointed out in post “17″ above.

We all wish it had gone up more but bending the number to try and prove our argument is, I believe, unhelpful.

The best argument for reduced government is that government subsidy of bad cultural traits keeps people from making necessary changes in their behavior and as a result they stay poor. You get more of what you subsidize and less of what you tax. Most conservatives seem to have a very hard time making this argument without sounding racist.

Greg Marquez
goyomarquez@earthlink.net