Civilized suicide: Death by a thousand social programs

A remarkable young student in my Sellinger Scholars class took on the topic of destructive if well-intentioned personal taxation and wealth distribution policies, producing the following PowerPoint presentation for the 2013 IBAM conference.

She was a special student, one that I remember in part because she was also an NDP alum and runner and she sat next to -- in alphabetical order -- Thurman Van Riper, the Loyola soccer goalie and seemingly a full foot taller than Victoria -- Tori. She was also one of those silent capitalists, writing me the most thoughtful and heartfelt letter once the class had ended, to thank me for allowing her to feel legitimate about her feelings about business, capitalism, free markets and all the things that were quickly becoming unacceptable beliefs on a college campus, even though I was not aware of just how bad it was or, worse, how much even 'more worse' it would become in the next six years, before I left academe, an institution and a life that had become sadly unrecognizable. American colleges have lost their purpose and their souls through the creation of an inexplicable newfound conscience, one that converts colleges from educational institutions to social engineering experiments, based on half-baked, illogical and unproven or disproven theories of America.

Civilized suicide IBAM 2013.pptx

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