whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. The charity of dumping
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ing at its worst. Trade dumping usually leaves both parties worse-off, since the subsidies are paid for by taxpayers. With services charity, though, the donor gets a pleasant holiday in the sun. ...

2. Everything gets tested but political ideas, they become policy
(Analysis/Analysis)

...etual individual consumer choice. Untested political ideas ... become policy. The first time that grateful taxpayers get to react to some peculiar idea dreamt up by an errant politician, is when it ...

3. No way out; ducking the Eskom bullet
(Analysis/Analysis)

...oor more than anyone else. In order to finance state-owned businesses, government needs to raise money from taxpayers just as the economy takes a dive and puts pressure on salaries. There will be le...

4. Taxing the Future, Confusing the Present
(Analysis/Analysis)

... It was a plea, not only to the new Zuma / Motlanthe alliance within the ANC, but also to South Africa's taxpayers. Behind the glib remarks he was begging taxpayers, "Please keep paying.&quo...

5. Netscape, the Internet and Creative Destruction
(Analysis/Analysis)

...r the power of individual investment. The best they can offer is collective blame shedding and the waste of taxpayers' money on populist causes. As Jacob Zuma said in Davos, "I’m not ...

6. Contradictions resolve in ways you don't intend
(Analysis/Analysis)

...nesses are being selfish and refusing to create them, goes the argument. Pointless jobs can be created with taxpayers' money but taxpayers' money cannot be created without active and successf...

7. 100 Days of Sodom
(Analysis/Analysis)

...Chinese model and invite the world to invest? Creating unnecessary jobs at the expense of the small pool of taxpayers seems an unlikely way to create long-term sustainable development. ...

8. Vouchers and Individual Choice
(Analysis/Analysis)

...s and my spending may take on biblical proportions. Public schools are a public good where politicians spend taxpayers’ money on other people’s children. Schools, frequently, don’t a...