In a recent column in the Baltimore Sun (“Baltimore Can’t Live with This Living Wage Bill” July 20, 2010, Sun, p. 13) Marta H. Mossburg is critical of a proposal before the Baltimore City Council to raise the city minimum wage to a “living wage.”
Mossburg announces that this bill, if passed, will function “like recent income and other tax hikes” which are “no different.”
Mossburg denounces the so called “entitlement culture” which, she says, has “blatantly failed to provide a rich thriving city.”
Mossburg denounces the so called “entitlement culture” which, she says, has “blatantly failed to provide a rich thriving city.”
This Sun columnist has no qualifications as an economist. Her background is in journalism. Yet she feels an entitlement, despite a lack of qualifications, to discuss the economic factors that the mayor and city council of Baltimore must contend with on a daily basis.
Is there such a think as a Right Wing Entitlement? Yes indeed.
Mossburg is affiliated with not one but two right wing non-profits, with libertarian tendencies, whose funding sources and accolades include the Cato Institute, the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation, and - no surprise here - Robert Ehrlich, when he was governor.
Mossburg is affiliated with not one but two right wing non-profits, with libertarian tendencies, whose funding sources and accolades include the Cato Institute, the Milton and Rose D. Friedman Foundation, and - no surprise here - Robert Ehrlich, when he was governor.
If Mossburg does not use the space give to her by the Sun to denounce “tired liberal ideas that have not worked” she would lose her extreme Right wing perch.
Right wing non-profits, that require no actual economics credentials of their "experts," fund two separate perches for this entitlement bird to chirp libertarian and right wing rhetoric – as if eight years of budget-busting Bush and four years of me-too Ehrlich offer a road map for Baltimore City. No thanks.
