Which is the craziest thing McGinnis said in his Brown Shoes Diary?
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ON PUBLIC EDUCATION: "I don't care if government schools are great and parents are actively involved and the schools even provide efficient use of resources. Their very existence is a moral failure and an abuse of citizens."
ON HEALTHCARE: "Having said all that I did above on healthcare economics, let me assure everyone that I am clueless on the topic."
ON DISCRIMINATION: "It's a simple matter of logic that liberty only exists where people are free to discriminate."
ON EFFECTIVE GOVERNMENT: "[Rick Geist] replied by saying that one of his top priorities is balancing the state's budget, so I made another suggestion: we just shut government down altogether."
ON LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS: "I have pointed out in a previous essay that drug use is essentially peaceful behavior. What my neighbor wants to ingest is none of my business."
ON INCREASING MINIMUM WAGE: "Increasing the minimum wage....(is) advancing a host of other socialist ideas."
ON FUNDING FOR SENIOR TRANSPORTATION: "Sometimes it seems like the entire purpose of government in Pennsylvania is to rob from the young to give to the old."
ON ORGAN DONATION: "First, State Senator Wozniak is trying to make it possible for drivers to go on-line so they can donate their organs. He's doing nothing to allow you to get fair value for your organs, but he's willing to make it easy for you to give them away for nothing. Not only is he complicit in the robbery of donors, but he is complicit in the terrible shortage of available organs."
ON CORPORATE GREED: "Enron employees apparently didn't give their purchase of Enron stock any thought at all. And I'm supposed to feel sorry for them? I don't think so."
ON CHARACTER: "I'm one person who thinks the formally [sic] uncaring, unsympathetic, unempathetic, and unloving Scrooge was more beneficial to society before the visits from the Christmas Ghosts."
ON LEGALIZATION OF DRUGS: "After another day of drug raids and drug busts in Altoona, I made my usual observation...that the war on drugs was lost a long time ago. To continue the persecution and prosecution of people engaged in peaceful behavior is worse than pointless."
ON HIGHER EDUCATION: "So why don’t colleges charge more? And why aren’t students and parents happy with the deal they’re getting?”
ON CHARITY: Burning a $100 bill is the perfect act of charity, better than giving it to the American Cancer Society, AIDS research, the Salvation Army, or an assortment of charities through the United Way.