TPPF Poverty/Prosperity Summit: Poverty and it's Causes (Panel 2)

"Open your mouth, judge righteously,
And plead the cause of the poor and needy."
Proverbs 31:9

Stephen F. Austin Hotel -- TPPF's is Prosperity and Poverty summit continues; the second panel is on public policies than help move people from poverty to prosperity:

Broadcast live streaming video on Ustream

Highlights:

• Chuck Devore (TPPF):
• Poverty rate is based on cost of food, which has come down over 50 years.
• Factored for cost of living, California has the highest poverty rate in country.
• Texas lowest among big states.
•  Texas has more jobs and lowest poverty among big states
• Go figure.

•  Jeff Rowes (Institute for Justice):
• 30% of Americans need permission from the government to work.
• In the real world, special interests with time and money bend the rules to their advantage
• eg. African hair braiders and Steel Tariffs
• State of Louisiana shutting down monks making caskets.
• Public action for private profit is illegitimate, and it's not judicial activism for courts to strike it down.
• Appoint judges who understand this and change the culture of judges.
• The reason courts allow this is to avoid the government embarrassment.
• The free-market and economic liberty is the greatest anti-poverty program ever known.

• Marvin Olasky:
• The Sharing economy is template for connecting those with needs and those with means
• Breaks down professional/amateur divide.
• Charitable equivalent of Air B'N'B

• 84th #TXLEGE:
• School choice for all children
• Eliminate Margins Tax
• Economic Liberty legislation
• Give people the economic means to free up time for volunteer activity.