John Stossel

President Biden has issued an order that cancels up to $20K per person in college loans. Terrible idea! Unless a court throws it out, workers will pay for privileged students to go to overpriced colleges. Mike Rowe tells me students who demand debt forgiveness are “self-involved."

This Thanksgiving, say thank you to "private property” The pilgrims tried collective farming, and almost starved. Here’s what saved them

Celebrities and environmentalists want to ban plastic straws. That makes them feel good, but will it accomplish anything? I asked Kristin Tate to find out:

NASA’s administrator admits, “We have not been good at maintaining schedule... not been good at maintaining costs.” No kidding. Government never is. Thank goodness innovation comes from private companies like Elon Musk's SpaceX:

“If AOC were fat and in her 60s, no one would listen to her,” says Adam Carolla. Comments like that cause controversy. But Corolla won’t apologize. “Apologizing just leads to more apologizing,” he tells me.

Everywhere people trash capitalism. But that’s mostly because they don’t understand it. In this video (and the next), I’ll set the record straight, and debunk 7 myths about capitalism. In this part of the series, Economist Dan Mitchell helps me bust ridiculous ideas about rich entrepreneurs, income inequality, and monopolies.

Did you know you could miss one tax payment and your local government may take your home? Tawanda Hall was slightly behind on her property taxes. She was on a payment plan, but short $900. So the government took her whole $308,000 home. Hall says she tried to pay, but, “They didn’t want our money… They wanted our house." Now they’ve got it, and the town won’t give her the $286,000 difference back. That’s just wrong.

The U.S. sugar program costs consumers billions, while rich politically-connected sugar industry CEOs get richer. The program is “Stalin-style price controls," Ross Marchand of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance tells me. The U.S. government uses a complex system of loans, domestic quotas, and limits on how much sugar we can import. The goal is to control the price of sugar. I call it “Welfare for the rich."

How did liberals go from being the anti-censorship group to the pro-censorship group? A Classic Stossel from 2015. "The Silencing” author, Kirsten Powers, says "Liberals have typically believed in free speech debate and dissent... But now, it's I'm offended. They don't want to hear ideas that they disagree with and they don't want other people to hear ideas that they disagree with."

As we look back on the 4 year anniversary of “15 days to slow the spread,” it is easy to see how politicians made things worse. But lots of ordinary people fought the pandemic through voluntary cooperation. They are the unsung heroes:

It's Constitution Day! What's your favorite part? Many people I asked in Times Square couldn't name a single thing. Parts of the Constitution are hard to read. But they're still important! -- The right to free speech -- The right of the people to bear arms -- The guarantee of trial by jury -- The 13th amendment, which outlawed slavery -- The 21st amendment ending alcohol prohibition I also ask liberty-supporting people like Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.), and Former Rep. Justin Amash for their picks.

Sen Bernie Sanders say America should become more like Sweden. I agree. Sweden has a private pension system, school vouchers, and no minimum wage law:

Politicians say “Yes, we can!” and claim that they solve our problems. I say “No THEY can’t!” Politicians are wrong when they say “Yes, we can,” but the fact that government can’t doesn’t mean that we can’t. Free people accomplish wonderful things. While government wastes billions on boondoggles like Solyndra, X-prize founder Peter Diamandis explains how private investors have created cars that get 100mpg, space ships, and much faster ways to clean up oil spills, all without charging taxpayers a penny. Without big government, life can be great. A Classic Stossel from 2012

Happy 4th of July! As we celebrate America's freedom, I call your attention to a courageous billionaire. When tyrants crushed his country’s freedom, Jimmy Lai spoke out against them. He could have escaped and lived the good life. Instead, he chose jail.

We’ve heard about the top secret documents found at Trump and Biden’s homes. It's a "national security crisis,” say the media. Nonsense. It’s the usual media hysteria. Here is why most government “secrets” are not what you think.

“Do you really want to live in a country where government bureaucrats … can censor whatever they don’t like?” asks Flying Dog Brewery CEO Jim Caruso. He’s spending his own money to sue beer bureaucrats who banned his and other beer labels. Good for Caruso for spending his own money to fight for free speech:

“Green” activists say oil “is going to take everything we know and love!” But their “zero emission” vision is NONSENSE! “It’s almost infantile,” says physicist Mark Mills, “it’s distressing because it’s so silly.” Part 2 of our series: Electric Cars: Inconvenient Facts.

“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules ... that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today,” says Thomas Sowell. Here’s why I admire him:

Creators of the Green New Deal have no idea how energy is produced in this country says James Meigs of City Journal:

Big business lobbies government to pass rules that hurt smaller competitors. It's always been that way. 100 years ago, Heinz found a way to make ketchup without a preservative. Then it pushed government to kill off its competitors by banning that preservative. The sleaze continues:

When Philly passed a big soda tax, politicians said it'd fund pre-K. But MOST of it didn’t. Philadelphians I interviewed on the street were right to be skeptical:

When someone commits a crime, they should be punished. But after? Let them work! Yet thousands of state laws make that hard by BANNING ex-cons from many professions... even beauty care:

I expect politicians to be somewhat hypocritical. But when #Covid hit, they set new lows. Here are some of the worst:

DNA evidence frees hundreds of wrongly jailed people. How did courts and prosecutors get it so wrong? Shoddy science is a reason:

Popular "socially responsible" investment funds advertise: “Make money AND help the world!” But they often do neither. Investing in “socially responsible” or “sustainable” funds usually means you pay higher fees to invest in feel-good nonsense. Even worse, "socially responsible" funds can backfire. Some green funds oppose fracking -- but the U.S. led all countries in reducing carbon emissions lately, mostly because fracking’s natural gas reduced demand for dirty coal and oil. Watch the video above for more about how "socially responsible" funds cost you more to accomplish nothing good for the world.