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California voters have an important moral decision in November. Will the 200 California billionaires, who got richer under Trump, begin paying their fair share through a one-time 5% wealth tax, or will millions lose their healthcare because of Trump’s cuts? The choice is clear.

The deadliest famines in recorded history share one common trait: government control over food production and distribution. Stalin's Holodomor killed 3.5 million Ukrainians in 1932-33. Mao's Great Leap Forward starved 15-45 million Chinese between 1958-1962. Pol Pot's agricultural collectives murdered 2 million Cambodians through starvation from 1975-1979. Each disaster followed the same script. Central planners seized private farms, eliminated price signals, and replaced voluntary exchange with bureaucratic allocation. They destroyed the knowledge embedded in market prices that coordinates millions of individual decisions about planting, harvesting, storing, and distributing food. Without profit and loss guiding resources to their most valued uses, crops rotted in fields while people starved in cities. Compare this record to countries with functioning food markets. Even during severe droughts, floods, or other natural disasters, market economies avoid mass starvation. Prices rise to signal scarcity, encouraging conservation and attracting supply from other regions. Entrepreneurs profit by moving food from areas of abundance to areas of need. Speculation smooths consumption over time by rewarding those who store food during abundance and release it during scarcity. Free market economists have explained this pattern for centuries. Policy makers continue treating markets as the problem rather than the solution. They impose price controls during shortages (creating more shortages), restrict food exports during domestic abundance (reducing incentives to produce surpluses), and subsidize inefficient agricultural practices (misallocating resources away from actual food production). The next time someone claims markets fail to feed people, remind them that every major famine occurred when governments replaced market allocation with political allocation. Turns out the Soviet flag depicts the hammer of government destroying the sickle.

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