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… and never will. So Frédéric Bastiat calling government “the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else” was more fitting than even he realized.
Last week’s election results are official, and by a vote of 31-7, prohibition of any substance has been overwhelmingly abolished in the geo-political entity known as Free Grafton.
Bob “Weeda Claus” Constantine (Free State Party) easily defeated Misty the Cat (Maoist Party) to become ambassador-elect to unfree Grafton and other coercive forms of [...]
I was asked how I might resond to a political liberal sincerely concerned with the plight of the less fortunate in a liberatian society.
The first thing I want to know is if it would be better just to save my breath. I first have to know if the person I am are communicating with [...]
In Karl Marx’s and Frederick Engels’ early portrayal of communism, they envisioned an end to the artificial scarcity and economic turbulence they believed was set in place by the private ownership of capital. No longer would an individual be confined to an “exclusive sphere of activity, which is forced upon him and from which he [...]
In an interview with Alex Jones on Monday, Connecticut senatorial candidate Peter Schiff, a long-time Ron Paul supporter, repeated comments made last year in support for pre-emptive war with Iran.
In a roundabout way, Schiff admitted that his support has less to do with self-defense than with winning Connecticut’s upcoming Republican primary, saying “If [...]
If I could only make one presidential decision, for practical and moral reasons, I’d have to resign. It only makes sense.
I’d want to disband the military or abolish the CIA. Maybe the government entirely? That would be ideal.
But what effect would it have? If we had some round robin presidential selection system, the [...]
One of John Maynard Keynes’ criticisms of the market mechanism was what he called “sticky” wages. He claimed that the market for employment does not work as efficiently as previously thought, because employees are reluctant to accept lower wages. He not only claimed that wages failed to respond to supply and demand but that it [...]
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Ethics of Voting and Holding Office
On Nov. 2, tens of millions of Americans will exercise their political franchise to play their part in shaping the future of the country, or so the story goes.
I do not like it any more than anyone else. Most voters will gleefully cast their ballots for politicians openly seeking the legal sanction to aggress [...]