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I was listening to an episode of The Fuze, a local internet show co-hosted by Ken Emanuelson of the Dallas Tea Party, with former New Mexico governor Garry Johnson as his guest.
The show got contentious when the discussion moved to immigration. From my understanding, Emanuelson is concerned that mass immigration will drive down [...]
For context, I have written before why libertarians, and particularly libertarians committed to small government, should support open immigration as a matter of principle. Further, I have given a consequentialist argument for open immigration and what that entails.
For me, the least impactful line of argument I would think is the constitutional argument. That so [...]
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 [...]
Before I had run out of excuses, as one bumper sticker chides, I was still a minarchist — whereby I believed the only purported role of the state was the defensive protection of individual rights. I was still fiercely opposed to immigration restrictions, based on my reading Ayn Rand, who was obviously sympathetic to immigrants [...]
I don’t make it to Dallas all that often for activism events, but the May 1 event was worth the effort. We had a marijuana re-legalization rally at high noon and an immigration rally in the same afternoon.
Well, we had parked the car and were walking up just as the local Worldwide Marijuana [...]
A new law passed in Arizona is reported to be one of the harshest crackdowns on so-called illegal immigrants in several decades. Barrack Obama has also chimed in and criticized the legislation for being “misguided,” whatever that means. I have not read the new law, and I do not care to. Conservatives love it, [...]
My discomfort with so many of the state and national “liberty” candidates for office is their general willingness to appeal to collectivism on issues like immigration, otherwise known as “moving.” Even Ron Paul was plagued by this, in part to be taken seriously by Republican voters. Of course, I may be too cynical in [...]
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Commentary on Dallas Immigration Visas and Local Police Brutality
The city of Dallas, in concert with the federal government, has a relatively new program to grant immigration visas to foreign nationals in exchange for investing in Dallas business projects. The program has targeted investors from Mexico but has expanded to other countries as well. On one hand, I appreciate that the federal government [...]