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Don’t Pay Taxes. Buy Things That You Want The Government To Do.

June 11, 2019

Many difficulties of coordination remain. But it’s interesting to think of just what can be accomplished even on this modest scale. Many of the problems of unaccountability in bureaucracy are solved, because the activities and prices are private bids.

Our School System Was Designed To Produce Obedient Servants Of The State. It Should Be Abolished.

June 10, 2019

Attempts to reform our public schooling system amount to an incredible waste of time and resources. Discussions of reform are a waste of breath. The system is rotten at its foundation and must be abolished completely.

Democracy Was A Valid Way To Make Collective Decisions. Now It’s A Toxic Tool For Ramming Through The Preferences Of A Voting Majority.

June 9, 2019

Pop quiz: what’s the most economically significant difference…

Can Western Governments Still Govern? It’s Looking Increasingly Unlikely.

June 8, 2019

The debate now over socialism versus capitalism conceals the cruder reality that the parties of the left—whether in the U.S., U.K., Germany or the nation-state of California—have come to regard the private sector as an alien tribe whose only function is to finance the public machinery that runs welfare, health and now climate protocols.

Why Is Entrepreneurship Lacking In Resource-Rich African Countries? Because They Don’t Defend Private Property Rights.

June 7, 2019

The principles of economic thought tell us that investments…

The Market Is A Vast Network Of People Being Kind To Other People.

June 6, 2019

Countless minds and countless hands have contributed to the slow march of civilization and helped to create a modern world in which I can perform innumerable operations closed off to previous generations without thinking about them. As Russell Roberts put it, “Love locally, trade globally.” As it gets easier to do the latter, it gets easier to do the former.

How An Absurd Government Environmental Mandate Transfers Cash From General Motors And Fiat Chrysler To Tesla.

June 5, 2019

Tesla has generated almost $2 billion in revenue from selling regulatory credits since 2010. If manufacturers don’t sell enough non-polluting vehicles, they have to purchase credits from competitors like Tesla to make up the difference. The system is administered at the federal level by the EPA and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

If Free Markets Can Bring Us Smartphones, Why Do We Need Politicians To Bring Us Anything Else?

June 4, 2019

Smartphones, and cars were viewed as wildly impossible to own before entrepreneurs like Michael Dell, Steve Jobs and Henry Ford succeeded in mass producing them. Yet Warren wants to get us healthcare? Why? What could she possibly deliver other than incredibly expensive inefficiency?

Compared To Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity, And To Verifiable Scientific Theories In General, Climate Change Theory Is Voodoo.

June 3, 2019

All the accompanying hoopla surrounding the theory of man-made global warming or climate change in our time fails to meet the criterion of testability, such as Eddington’s expedition put to test Einstein’s theory of general relativity and, hence, the so-called science of man-made global warming might well be described as voodoo-science.

Only Central Bankers Could Dream Up Unproductive, Anti-Growth, Anti-Entrepreneurial Negative Interest Rates.

June 2, 2019

Negative interest rates? The very notion speaks to an artificial attempt to create what already exists (low-interest lending to concepts with certainty) without improving the economic outlook one iota. True growth is driven by surprise and uncertainty.

Unions Are Attempting To Destroy The Great American System Of Franchising, Which Brings Opportunity And Jobs To So Many.

June 1, 2019

The franchise model isn’t broken, but that hasn’t stopped progressive activists from looking for ways to fix it. The Coalition of Franchisee Associations and the Service Employees International Union have been trying for four years to convince lawmakers around the country the system is unfair.

Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars Fueled Bernie Sanders To Wealth Success.

May 31, 2019

Today, Sanders rakes in $174,000 every year from serving in the upper chamber Senate. He has earned $2,248,500 in his 12 years there and had earned $2,272,500 from his 16 years in the House, so federal taxpayers have financed his life to the tune of more than $4.5 million.

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