The Myth That People Work Harder Under Capitalism
December 29, 2019 – Barry Brownstein …… Capitalism has been the great engine of unimagined prosperity and unimagined improvements in worker conditions. Continue reading →
Why We Should (Freely) Give to the Poor this Christmas Season
December 22, 2019 – Lawrence W. Reed …… True compassion is helping others out of a genuine sense of caring and brotherhood. It is not asking your legislator or congressman to do it for you. Continue reading →
Why a “Billionaire” Wealth Tax Would Hurt the Working Poor and the Middle Class
December 18, 2019 – Mark Hornshaw …… Although the wealth tax was drafted with the poor in mind, its passing could cause them more harm than benefit. Continue reading →
Bernie Sanders’s Upside-Down Concept of “Morality”
September 10, 2019 – Bradley Thomas …… Sanders’s and other progressives’ blustering about “morality” is really a smokescreen designed to distract from their vision of a society organized around the threat of government aggression against innocents who simply want to mind their own business. Continue reading →
The Welfare State is Tearing Sweden Apart
June 4, 2019 – Jon Nylander …… The welfare state is a key ingredient in sowing social mistrust and discord among diverse groups in Sweden. Continue reading →
Student Debt Cancellation: Charity or Force?
May 30, 2019 – Jacob Hornberger …… There is a fundamental difference between voluntary charity and mandatory “charity.” Continue reading →
Liberty Means Repealing, not Reforming, Social Security
April 16, 2019 – Jacob G. Hornberger …… Liberty necessary entails the absence of infringements on liberty. Therefore, the attainment of a free society necessarily entails a lifting, dismantling, or repeal of infringements on liberty. Continue reading →
Ending Poverty
April 3, 2019 – Jacob Hornberger …… The way to end poverty is to prohibit government from waging war on poverty. Continue reading →
Guaranteed Income Versus Prohibited Income
March 20, 2019 – Lee Friday …… Welfare programs and wealth taxes: the government’s pretense of transferring a little bit of wealth from the rich to the poor is a smokescreen for the massive amount of wealth surreptitiously flowing in the opposite direction. Continue reading →
Canada’s Federal Government Knows Welfare Programs are Counterproductive, but the Handouts Continue
March 4, 2019 – Lee Friday …… To borrow a sentiment from Ludwig von Mises, we need to rid ourselves of the idea “that the State or the Government is the embodiment of all that is good and beneficial.” Continue reading →