All Posts Tagged With: "legal plunder"
Let’s Not Throw American Medicine into Boston Harbor
Jane Orient, M.D., is the executive director of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons and a member of the FEE Board of Trustees. She is the author of Your Doctor Is Not In: Healthy Skepticism About National Health Care and a new novel about where the money is in medicine, Sutton’s Law. The ongoing [...]
1Jul1998 | Jane M. Orient M.D. | 0 comments | ContinuedCapital Letters: Libertarians and Crime
Libertarians and Crime In his article “The Real Enemy of Liberty” (December 1994), Robert James Bidinotto laments that crime “curiously . . . has gotten scant attention from most proponents of the free market system.” Bidinotto goes on to say that “Free marketeers typically posit government per se as the enemy of individual rights and [...]
1Apr1997 | FEE Admin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe New York City Guide to Destroying an Economy
New York City once served as an international beacon of economic opportunity, attracting individuals and entrepreneurs from around the globe. But for several decades, New York’s entrepreneurial lights have been dimming, to the point now that they are all but extinguished. What brought about the demise of this once great city? The answer lies on [...]
1Aug1996 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | ContinuedBastiat, Liberty, and The Law
“The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” —Frederic Bastiat Frederic Bastiat (1801-1850) holds a special place in the hearts and minds of the friends of liberty. There is no mystery here to be solved. The key to Bastiat’s appeal is the integrity and elegance [...]
1May1996 | Sheldon Richman | 2 comments | ContinuedNo, Fred, There Is No Free Enterprise–At Least Not Here
Dr. Ahlseen is Associate Professor of Economics at King College in Bristol, Tennessee. Each passing year results in more government regulation and control over private sector production. It has become increasingly difficult for entrepreneurs to gain official approval to initiate and sustain an enterprise. Such impediments are a form of what Frederic Bastiat called legal [...]
1Feb1996 | Mark Ahlseen | 0 comments | ContinuedPrivate Property Ownership
Mr. Bellerue is a real property analyst specializing in eminent domain. According to the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, no person shall be “deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” This clause, known as the eminent domain reservation, [...]
1Jan1995 | Al Bellerue | 25 comments | Continued-
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