All Posts Tagged With: "mutual aid"
Government Is No Friend of the Poor
You’ve heard it all too many times to count, I suspect. Apologists for big government—the New York Times’s Paul Krugman and Washington Post’s Eugene Robinson being good recent examples—are convinced there’s just no good alternative to government social services. Without the government, people will go hungry. They’ll die in the streets. We’ll lapse back into [...]
4Jan2012 | Gary Chartier | 23 comments | ContinuedObama: Enemy of the Working Class
Barack Obama, the current White House occupant, recently reaffirmed his support for employer-based health insurance. In my book that makes him the enemy of all working people. The tethering of employees to their bosses is a rotten leftover from World War II and should have been abolished long ago. Those who believe in freedom and [...]
12Feb2010 | Sheldon Richman | 1 comment | ContinuedHealth Care: A Future Free-Market Alternative
I visit a new doctor because of complaints I’ve been having. The primary-care doctor begins his first visit with me by explaining his payment system. I need to put down a retainer based on his assessment of the time it will take him to deal with my problem, which he’ll inform me of at the [...]
23Sep2009 | Ross Levatter | 8 comments | ContinuedThe Four Mistakes of Nonlibertarians
George Leef is book review editor of The Freeman. In Libertarianism: For and Against (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), two philosophers debate the merits of libertarianism. Arguing in favor is Professor Tibor Machan, a contributing editor to The Freeman. His opponent is Professor Craig Duncan, who attempts a refutation of libertarianism and seeks to persuade readers [...]
1Jun2007 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | ContinuedFrom Mutual Aid to the Welfare State by David T. Beito
University of North Carolina Press • 2000 • 424 pages • $24.95 David T. Beito has written a book of significance to many subdisciplines of history, including urban history, social history, African-American history, and immigration history. Concentrating on the oft-ridiculed fraternal lodges, Beito argues that Americans have gone from a welfare system of mutual aid [...]
1Apr2001 | Roger W. Lotchin | 3 comments | Continued-
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