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From Good Samaritan to Robin Hood
The clamor from interventionists against inequality morphs into a clamor for a larger and larger state. This path leads to the loss of liberty and a distortion of both democracy and justice. It distorts democracy because, by attempting to solve inequality, it removes limits to power and expands the field of state action. It distorts justice because the only way to solve inequality politically is for the state to have the power to treat individuals unequally. Thus the struggle to eliminate inequality ends up destroying the most important form of equality for an open society: equality before the law.
10Jun2009 | Carlos Rodríguez Braun | 1 comment | ContinuedTwo Directions at Once
Mr. Read is President of the Foundation for Economic Education.
We are going in two directions at once,” observed Henry Hazlitt. His subsequent explanation of this statement squared precisely with my own observations. So far as the millions are concerned, socialism is more agreeably accepted today than yesterday, a year ago, a decade ago, or [...]
Legislated Security Is Bondage
Excerpts from an address, December 5, 1916,
The “grand old man” of labor—president of the AFL, 1886-1924—warned his union members to look behind the humanitarian slogans used by the advocates of government-guaranteed security
There has never yet come down from any government any substantial improvement in the conditions of the masses of the people, unless it [...]
Loyalty Oaths
Is there any logic in passing a law which states that one person must be loyal to another person? Isn’t that about the same thing as threatening to use force to make one person love another person? Can it be done?
Our government now demands that its citizens in various capacities swear that they will [...]
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The End of Prosperity: How Higher Taxes Will Doom the Economy–If We Let it Happen
By Arthur B. Laffer, Stephen Moore, and Peter J. Tanous
