All Posts Tagged With: "welfare state"
Wealth and Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes
When the father of the world’s richest individual and the cofounder of an outfit called United for a Fair Economy get together to write a defense of the estate tax, the result is one of the worst books ever written in American history about a public-policy issue. Although Gates and Collins have written a tract [...]
8Jul2010 | Murray Sabrin | 0 comments | ContinuedTariffs are Legal Plunder
Everybody has an issue he reacts to most intensely. [Frederic] Bastiat’s was tariffs. And his most barbed comments were directed against those who favored governmental protection of national industry from foreign competition. He thought this legal method of cheating consumers by keeping prices above the market was a perfect example of how governments plunder their [...]
7Jul2010 | Dean Russell | 1 comment | ContinuedSocial Security Is Moral?
A good many people express incredulity with the consistent free-market, or libertarian, position. They consider opposition to the welfare state as something bizarre, rejection of unlimited democracy as almost un-American, and opposition to things like Social Security as bordering on outright callousness. For this reason it may be of some value to illustrate how a [...]
1Jul2010 | Tibor R. Machan | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Rise of Government and the Decline of Morality
The recent financial crisis has expanded the power of government. Tea parties have revealed the disillusion of millions of Americans with the rise of government and the decline of morality. The crisis has damaged, unfairly, the vision of market liberalism. It is essential, therefore, to reexamine and articulate the principles of a free society and [...]
29Jun2010 | James A. Dorn | 10 comments | ContinuedAre Welfare State Orphans in Good Hands?
On February 22, 2010, a court in suburban Washington, D.C., passed judgment in one of the most horrendous cases of child abuse in modern times. Renee Bowman, the adopting parent of three girls, had for years starved, neglected, and beaten them, while keeping them locked night and day in their bedroom. She choked two of the [...]
20May2010 | James L. Payne | 4 comments | ContinuedThe New Financial Imperialism
The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia defines imperialism as “the policy of extending a nation’s authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations. Because imperialism always involves the use of power, often in the form of military force, it is widely considered morally objectionable, and the term accordingly has [...]
20May2010 | Robert Stewart | 3 comments | ContinuedThe Moral Consequences of Economic Growth
Benjamin Friedman is a professor of political economy and a former chairman of the economics department at Harvard University. He is also an unswerving advocate of the interventionist welfare state. His recent book, The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth, is meant to demonstrate what is necessary to assure that the majority of the people will [...]
18May2010 | Richard M. Ebeling | 1 comment | ContinuedWill the New Bailout Save Europe?
While Greece and other European countries have been facing disaster, it is nothing like the disaster that looms because the economic piper has yet to be paid.
12May2010 | William L. Anderson | 5 comments | ContinuedInterventionism, Immigration, and Nationalism
I was born and raised in Arizona, so I’ve been following with particular interest that state’s recently passed immigration legislation as well as the ensuing public uproar.
4May2010 | Sandy Ikeda | 25 comments | ContinuedHow We’ll Know When We’ve Won
“Are we winning?” That’s a query I hear almost every time I speak to an audience about liberty and the battle of ideas. Everyone wants to know if we should be upbeat or distraught about the course of events, as if the verdict should determine whether or not we continue the fight. Too many friends [...]
19Apr2010 | Lawrence W. Reed | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Census: Vehicle for Social Engineering
In his book Seeing Like a State, James Scott commented on the role played by census data in the rise of the modern State: “If we imagine a state that has no reliable means of enumerating and locating its population, gauging its wealth, and mapping its land, resources, and settlements, we are imagining a state [...]
19Apr2010 | Wendy McElroy | 1 comment | Continued“What Sort of Despotism Democratic Nations Have to Fear”
Considering what has been happening legislatively of late (and not just in the last year-plus), it seems like a good time to revisit Tocqueville’s writing about democratic despotism.
2Apr2010 | Sheldon Richman | 8 comments | ContinuedHow Shall We Live?
What is civilization and how is it to be achieved? How can we live together in peace and social harmony? What is wealth and how do we acquire it? Why are so many people poor and why do they remain poor? Finally, are there objective standards of behavior that must be respected if societies are [...]
24Mar2010 | and Paul A. Cleveland | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Welfare State Kills Children
On February 22 a court in suburban Washington, D.C., passed judgment in one of the most horrendous cases of child abuse in modern times.
16Mar2010 | James L. Payne | 7 comments | ContinuedThe Census: Vehicle for Social Engineering
The census in a welfare state creates a dynamic in which the exercise of one person’s rights ostensibly damages the interests others.
23Feb2010 | Wendy McElroy | 9 comments | ContinuedThe Legal Foundations of Free Markets
The Legal Foundations of Free Markets, a recent book from the veteran British free-market Institute of Economic Affairs, brings together essays by nine leading experts in law and economics that delve into the interface between the legal system and the economy. The book blends historical analysis, economics, and legal theory, yielding many penetrating insights. Each [...]
5Jan2010 | George C. Leef | 2 comments | ContinuedSenate Reaches Deal on Public Option
“After days of secret talks, Senate Democrats tentatively agreed Tuesday night to drop a full-blown government-run insurance option from sweeping health care legislation, several officials said, a concession to party moderates whose votes are critical to passage of President Barack Obama’s top domestic priority.” (AP, Wednesday) It’s not over til the Senate votes. FEE Timely [...]
9Dec2009 | Mike Van Winkle | 0 comments | Continued-
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