‘Big Government’ Archives
Saturday Must Read: Minimum-wage Folly
From the Boston Globe: AS IF the recession hasn’t been rough enough on those near the bottom of the economic food chain, fresh bad news is on the way. Beginning July 24, the federal government will be making it more difficult for employers to hire low-skilled and unskilled American workers. Thanks to an ill-advised law enacted with [...]
More Government Expansion
From Will Frable: A couple of days ago I read an article that mentions a Bill being proposed by a New York Senator that would put harsh regulations on young people seeking a credit card. Now given that this country runs on a credit system for any large purchase it is important to establish credit at an early age. What the hell is the matter [...]
Who’s Watching
Today the New York Times ran an article on the NSA exceeding their public monitoring privileges which congress just extended last year. Monitoring of the public is wrong to begin with, but this, along with the MIAC Report, the recently released DHS Report, and the full body scans coming to an airport near you have put the United States down a [...]
The Forgotten Generality Principle
By Justin Williams The contract theory of how government forms is one of a community banding together to prevent violence. They all want rules and regulations to keep one another from preying upon each of their property. We understand that this is how the United States came together. It was a social contract that was semi not imposed on. As the [...]
Excessive Force of the Day
From Adam Bitely: Today, at the New School in New York City, the NYPD ended a protest using what most would call "excessive force". Fortunately, a patriot was able to capture the footage for public consumption. Here is yet another example of how the Government gets carried away with it's monopoly on force. Here is the NYPD beating up [...]
The Benefits of Failure by Peter T. Leeson
From the Washington Times In a market economy, business deaths are like death itself - an unfortunate but inevitable fact of life. However, recent government bailouts have tried to stop the inevitable by intervening in the market, at least temporarily saving failed firms from the economic grim reaper. Before putting the next failed business [...]
Is there such thing as efficient Anarchy?
By Justin Williams When most people think of anarchy, they think about chaos but the classic definition simply means "without government." For example, we do not have a world government. There is not an overarching powerful sovereign force that can do anything to us that they want in the world. Dr. Peter Leeson has an article publish in the [...]
Extortion by the U.S. Government!
From Judge Napolitano: The Federal government committed extortion and they're not being held accountable. What's next? Listen to this: I recently met with the Chair and CEO of one of the country's top 10 bank holding companies. His bank is worth in excess of $250 billion, has no bad debt, no credit default swaps, no liquidity problems, and no [...]
What is Liberty?
By Justin Williams The very word that makes up the title of our headquarters has been used and abused. What does it mean? If you look for definitions at dictionary.com you will find: freedom from arbitrary or despotic government or control freedom or right to frequent or use a place unwarranted or impertinent freedom in action or [...]
New Cigarette Tax Today
By Adam Bitely Today was the first day that Obama's new tax on smokers took effect. Not only is the singling out of a minority group to pay for the majority wrong, this broke a campaign promise from Obama. It's not like any of us ever expect politicians to keep their promises anyways. Jacob Sullum at Hit & Run had a great write [...]
