Posts Tagged ‘Big Government’
Toilets: American’s Taste Of The Soviet Union
Great story from The Mises Institute, too good not to repost: The Relentless Misery of 1.6 Gallons Mises Daily: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 by Jeffrey A. Tucker "Indoor plumbing since the time of the ancient world has been a sign of prosperity and human well-being." My order at my favorite Chinese takeout was taking too long. I stopped [...]
2009 Nanny of the Year
Reason.tv has produced another great video. Watch:
The Top 8 Reasons for Big Government in the Past Decade
Here are the top eight moments of government expansion from the past decade, as decided by me. Obviously, this is my opinion and these are in no order of importance. These are simply the top eight events that led to continued growth of government. You may be wondering why I didn't do a list of ten, as seems customary with these end of year [...]
The Ever Expanding Power of Government
The year 2009 was the year of Government Growth. As was the year 2008, 2007 and so on back through history. The Wall Street Journal has a great write-up today on how the bailouts blew the size of government up even further. Check it out: In 2008 and 2009, Washington strove to save the economy. In 2010, Americans will get a clearer picture of how [...]
A Thought on Being Against Government Force
From Adam Bitely: I was just sitting here talking to my roommate on the matter of the military defending our rights over seas. If the military was defending our rights, wouldn't they be here protecting us from the Obama administration, congress, the Supreme Court and many other sources of control? That, however, is not the case. Our [...]
Congress Must Audit the Fed
From C4L: On May 5, Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) grilled Federal Reserve inspector general Elizabeth Coleman. What knowledge did she have of Bloomberg's report that the Fed had made trillions of dollars in off-balance sheet transactions? Did she know who received the trillion dollars that was added to the Fed's balance sheets since last [...]
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 [...]
The Time for Liberty
An old video, but a good watch anytime.
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 [...]
