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People with an investment in government power will torture logic like a medieval inquisitor rather than face the facts. ... There's a simple way to k….
The truly free market is the worker's best friend..
The government's coercive taxing power necessarily creates two classes: those who create and those who consume the wealth expropriated and transferre….
Today, the people who would use guns to violate rights have little trouble getting them, while those who would use them to defend their rights have i….
Apologists for activist government never tire of telling us that the benevolent state is our protector and that without it wed be at the mercy of m….
Anyone who believes in the natural and inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is obliged to accept that individuals have t….
We must acknowledge, of course, that what looks like failure to us Americans outside the privileged elite may not actually be failure for our overlor….
No matter how much the government controls the economic system, any problem will be blamed on whatever small zone of freedom that remains..
The state is an organization of mere mortals who, by one dubious method or another, have been allowed to don the mantle of political legitimacy and t….
Government spending reduces the capital that could be invested to serve consumers and to produce new employment opportunities..
It should go without saying that even the most narrowly construed eminent-domain power would violate individual rights. Either a person owns his leg….
Some conservatives are surprised to find people on the Left supporting the war in Afghanistan. It's not surprising at all...It is hard for the govern….
The housing and financial crisis could not have occurred in the absence of government housing and monetary policies..
The draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society no one should be compell….
When government 'creates jobs' by taking money from the private sector and 'investing' in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rath….
Wealth comes from the production and exchange of goods and services. If someone efficiently produces a good that many people willingly trade their ….
Government interference with the economic process represents a substitution of political for consumer objectives..
Those who create the wealth naturally want to keep it and devote it to their own purposes. Those who wish to expropriate it look for ever more-cleve….
We think of prices as simply the notation of how much we must pay for things. But the price system accomplishes far more than that. Hundreds of milli….
In an unmolested market economy - one where all dealings are consensual - the 'allocation' of wealth and income is the result of transactions..
Why is Netanyahu pushing war? Among several reasons, demonizing Iran reduces pressure on Israel to negotiate seriously with the Palestinians. Many Is….