The Coronavirus Doesn’t Override the Constitution
Politicians rush to limit our choices in the name of “keeping us safe.”
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Politicians rush to limit our choices in the name of “keeping us safe.”
We should focus on shielding the elderly and people with comorbidities while allowing the young and healthy to associate with one another in order to build up immunities
Sadly, conservatives and libertarians are perpetuating this myth that the UBI will replace the overgrown welfare system, or serve as a substantial alternative.
A wholesale economic lockdown in a pandemic does not protect but violates rights.
So which is more effective in keeping us—as customers and employees—safe: the government bureaucrat with no personal incentive, or the businessman, whose profits and reputation depend on the safety and satisfaction of his employees and customers?
The proper name for “government stimulus” is: “capital destruction.” It’s the unreplaced using up of the factors of production.
The point of the principle of indivisibility is to remind us that the various freedoms rise or fall together, even if with various lags, even if some freedom, for a time, seems to be rising as others fall; in whatever direction the freedoms move, eventually they tend to dovetail.
Does the data validate those who say humans are causing the earth to catastrophically warm?
Some Americans say our government should be more like China’s. Repressive government controls like China’s should not be our role model.