It is revealing that capitalists are condemned for being egoistic, but customers and employees are not, even though they all look to profit in their own way.
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What Accounts for America’s Life Expectancy Gap?
Adopting socialized medicine – “universal health care” – would not remedy the well-documented gap in U.S. life expectancy.
The Goal of Socialism Is Not to Help the Poor
Socialism is based on the doctrine of altruism, the morality of self-sacrifice.
Taylor Swift, Turn Your Wrath to Government!
If musicians and concertgoers are upset by the so-called “deceptive” practices of a “monopoly” like Ticketmaster and want the government to do something, they actually may want to redirect their attention towards another entity with monopoly power that also attempts to hide fees. That entity is … the government.
If Only Someone Made the Moral Case for Capitalism
If only we had a thinker who could portray (again, in a best-selling book, later made available for free) what benevolence, respect, and happiness could be achieved when people come to live as free, moral equals, swearing by their life and love of it to “never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.”
A Doctor Dissents from Statist Orthodoxy
Some doctors aren’t afraid to make the case for freedom, both in medical care and in all other aspects of our lives. One of them is Dr. Miguel Faria.
The Goal of Socialism
Socialism is a doctrine based at root not on love for the poor but on hatred for the creators, meaning anyone who makes money.
Patriot Act 2.0 on Steroids? The Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communication Technology Act
Online Security Concerns Shouldn’t Enable a Surveillance State
The Tax Code: A Playground for the Few, A Labyrinth for the Many
The tax code’s complexity has created an environment in which tax-preparation services, lobbyists, favored industries, and politicians thrive, while taxpayers struggle to make sense of ever-changing rules and regulations.
California Gasoline Price Gouging Bill Does Not Address Root Problem
California’s gasoline prices are higher than the rest of the country because of the state’s taxes and regulations.
Capitalism and The Exploitation of Third World Countries
To then accuse capitalism of causing the poverty — while in the very act of eradicating it — is to commit both a historical error and a profound injustice.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC): No Banking System Savior Then or Now
Scaling back deposit insurance, combined with a credible policy of putting failure costs onto their rightful owners, stockholders, instead of onto taxpayers is the proper solution to preventing mass bank failures.
Rights Belong to Individuals, Not Groups
Providing rights based on group identity is the formula for tribalism, tribal warfare, and injustice.
The Biden Administration’s Unconstitutional Tax on “Unrealized Capital Gains”
The Biden Administration’s 2023 budget bill proposing a “billionaire tax,” imposing a 25-percent minimum rate on the “unrealized capital gains” of the wealthiest Americans is unconstitutional.
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one and socialism, understood as an economic system based on government ownership of the means of production, positively requires a totalitarian dictatorship.
Faucism’s New Deal Origins
Faucism combines control over financial resources and information with a carefully cultivated cult of personality.
In Defense of “Junk” Fees
A government action against “junk fees” will result in the additional fees being bundled into a single, overall price, whether it’s a concert ticket, a new car, or some other item. Ironically or not, the opaqueness of blending all of those fees together makes it much easier to raise any or all of those fees over time.
Biden’s State of the Union 2023
President Biden is evading responsibility for the consequences of the anti-freedom, anti-development, anti-fossil-fuel policies he has supported.
Three Years In, How Did the Lockdowns Go?
The lockdowns did not improve health outcomes. They did devastate economic outcomes.
Focused Protection: Jay Bhattacharya, Sunetra Gupta, and Martin Kulldorff
If you express any misgivings about the covid policies, people are quick to retort: how do you propose we should have handled the pandemic instead? Three experts came up with an answer, which they put into writing and co-signed in the Massachusetts town of Great Barrington on October 4, 2020.
The Original Sin of U.S. Health Policy
How the federal income tax effectively created a penalty on individual control of medical and health insurance decisions that continues to this day.
Capitalism is not the problem – but a solution worth defending
Is capitalism to blame for climate change and the ills that the anti-capitalists accuse it of? To answer, we need to understand what capitalism is.
Keep Governments Out of Data Debates
There is a role for the law in consumer data privacy, but for the most part, rather than looking for ways to regulate and punish, states should stay focused on actual violations of individual rights, such as when personally identifiable data is used to commit identity and financial theft.
Mr President, End These Covid-19 Travel Restrictions Now!
For almost three years now, many wonderful artists, intellectuals, students, business professionals, and musicians have been locked out of US borders, even just to tour around and see this great land and meet up with friends. It’s simply barbaric and yet there it is.
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