In a world without government welfare, every individual would be required to either provide for themselves, or rely on private charity. “But what if they can’t get private charity?” cries a bleeding-heart liberal.
Tag: government
Presidential Library
Pursuant to a query on Facebook, books that I would hope POTUS (any POTUS) would read, before being in office or during, and why.
International Adoption: The Personal Side
To take the case of international adoption: We’re paranoid about the microscopic risk of accidentally snatching a poor family’s wanted baby – and barely cognizant of the fantastic opportunity regulation snatches from the hands of orphans around the world.
Bubbles on the Tide of History
We are all bubbles on the tide of history. It depends on what part of the tide in which you are. Most of us Americans are bubbles, or in a bubble, caught on the tide of British and European imperialism.
Offshore
I don’t yet know a great deal about the revelations of offshore financial maneuvers, but I am intriqued. I am going to follow the stories of the Paradise Papers and the Panama Papers more closely.
Voluntary Provision of a So-called Public Good
This is the trouble with neoclassical welfare economics, amigos: it’s not a decent theory, but it’s a dandy rationale for government to coerce people right and left ostensibly in order to supply valuable public goods, many of which are mere boondoggles for government contractors and magnets for corruption of the legislators and bureaucrats who impose the projects on an often-unwilling public.
How to Stop a Rogue President from Ordering a Nuclear First Strike
Nuclear weapons have no legitimate military use. They are weapons of terror, not of war. It’s time that the first and only government to ever use them become the second (after South Africa) to voluntarily give them up, for its own sake and the world’s.
Are You Still Trusting Liars?
Cops lie. Court employees lie. Prosecutors lie. Crime labs lie. The mainstream media usually accepts these lies without question and passes them along, in the form of “press releases” or statements by those government employees, to a gullible public.
Mongoose
In Hawaii, in the late 19th Century, Mongooses were imported to rid the sugar cane fields of rats. Now the mongooses are overwhelming, reducing populations of birds and turtles, and domestic cats! The mongoose tale is still a bit exotic, but the story is most often demonstrated where government is the mongoose.
Speeding, Drunk Driving, and Guns
The “laws” against speeding and drunk driving are every bit as illegitimate as those against gun ownership, and for exactly the same reasons. Those caught and punished under those “laws” have usually caused exactly zero damage before they are “caught”.