One of the scams pushed by the soulless parasites is the notion of “universal basic income” or “UBI”: the idea that, just as a result of existing, everyone is magically entitled to a certain amount of prosperity, income and wealth. Unfortunately, this political Tooth Fairy approach seems to work well on the economically ignorant, which includes most people. After all, it sounds so nice—so caring and generous. What could possibly be destructive or malicious about giving everyone free stuff?
Tag: government
Don’t Give Government More to Do
To my reform-minded (as opposed to abolition-minded) friends, please stop trying to make statism ‘better’ and work on making it smaller and weaker. Your goals of replacing the state’s current systems of plunder and redistribution with different systems of plunder and redistribution are not helpful.
A Plea for Do-Nothing Government
Probably the single most beneficial amendment to the U.S. and state constitutions would be an amendment to forbid the government from “doing something” beyond its normal actions in response to national or local emergencies.
Complaints and Poor Choices
People who make the choice to be involved in government stuff, and then sit around complaining about it, seem to me like someone who sticks their foot in an ant bed and keeps complaining about being stung.
Four Decades of Middle Eastern Disaster: The Proximate Cause
Almost all of the Middle East’s disasters over the past four decades can be credibly traced back to a single highly specific major event: the Iranian Revolution. Let me chronicle the tragic trail of dominoes.
Houston, TX
As usual, when some kind of catastrophe strikes — Hurricane Harvey in this instance — anti-market types will pipe up with “I’ll tell you so” shots such as “Who will save the people of Houston now? The market?” My response is “Exactly!”
The Existence of the State makes Evil People Far More Dangerous
Donald Trump or Barack Obama or George Bush or Franklin D. Roosevelt weren’t particularly dangerous until they obtained control of the state, and the same can be said of nearly every politician, dictator, and tyrant in history. What makes evil people so dangerous is that they can—often in an ostensibly legitimate manner—assume power over millions or even billions of other people.
Words Poorly Used #100 — Pardon
A pardon should be given to correct a miscarriage of justice, not to perpetrate another injustice. A pardon under the law is to make the law more humane, not to unleash the lawless upon the land.
The Myth of ‘Good Government’
The history of the US is not that of good government gone bad, but of bad government remaining bad. Yes, it’s improved a bit in some areas even as it has worsened in others, but when it comes to its central evils—plundering, kidnapping, caging, and killing people—it continues to follow the pattern of cruel oppression which has always defined it.
Nice Monsters
Most serial killers are probably very nice. It’s how they gain the trust of their intended victims; getting them to let their guard down. If they weren’t nice, they would find it hard to get close enough to kill their victims up close and personal. But if you are being nice in order to facilitate violating people, you aren’t good. No matter how many people like you for your niceness.