“Left” and “Right” are a false dichotomy in most ways that count. However, I’ve noticed something that has caught my attention in how people who identify on either side view their fellow human beings, and thought I’d share.
Tag: intervention
Stock Exchange
Congress blamed insider market abuses and inadequate disclosure of financial data for the Great Depression, and reacted by creating the SEC. In truth, the Great Depression had more to do with tariffs and poor Federal Reserve policies. I feel like I’ve heard this story before: the government causes a problem, and uses the problem as a reason to take more power.
The Way of Change
Voluntaryism, and other well-ordered philosophies, apply from the bottom-up, whereas interventionism intrudes from the top down. Interventionism razes the residual part of town, but voluntaryism causes natural change toward the optimum.
There’s a Due Process Problem with Homeschool Regulations
The biggest problem with the often-cavalier way citizens and lawmakers suggest regulating homeschoolers – who receive no public money but still pay local property taxes to fund schools – is that it is an invasion of privacy and a violation of due process.
Net Neutrality Will Neuter The Net
Rather than letting market forces incentivize innovation, net-neutrality supporters are advocating that the state step in and force the internet to maintain a status quo that the market, in response to the increasingly high demand for a scarce resource, may or may not want to keep.
Status Symbol II
To make a long story short, numbers of SUVs dictate numbers of lowslung European racing cars. Porsche is trying to jigger numbers filed with bureaucrats, and unintended consequences arise again.
Lysander Spooner Quote #21
By my reading, Spooner is opposed to “quanto-cracy” in any form. There are no mathematical paths to freedom, except those dealing with the individual’s voluntary relationship with each other individual, directly, in their scope of action.
Laid Down Their Arms and Walked Away
I am glad that Bowe Bergdahl will not be required to spend any more time as the prisoner of a criminal regime. He suffered more than enough as a captive of the US government, the Taliban, and then the US government again.
Letting Government Control You
I don’t support using “laws” against you if you make a different choice, and I understand that cops who make “traffic stops” based on seat belt use are nothing but bullies and thieves. Maybe worse.
Words Poorly Used #114 — Policy
POTUS immediately responds to events with a public relations front. He pats himself and government employees on the backs for doing a great job, long before any rational performance review could take place. Then he begins to make policy before our eyes.