Posts Tagged ‘
the State ’
Apr 18th, 2012 |
By Jeffrey Tucker |
Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
Life is hard enough on its own. Government makes it harder.
I think back to the old Soviet days, which to me typify what it means for a society to be entirely under state control. The government put out a magazine called Soviet Life, and it was filled with pictures of ...
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Tags: despair, government, suicide, the State
Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics |
6 comments
Jan 5th, 2012 |
By Jeffrey Tucker |
Category: Featured, Politics
The political season has unleashed its predictable frenzy, much to delight of people who make a living off it. But to what end? There are only two types of politicians who end up holding office, wrote H.L. Mencken: "first, glorified mob-men who genuinely believe what the mob believes, and secondly, ...
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Tags: illusion of choice in elections, Politics, Robert Higgs, the State
Posted in Featured, Politics |
8 comments
Dec 22nd, 2011 |
By Wendy McElroy |
Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
Throughout most of intellectual history, society has been considered to be the result of someone's design, whether that someone was God, a specific human being (e.g., a monarch) or a group of people (e.g., a government). In his multivolumed Law, Legislation and Liberty, the social theorist Friedrich A. Hayek referred ...
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Tags: Adam Smith, collectives, Hayek, individualism, Karl Marx, Marxism, social holism, spontaneous order, the State, von Mises
Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics |
4 comments
Dec 5th, 2011 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Featured, Politics
A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian ...
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Tags: National Defense Authorization Act, politicians, Section 1031, Section 1032, the State, totalitarianism
Posted in Featured, Politics |
7 comments
Nov 18th, 2011 |
By Gary Gibson |
Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
Is it just us, or does the world seem to be becoming a much more dangerous place lately? Does it feel like, in these uncertain times, violence born of frustration could strike at any minute?
Herman Cain seems to think so. We read today in The Christian Science Monitor:
"Herman Cain on ...
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Tags: greed harmless without politics, Occupy Wall Street, social unrest, the State
Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics |
2 comments
Jun 10th, 2011 |
By Whiskey Contributor |
Category: Featured, Politics
The title of this article encompasses topics that arouse attention and criticism among persons of libertarian persuasion. The discussion of such matters usually treats each issue as though it were sui generis, independent of one another. Most of us respond as though the woman who is groped at the airport ...
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Tags: government, monopoly, the State, TSA, war, War on drugs
Posted in Featured, Politics |
6 comments
Jan 28th, 2011 |
By Scott Lazarowitz |
Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
The Economic Collapse Blog has this list of examples of how European-style “austerity” is already hitting the U.S., including cities closing schools and fire stations, and states eliminating whole state agencies and raising taxes. That includes the state of Illinois whose legislature has passed a “temporary” 66% personal income tax ...
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Tags: America, freedom, government, the State
Posted in Economics, Featured, Politics |
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Jan 24th, 2011 |
By Joel Bowman |
Category: Featured, International, Politics
Left alone, good people tend to do good things. And, when unobstructed by coercion, force, violence or any other tool employed by the state in order to foster and maintain a more “responsible,” “socially conscious” citizenship, most people tend toward being good people...all on their very own.
Nowhere was this sentiment ...
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Tags: anarchy, Australia, floods in Queensland, state coercion, the State
Posted in Featured, International, Politics |
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May 3rd, 2010 |
By Paul Galvin |
Category: Featured, Politics
The following is a fictionalized scenario of what might result if the public schools were eliminated. At the moment this idea has a near-zero, if not zero, chance of happening, particularly in those states whose constitutions now contain or have been construed to contain provisions enshrining a “positive right” to ...
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Tags: freedom, public education, the State
Posted in Featured, Politics |
20 comments
Apr 30th, 2010 |
By Dan Denning |
Category: Featured, Macro Economics
The simple matter is that many nations have been living beyond their means and investors are beginning to doubt governments are good credit risks. That’s saying something, when governments can simply confiscate from the public the money needed to pay bond holders. But debt-to-GDP levels are now so high across ...
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Tags: debt crisis, Greece, the State
Posted in Featured, Macro Economics |
16 comments
