Taxation Is Robbery
It took centuries to end the idea that taxes kept the privileged class in comfort and financed their wars. But now we're told taxes = civilization.
It took centuries to end the idea that taxes kept the privileged class in comfort and financed their wars. But now we're told taxes = civilization.
In this time of war and uncertainty, we should expect to see the prices of precious metals rise and fall and the only certainty will be uncertainty.
In this time of war and uncertainty, we should expect to see the prices of precious metals rise and fall and the only certainty will be uncertainty.
Javier Milei, whatever one thinks of his time in office, is surely the only national leader in the world who claims Murray Rothbard has inspired many of his actions to stem the economic and social decline in Argentina.
How does one act counterculturally and rebel against the systems of dependency? How do young people learn to act wisely without examples? Knowing how to see through the smoke and mirrors of the inflation culture is a necessary skill for a freer and more peaceful tomorrow.
Government entities like the Postal Service operate in a world of market prices, so they are not fully socialist. However, they still are subject to the limitations of socialist calculation problems.
The ongoing destruction of the world’s largest natural-gas reservoir at South Pars and Qatar has produced exactly what Austrian economics predicts: sudden, irreplaceable capital destruction followed by a violent supply shock.
People claim to support economic intervention because the market cannot be trusted to be “stable” enough to keep the economy out of recessions. However, it is government itself, not the free market, which creates the instability in the first place.
Dr. Tate Fegley uses Rothbard's theory of demonstrated preference to dismantle the mainstream public goods framework, showing that claims of market failure and welfare improvement by the state have no scientific basis because they contradict what individuals actually reveal through their choices.
The TSA stories, especially at Atlanta, are illustrations of interventionist non-intervention: non-delivery of promised, paid-for, and monopolized service.