Interventionism

Antitrust action like this is wrong on moral, theoretical, and practical grounds.

What should you give up in order to make your payments? Food, education, transportation, funds to live on in old age?

Business capital alone is insufficient to ensure prosperity; business capital must be combined with entrepreneurial sagacity.

Unemployment, stagnant growth, and financial market convulsions can all be traced to a single decision.

The expansion of the public sector since 9/11 to promote the mushrooming welfare and warfare states has left very little capital for small business, where 70 percent of job creation occurs. The result: the US economy has had virtually zero private-sector job growth since 4Q 2001.

Although it is admirable that you are putting up your own money, economic analysis shows that your "solutions" will not work. The so-called root causes of crime and poverty in urban areas today can be tied to destructive government policies such as  the drug war, the minimum wage, compulsory schooling, and high taxes. 

Not many Americans have heard of Richard Vedder and Lowell Gallaway, but maybe more should.

Vigilantism has deep roots in American history and culture. From tales of the Wild West to the caped-crusading Batman, the act of standing up to thugs is part of the national ethos. And the assumption of personal responsibility for self-defense is what drives the uniquely American pro-gun movement.

Starting with President Bush, and continuing into President Obama’s term, the US government has paid out more than $11 trillion in stimulus money.

Why is real, free-market growth so hated by the political classes?