Röpke Stood Against the Tide
Unfortunately, welfarist ideas are still careening down the highway with as much dangerous momentum as was the case when Röpke was still alive.
Unfortunately, welfarist ideas are still careening down the highway with as much dangerous momentum as was the case when Röpke was still alive.
The expansion of the welfare state is used to legitimize the expansion of the corporatist-warfare state. We march towards slavery, accompanied by songs of fairness and change.
Government jobs offer no opportunity for the display of personal talents and gifts.
"Mandated recycling exists mainly because there is plenty of money to be made by labeling products as "green" or "recycled" to get municipal and federal grants."
Timothy Roth has in earlier work offered a penetrating criticism of modern welfare economics.
Given that the official House version of Obama’s healthcare plan, HR 3962, has now passed, a close examination of the effects of “Obamacare” on the labor market is important.
"The computer models that incorporate the greenhouse-gas theory are being massively contradicted by current readings."
In the case of the current housing meltdown, the Austrian case is definitely right.
Now, bread is baked by government.
And as might be expected,
Everything is well controlled;
The public well protected.
True, loaves cost a dollar each.
But our leaders do their best.
The selling price is half a cent.
(Taxes pay the rest!)
What is necessary from people of all sides is refraining from initiating the use of force, no matter what the goal.