This paper recounts the history of food inspection from a voluntaryist perspective. In England and the United States, the efforts to achieve food safety have relied upon two main methods: education and legislation. Governments did nothing that could not be done on the free market.
The feds claim the chicken industry is trying to exploit the consumer. Yet several decades ago, chicken was more expensive than beef, but thanks to industry efforts, chicken is exceptionally affordable now.
Covid has exposed how easy it is for government to weaponize healthcare. How long will the doctor-patient relationship remain sacred?
Unfortunately, conquest and subjugation of others is hardly a trait unique to Europeans.
Unfortunately, conquest and subjugation of others is hardly a trait unique to Europeans.
The introduction of Obamacare was only the natural evolution of many decades of increasing state control of the healthcare industry.
The introduction of Obamacare was only the natural evolution of many decades of increasing state control of the healthcare industry.
We have reached the end of Murray Rothbard's definitive treatise Man, Economy, and State!
If we want to understand the numbers behind the need to "flatten the curve," we must look at how government programs like Medicare have reduced hospital capacity in recent decades.
If we can spend a few trillion overnight to bail out investors and send out 150 million stimulus checks, why not also launch a universal basic income and a slavery reparations program?
