Private Property

Just before Christmas I received the following from Joe Fullmer, and submit it to readers for their

Ideas matter. More than we know. Why haven't we won? Because we are not doing enough and our ranks are not big enough. We need to do what we are doing on ever-grander scales. We need to make ever-better arguments on behalf of liberty. And we need to have patience, just like the prohibitionists and socialists had patience to see their agenda to the end.

Public goods are a cover for coercion, and public high school football is a private good funded by someone else's tax bill. Don't believe otherwise.

Both the Law of the Sea and the Antarctic Treaty need to be ignored as relics of the socialist past.

The issue of whether non-scarce things like thoughts or labor are ownable has arisen in recent debates—see, e.g.,

As interviewed on CBC’s CKVU and on “WestCoast,” December 4-5, 1989

Globalization is the process of bringing the entire world into the system of division of labor and thus into the system of social cooperation…

Without a market for blood, people will die. Do we really want to sacrifice more lives in service to the god of socialist economic management?

In the eyes of the parties who style themselves progressive and leftist the main vice of capitalism is the inequality of incomes and wealth.

It is private property and market prices or the law of the jungle, and no amount of fashionable cynicism about the market or romantic delusions about how nice life would be without it can obscure this fundamental choice.