The popular pastime of modern democracies of punishing the diligent and thrifty, while rewarding the lazy, improvident, and unthrifty, is cultivated via the State, fulfilling a demo-egalitarian program based on a demo-totalitarian ideology.
Macron says vaccines are not compulsory for the general public for now, but they are essentially required for anyone who wants to live a normal life.
For the libertarian, the way forward is not joining in left-right political boxing matches, but secession. The success of libertarianism is independence from the state’s influence.
Canada‘s “private” long-term care homes are anything but private. But the fact a small sliver of the marketplace is allowed to charge fees for services means activists want even more socialized medicine.
Destructive ideas almost unavoidably derive from a destructive and—in the case of Marxism—rather repulsive person.
US car owners are being preyed upon by thieves, because South African mine owners are being preyed upon by their government.
In a free, unhampered market economy, individuals’ expectations are likely to correspond to the facts of reality. But we live in an economy where central banks routinely distort market signals and deceive the public.
The public usually doesn't understand how fiat money expansion benefits the regime at their expense. The regime likes it that way.
Anticapitalism's origins are not found with the workers. Rather, it came from the aristocrats and middle-class intellectuals who harbored resentment and fear of the rising entrepreneurial and industrial classes.
When the government pays people not to work, that means fewer people producing fewer goods. And that means a poorer society. More government spending won't change this fact.
