The following edited comments are excerpted from a recent email discussion with Walter Block and one of his correspondents, a Philosophy Professor (designated [PhilProf] below):
Looks like the Chicago city council wants to require every dog to be implanted with a microchip ID, limit tethering, pay fines for letting them roam free and choose between neutering or higher license charges. Also, “grooming, boarding and doggie day-care facilities would be licensed and subject to strict operating standards...”
Says a Chicago tyrant:
Mises has emphasized the central role of calculation in a developed economic order. This is not an allegorical term but quite literal. He means adding, subtracting and otherwise calculating with numbers... Numbers that are money prices arising from private property.
The Club For Growth takes note of this funny speech by Rep. Barney Frank (socialist!), in which he says: “Mr. Chairman, I am here to confess my reading incomprehension. I have listened to many of my conservative friends talk about the wonders of the free market, of the importance of letting the consumers make their best choices, of keeping government out of economic activity, of the virtues of free trade, but then I look at various agricultural programs like this one.
This last week, the attorney general said that he would consider prosecuting any journalist or newspaper that published classified information that had been leaked. “There are some statutes on the book which, if you read the language carefully, would seem to indicate that that is a possibility,” he said.
