My wife alerted me to this (unintentionally) humorous article on the possibility of replacing (heh) the IRS with a national sales tax. Notice that in order to be “fair” to the poor, people still need to report their income to the government. And check out this quote from a Cato guy: Despite the heavy opposition, even skeptics are loathe to underestimate the “Fair Tax” -- or some variation of it.
Someone has to say it (Robert Samuelson, WashPost) if the privatizers will not:
From Le Quebecois Libre: “Dr. Hoppe, Professor of Economics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, is a remarkable friend of liberty and the free market. His recent book, Democracy: The God that Failed, is a groundbreaking treatise on the inherent harms of unlimited political majority rule and its connection with the progressive deterioration of individual rights and economic freedoms in the countries that practice it. While many genuine advocates of freedom may not agree with some of Dr.
The privatization plot was hatched decades ago as a scheme to get around the need for truth and radical reform. It has amounted to nothing. Such is the price of compromise and “political realism.” The lesson is that there is no substitute for truth – even in politics. [Full Article on LRC]
Concerning the ridiculous piece this morning in the Wall Street Journal, purporting to define and discuss libertarianism within the ranks of Republicans, is supposed to be a humor piece, but Steven Horwitz at Liberty and Power is right: “I can’t tell you how much I hate the “libertarians are Republicans who want to smoke pot/have an abortion/watch porn” line of thought.”
In the preface of The Theory of Money and Credit, Ludwig von Mises wrote: “No very deep knowledge of economics is usually needed for grasping the immediate effects of a measure; but the task of economics is to foretell the remoter effects, and so to allow us to avoid such acts as attempts to remedy a present ill by sowing the seeds of a much greater ill for the future.”
So the latest person on stage at the Hate Tom Woods Club is David Greenberg at Slate, who says that The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History is really “History for Dummies meets John T.
So it turns out that AEI’s award to Mario Vargas Llosa (who spoke about Mises and, on the same day, signed the petition on behalf of Hans Hoppe) was rather controversial among the AEI elite.
