From Drudge is linked this story on Killington, Vermont’s desire to secede to join New Hampshire, which is only 25 miles west. The town’s business owners think that the state of Vermont is nailing them and imposing arbitrary and capricious taxation. The question may end up on the ballot in March.
The question has come up about the economic fallacies buried in the Parker Bros. game “Monopoly”, and it got me thinking. How about a “Territorial Monopoly of Protection” game? Everywhere you land on the board, you go to jail, pay a fine, get regulated, conscripted, or lectured by minions of the state. Your only way to “win” is to land on the “become a state bureaucrat” square.
Because Bush brought up the subject of immigration, see the special issue of the Journal of Libertarian Studies on immigration, and my piece “Natural Order, State, and the Immigration Problem.”
Thomas E. Woods, Jr., on Money and Morality: The Christian Moral Tradition and the Best Monetary Regime (courtesy of Chris Dominguez):
Having for years been subjected to the urban myth that Mises favored operas subsidies, I’m particularly interested in the point Gary North makes here:
Regarding Jeffrey Tucker´s comment on the argument from Richard Lynn and Tatu Vanhanen that national IQ:s are correlated with their level of prosperity, they do not “overlook” economic freedom as a factor behind growth.
Here is my review (in German) of Hoppe’s Myth of National Defense, which appeared Monday, January 5, 2004, in Frankfurter Allgermeine Zeitung.
Thomas DiLorenzo’s dangerous book changes minds, and that’s the problem. Here is yet another attack by an Abe mythologist on The Real Lincoln. I hope Mr. Hibbs will forgive me for not entirely believing his little Booth tale, however.
Hayek biographer Lanny Ebenstein, writing on Hayek-L, draws our attention to a 1980 Hayek interview in which Hayek says:
