Big Government

"Politicians have a vested interest in preventing the alleviation of poverty. If Americans are fully employed and earning continually increasing wages, who needs the thousands of welfare bureaucrats in Washington?"

The lines are getting drawn with increasing clarity. Statism vs. liberty. Us or them.

The bottom line is that, for today's 21-year-old, Social Security is a negative return.

Recorded at FreedomFest, 10 July 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.

Recorded at FreedomFest, 10 July 2010. Includes an introduction by Douglas E. French.

"Because there is no link between the 'revenue' acquired by government agencies and the costs they incur, there is no way of utilizing the yardstick of profitability to evaluate whether agencies are performing a useful function."

It is because the liberal elite believe that, without a massive government, the economy would collapse to zero.

Contrast Austrian Welfare Economics with alternative approaches including Pareto Optimality and Kaldor-Hicks. Recorded at Mises Universi

Is consumer product regulation necessary or does the free market have superior alternatives?

Some 40,000 people perish each year on U.S.