Big Government

The United States Postal Service's incompetence has finally shrieked loud enough for our masters to take notice.

"Every assumption of State power, whether by gift or seizure, leaves society with so much less power."

But there are a few great voices left, and others not so great that are still telling the truth, and these the individual may amplify prodigiously.

The incident points out another lesson in political science, namely, that the state never achieves complete ascendancy over society (if it did, society would disintegrate and the state would collapse from lack of nutrition), and that there are always critics and rebels.

When looking for a thorough and logically consistent analysis of broad market forces and the role of the Federal Reserve in promoting an unsustainable boom in long-term production, Tom Woods‘s Meltdown remains the best choice.

One effect of a minimum wage is to reduce the availability of on-the-job training, since more resources are required simply to hire and retain a workforce.

This is green tyranny at its worst: waste, distortion, and violating liberty in the name of "saving the planet."

Recorded in October 1992 at Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi. Includes a Question and Answer period.

Nowhere in this document or in successive drafts by Mason and Thomas Jefferson do we read words that could lead the reader to conclude that the federal government ought to care for its citizens or that we ought to look out for one another or that a central government ought to violate our individual natural rights to freedom, independence, and property to achieve the absurdity of mandatory equal access, equal price, equal quantity, and equal quality of health care for all.

We have rejected the enrichments of a healthy capitalism in favor of an impoverishing government-run fascism. We have resurrected another great depression — and made America the crisis leader of the world, instead of, what it once was, the beacon for world prosperity.