Big Government

In many schools around the country, students deal with both physical and emotional aggression each day such that school becomes more about surviving than thriving.

On this episode of Radio Rothbard, Ryan and Tho discuss a recent op-ed from a trio of octogenarian former Republican senators lamenting the state of the GOP.

Politicians, bolstered by economic quackery such as modern monetary theory, believe they face no fiscal constraints as they impose their visions upon us. But costs are real things and economic, reality sooner or later sets in.

Anarchy is not chaos, and the state does not provide order.

Even though people are leaving California and New York in droves due in large part to their ruinous taxes, the state authorities are tracking these emigrants down and demanding they continue to pay state taxes. Right out of Orwell.

Do we need government to referee all of our property disputes? Throughout history, people have peacefully resolved disputes without the help of state authorities. 

Congress claims to have targeted TikTok because China's government allegedly uses it to spy on Americans. Besides dealing with a nonexistent threat, the bill gives the federal government vast new powers to misuse.

In publicly opposing apartheid, William H. Hutt saw how legal segregation kept black South Africans from pursuing legitimate economic goals. To Hutt, apartheid deprived people of equality of economic opportunity, which kept them in poverty.

For most Americans, the debate is about what size the welfare state should be. But why is there a welfare state at all? 

Political and academic elites have successfully convinced the public that they should fear private enterprise. However, people really should fear an out-of-control government.