The Case for Ebenezer
"To all collectivists, including Dickens, the idea that more wealth could be created never manages to invade their imaginations."
"To all collectivists, including Dickens, the idea that more wealth could be created never manages to invade their imaginations."
The inevitable result will be the complete dissolution of the private health-insurance market.
The Austrian, broad approach to the study of social reality is something which legal theorists could very much benefit from.
The human desire for freedom has always run up against those who believe "too much" freedom is a bad thing and that the "common good" — as defined by some elite — outweighs the rights of the individual.
Now, under the influence of the antidiscrimination paradigm and "human rights" law, men are being told that their human dignity requires the enslavement of a woman who does not wish to provide them with a holiday tour.
The greatest economic charity is that which enables persons to become independent of alms and therefore most self-reliant and secure under freedom.
"We don't know how many jobs have been lost because of the ones that have theoretically been saved or created."
Scalpers fight against the notion that people must be protected from free, uncoerced exchanges.
As the gifts from these businesses pour in, think of it as a sign that this recession has not been nearly deep enough or gone on nearly long enough.
"Good government" seems to involve reckless spending by Washington, endless printing at the Fed, and bailout after bailout.