Free Markets

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Chodorov's brilliant assessment of the State is a vital contribution both to historical understanding and to the defense of liberty.

So long as we are talking about founding documents, the one that really deserves more attention is the Declaration of Independence. Now here is an inspiring document that shows us where we should go in the future!

The reason for high prices is increased scarcity. The way to solve that is to make it worthwhile for producers to increase supplies. Ease restrictions on new refineries and oil drilling, get rid of taxes on gasoline, and stop threatening to nuke Iran. That would solve the "crisis" very quickly.

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Free — no matter where it comes from — can help sell.

Rather, the real dream has always been to protect wealth from the evils of inflation, and the middle-class housing market generally served that purpose. Housing was the middle class's best hedge against a growing government intent on expanding its scope and power by inflating the money supply. Today, housing looks like a relatively weaker hedge, and if this trend continues, middle-class wage earners will have to find better assets in which to store the brunt of their wealth.

It is capitalism that has created in reality all that the socialists of old imagined their revolution would achieve.

While the free market has been able to address the needs of the consumers of ice time, a government solution would have harmed local residents, and ice consumers and their chosen sports. All area residents would be taxed for the benefit of the few who enjoy the sound of sharp metal slicing through ice, and we — the lovers of ice — would suffer due to the whims of the government bozos who know nothing about, nor even care about, sports on ice.

Statism resounds in the last two paragraphs of