Free Markets

Hence, it is our major task to oppose and desanctify their entrenched rule, in the same spirit that the first libertarian revolutionaries opposed and desanctified their rulers two hundred years ago.

Children of Men director Alfonso Cuaron, writes in the

Judge Posner, rather than recognize this and the threat it poses to life and liberty, instead mongers fear and urges us to cede more power to government over highly speculative possibilities, all the while dismissing civil libertarians as "ignorant."

Thus, we are left with the prospect of Congress forcing us to use less fossil-based fuels (which are cost-effective and efficient) and replace those fuels with government-approved fuels, which are prohibitively expensive and inefficient.

It is no coincidence that many who oppose immigration also oppose free trade, support the war on drugs, and repeatedly suggest as remedies for every social ill more prisons, more regulations, more prosecutions, more fines, and more government.

[cross-posted at Austro-Athenian Empire and

We don't have capitalism in New Orleans or anywhere else, of course. Only government can grant monopoly privilege to put obstacles in the way of people getting what they need.

The government, famed for building bridges to nowhere, can’t replace a bridge blown down by Hurricane Katrina in four times the time required

Capitalists and entrepreneurs will have to be convinced that a new social system will keep their investments safe from government appropriation — no small task.

The best solution is also the simplest: get the state out of the way.