The Wicked Work of Medical Patents
Patents are one of many driving forces behind rising medical costs. It is not just MRI machines.
Legal System
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To Tax Is to Destroy
If you are a wealthy person, beware. The estate tax will destroy what you have created through your hard work and diligence. Unless you have spent a small fortune on financial planners, accountants, and tax attorneys, the fruits of your labor may be enjoyed by the government.
Who Owns the Sky?
Many in Congress were troubled by the question of whether the Constitution authorized them to pass such legislation.
Utah Recognizes Gold Coins to Be Money
What if this law in the state of Utah catches on? What if people started to price goods and services on the basis that $20 equals an ounce of gold?
The Tyranny of Government Courts and Prisons
Compulsory labor permeates our legal and judicial structure: we are forced to play along with all they demand.
The Social Function of Insurance
With insurance the client pays a small amount of money (the premium) in exchange for a more certain future, in which his wealth will not fluctuate as wildly in different possible scenarios.
Use the Dollar or Else
Look up the phrase “a unique form of domestic terrorism” on a search engine and you will turn up a story about a man whom the US governmen
Criminal Justice Is No Job for the State
The United States has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world, with 1 in 100 people behind bars. The prison population in America equals that of the cities of Los Angeles and Miami combined. This is an egregious form of statism. It's time we stop ignoring this issue.
Clarence Darrow on Freedom, Justice, and War
The Clarence Darrow of 1902 was on pretty much the same wavelength as the Murray Rothbard of 80 years later. They both rejected the statist means.
No Treason, no. 1
Before the civil war, there were some grounds for saying that, at least in theory, our government was a free one — that it rested on consent.
