Legal System

"Since most matter in the universe could be used to encode an idea, intellectual property is a claim over the entire universe."

Recorded at Mises University 2009.

Recorded at Mises University 2009.

Recorded at Mises University 2009.

One effect of a minimum wage is to reduce the availability of on-the-job training, since more resources are required simply to hire and retain a workforce.

This is not the only instance in which Frank refutes his own arguments. Like most good leftists, Frank dislikes SUVs.

The whole notion of paying off past investors with the funds of present investors is at the very core of the Social Security system. At least Madoff sought the consent of his investors who let him care for their money based on their own volition. And at least he didn't attempt to defend himself with the claim that he was conducting wise public policy.

Another way of saying this is that any government with the power to take an atheist's money and give it to my church is also a government with the power to take my money and give it to Planned Parenthood. When we use force to restrict others' liberty, we endanger our own.

The State is the group within society that claims for itself the exclusive right to rule everyone under a special set of laws that permit it to do to others what everyone else is rightly prohibited from doing, namely aggressing against person and property.

From Part I of Defending the Undefendable, “Sexual.” Read by Jeff Riggenbach.