If the world's most popular historical sites are to be preserved from overuse by tourists, ownership of these places will need to be more forcefully established, and access more carefully controlled.
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San Francisco's public defecation problem is a symptom of its homelessness problem — a problem made far worse by government housing regulations.
Most major sectors in the US economy have been distorted by government policies pushing monopolies and limiting competition.
There's only one way to fund a new public-works project or "stimulus" scheme: through money stolen from the taxpayers.
Recessions emerge when the central bank reverses its loose monetary stance. But the seeds of recession were sown earlier by private lending practices that grew out of central-bank money creation.
As the wage-earning population grows smaller as a proportion of the population, get ready for calls for "wealth taxes" which can keep the taxes coming in even as total wage incomes fall.
If the laws of economics are either unknown or not heeded, the inevitable penalty will be an economy of scarcity and poverty.
The only way to end the booms and busts brought by inflationary credit is to eliminate the central bank's counterfeiting that constitutes and creates that inflation.
West Virginia's secession from Virginia helped Lincoln's government in Washington. So, in that case, secession was apparently A-OK.
