Want Health Care for Everyone? End the Regulatory Regime (feat. Blake Masters)

Want Health Care for Everyone? End the Regulatory Regime (feat. Blake Masters)

by | Oct 7, 2022 |

https://youtu.be/Yhcm5pegHPE Some critics of the free market argue that property rights are in conflict with “human” rights. But the critics fail to realize that in a free-market system, every person has a property right over his own person and his own labor, and that he can make free contracts for those services. Slavery violates the basic property right of the slave over his own body and person, a right that is the groundwork for any person’s property rights over nonhuman material objects. What’s more, all rights are human rights, whether it is everyone’s right to free speech or one...

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The Squad is Wrong About “Inequality”

The Squad is Wrong About “Inequality”

by | Oct 7, 2022 |

     The rapid economic advance that we have come to expect seems in a large measure to be the result of this inequality and to be impossible without it. Progress at such a fast rate cannot proceed on a uniform front but must take place in echelon fashion... At any stage of this process there will always be many things we already know how to produce but which are still too expensive to provide for more than a few...   All the conveniences of a comfortable home, of our means of transportation and communication, of entertainment and enjoyment, we could produce at first only in limited...

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The Carl Sagan Case Against Democracy

The Carl Sagan Case Against Democracy

by | Oct 6, 2022 |

  We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. - Carl Sagan, BrainyQuote How has science and technology advanced when "we the people" never "voted" for such a thing to occur? Democracy advocates claim that 'if we don't vote on X through the political process, we will have no influence on X, and X will benefit only the very few'. Does anyone think Seinfeld would have been funnier if script writing had been put to a popular vote? Would printers work better if people who know nothing about printers...

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AOC is 100% Wrong About Inequality

AOC is 100% Wrong About Inequality

by | Oct 5, 2022 |

...[I]n 1800 AD, 95% of the world was destitute, living in what we’d now consider extreme poverty. In 1900 AD, about 75% were.   Now, maybe 9% of people are, while nine out of ten people live above extreme poverty. In 1950, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan were very poor. Singer would have said we have duties to give our extra income to their citizens. In 2020, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan are very rich—indeed, the average person in Singapore is now richer than the average American. Singer today would say the Japanese, Koreans, etc.,have...

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Socialist Greed vs. Free Market “Greed”

Socialist Greed vs. Free Market “Greed”

by | Oct 4, 2022 |

  A common scam involves taking a constant reality that always applies to everyone, then uniquely applying it to one set of people or one set of ideas. Which of the following sounds more greedy to you?:   Give me your money or I'll have my employees put you in a jail cell and shoot you if you resist (taxation) I cannot get a penny out of your pocket unless you voluntarily give it to me in exchange for a product, service, or charitable gift   Most of us fear social disapproval, so being called greedy decreases our confidence in promoting the voluntarist ideas of free markets....

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Voluntary Charity Gave Us the Statue of Liberty and the Salisbury Cathedral

Voluntary Charity Gave Us the Statue of Liberty and the Salisbury Cathedral

by | Oct 3, 2022 |

764 years ago, the Salisbury Cathedral was consecrated in England. Considered the oldest example of early Gothic architecture in England, the old beauty maintains the largest cloister, the tallest spire, and the largest external park or “cathedral close,” of any cathedral in Britain. Inside are also one of the oldest continual-working clocks, and one of the 4 surviving copies of the Magna Carta....Construction was paid for by donations, principally from the canons and vicars of southeast England, who were asked to contribute a fixed annual sum until the building was completed. - Good News in...

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The Sad Truth About American Foreign Policy

The Sad Truth About American Foreign Policy

by | Oct 2, 2022 |

https://youtu.be/YynHmjv1hmQ After America emerged as the undisputed leader of the West in 1945, however, the shocks, reversals, and humiliations at the hands of Stalin were greater than those that had caused Britain to declare war in 1939. America, however, chose a different course. Embracing the wisdom of George Kennan, America pursued a policy of containment and conscious avoidance of a Third World War.   When Stalin trashed the Yalta agreement, terrorizing the peoples of Poland and Eastern Europe for whom Britain had gone to war, America was stunned and sickened but issued no...

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Military Conscription is Slavery

Military Conscription is Slavery

by | Oct 2, 2022 |

Anytime a sane person mentions the reality that military conscription is forced labor under vile conditions and therefore slavery, the person is almost always met with "but soldiers got paid." The bizarre response comes from the term "free labor" and the assumptions that follow. "Free" (to them) means no labor costs, thus the opposite of "free" is "paid", therefore the problem with slavery was the amount of compensation involved. But of course running a plantation is expensive, the main reason rich people were more likely to own slaves than poor people. This allows the culprit to be money,...

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