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Who Was Tony Timpa?

by Keith Knight | Jul 26, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/zQiIPeHLQp4 “Unless it be to do justice on an offender,” Locke continued, no one may “take away, or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another.” Long traces out a key implication of this idea: “Lockean equality involves not merely equality before legislators, judges, and police, but, far more crucially, equality with legislators, judges, and police.” One moral standard for all, no exceptions, no privileges. That’s a fitting summation of the libertarian philosophy. The good news is that most people are more...

“Only Politicians Have Rights!” – A Propaganda Analysis of The Myth of Ownership

by Keith Knight | Jul 24, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/Gah1kDo0UcE The very same people who say that government has no right to interfere with sexual activity between consenting adults believe that the government has every right to interfere with economic activity between consenting adults. – Thomas Sowell, Ph.D., “Looking for That Elusive Escalator to Success,” Sun Sentinel, Jan. 2000. Patrick Smith is the President of Voluntary Virtue and host of Disenthrall. BitChute Flote Archive Spotify

A Right-Wing Critique of the Police State – Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

by Keith Knight | Jul 22, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/7S19xsdp074 The next step in the development of what would later become anarcho-capitalism was the radical one taken by Gustave de Molinari, in his essay “The Private Production of Security.” Molinari asked if the production of defense services, which even the classical liberals took for granted had to be carried out by the State, might be accomplished by private firms under market competition. Molinari made express reference to the insight we have been developing thus far, that society operates according to fixed, intelligible laws. If this is so, he said, then the...

Why Democratic Socialists Are Wrong About “Profit”

by Keith Knight | Jul 20, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/Eg9OIssCmsc One of the most incredible attributes of free markets is the ability to harmonize our self-interests with the interests of greater society. Contrary to the popular demonization of profits as extraction of surplus value, profits in freed markets actually represent the adding of value to society. Making a profit in free markets requires one to combine or transform some good(s) in such a way that its resulting configuration is valued more by the consumer than the cost of labor and original materials, including time, used to produce it. - Spontaneous Order: The...

The Voluntaryist Handbook: Self-Ownership and Its Implications

by Keith Knight | Jul 18, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/xGrh6D3o8Kw One need look no further than to the examples of North and South Korea or East and West Germany to see that the freer people are, the wealthier they can become through mutually beneficial voluntary exchange. These two controlled experiments, where mostly free markets competed against mostly state-controlled economies, have yielded an undeniable result: the more free, the more prosperous. - The Voluntaryist Handbook: Essays, Excerpts, and Quotes, p. 301 BitChute Minds Archive Flote Spotify

How the Criminal Lockdowns Hurt Small Business (feat. Carol Roth)

by Keith Knight | Jul 14, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/Hxdz6AgAmgs ... one of the most significant ways in which the government could aid the poor is by removing its own direct roadblocks from their productive energies. Thus, minimum wage laws disemploy the poorest and least productive members of the population. Government privileges to trade unions enable them to keep the poorer and minority-group workers from productive and high-wage employment. And licensing laws, the outlawing of gambling, and other government restrictions prevent the poor from starting small businesses and creating jobs on their own. Murray N. Rothbard,...

Free Market Capitalism Works – Real World Examples by Thomas Sowell

by Keith Knight | Jul 11, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/-QKRNuYO8aY Similar comparisons could be made between Burma and Thailand, the former having had the higher standard of living before instituting socialism, and the latter a much higher standard of living afterwards. Other countries—India, Germany, China, New Zealand, South Korea, Sri Lanka—have experienced sharp upturns in their economies when they freed those economies from many government controls and relied more on prices to allocate resources. As of 1960, India and South Korea were at comparable economic levels but, by the late 1980s, South Korea’s per capita income was...

Refuting the Progressive Idea of Equality of Opportunity (feat. Danny Duchamp)

by Keith Knight | Jul 9, 2022 | Don't Tread on Anyone

https://youtu.be/6FYCnlDhefE ... the natural inequality of ability and of interest among men must make elites inevitable, the only sensible course is to abandon the chimera of equality and accept the universal necessity of leaders and followers. Dr. Murray N. Rothbard, Economic Controversies, p. 631 Danny Duchamp creates essays and videos on philosophy, economics and politics from a consequentialist libertarian perspective. Danny Duchamp's website BitChute Flote Archive Spotify