The Drug War Is Teetering (and That’s Good!) by Jacob G. Hornberger April 26, 2016 The drug war is teetering. Support for ending this federal fiasco continues to grow all across the political spectrum. The latest instance is the United Nations — if you can believe that, where officials from all over the world have been discussing the possibility of ending this failed, deadly, destructive, and corrupt government program. Notice that drug-war proponents, including those ...
Tubman versus Jackson on the $20 Bill by Jacob G. Hornberger April 25, 2016 Amidst the tempest produced among politicians and the mainstream press over the Obama administration’s decision to replace Andrew Jackson with Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill, no one bothers to ask some very simple questions: Why does the $20 bill say: “Federal Reserve Note” on it? Doesn’t the term “note” connote a promissory note, which entails a promise to ...
Compassion, Morality, and the Repeal of Social Security by Jacob G. Hornberger April 22, 2016 In my last three blog posts ( (here, here, and here), I have shown that Social Security is just another welfare program, no different from all other welfare programs, including food stamps, farm subsidies, aid to the arts, and foreign aid to dictators. I have also shown the fundamental immorality that Social Security shares with all other socialist programs ...
The Immorality of Social Security by Jacob G. Hornberger April 21, 2016 Social Security is based on the same principle that all other welfare-state programs are based on: the forcible taking of money from people to whom it rightly belongs and giving it to people to whom it does not belong. As I have explained this week in my two previous articles on Social Security (here and here), during their ...
Hornberger’s Video Tidbit: Is Hillary Qualified to Be President? by Jacob G. Hornberger April 21, 2016
Social Security Is Definitely Welfare by Jacob G. Hornberger April 20, 2016 After posting my article yesterday, I received several emails from a FFF supporter, with whom I often engage in very enjoyable exchanges, telling me that I am wrong about Social Security. Attempting to distinguish Social Security from food stamps and other welfare programs, he steadfastly insists that Social Security is not a welfare program or a dole program ...
Social Security Is Welfare, Just Like Food Stamps by Jacob G. Hornberger April 19, 2016 The Social Security program is a perfect example of how people can deceive and delude themselves when it comes to socialist programs. Advocates of Social Security have long convinced themselves that Social Security is a savings-retirement program rather than a welfare program. It is a classic case of the life of the lie — the life of self-deception. In reality, ...