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The Jackboots Of The Virus Patrol

by David Stockman April 20, 2020

Say what? It seems that the mainstream politicians and commentariat have gone so far off the deep-end on the Covid-19 that it takes a pair of socialists from south of the border to clear the air. That’s right. We are referring to Mr .Lopez-Gatell, Mexico’s minister of health and pedigreed PhD epidemiologist from John-Hopkins and his boss, President Obrador, a true ...

Economic Impossibilities

by Laurence M. Vance April 17, 2020

Just as certain things are impossible in mathematics, accounting, chemistry, and physics, so also in economics. Adding two even numbers together can never result in an odd number. Assets cannot but equal liabilities plus equities. Oil and water do not mix. Atmospheric pressure does not increase with an increase in height. When the price of a good rises, the amount ...

Will there Be Tyranny in the Post-Coronavirus World?

by Richard M. Ebeling April 16, 2020

The coronavirus crisis will be considered one of the most important global events of the early decades of the 21st century. Like a pebble that is dropped in a pond of water from which a series of waves are sent out across its surface, the virus has created waves of hundreds of thousands of human victims in countries all ...

Republicans Are Now Good For Exactly …….. Nothing!

by David Stockman April 13, 2020

Nancy Pelosi, Chuckles Schumer and the rest of the Dem wrecking crew surely have the Trumpified GOP by the short hairs. The latter are clueless about the real imperative, which is to halt the senseless shutdown of the US economy ASAP. So like deer caught in the headlights of public fear, outrage and hurt by the Covid Quarantines, they have ...

Be Equally Aware of Government Scams

by Laurence M. Vance April 9, 2020

During this time of national crisis over the coronavirus, scammers, fraudsters, hucksters, and assorted con men have come out of the woodwork. According to the article “4 Coronavirus Scams That Could Cost You,” Because so many people are feeling vulnerable right now, it’s a prime time for scammers to strike. These fraudsters take advantage of the fear ...

The Press Conference Trump Should Hold Now

by Richard M. Ebeling April 7, 2020

Every late afternoon, the American people have been able to tune into a presidential press conference detailing the day’s events and governmental decisions concerning the coronavirus. Donald Trump is usually joined by vice president Mike Pence, and medical experts, Dr. Anthony Fouci and Dr. Deborah Birx, who are on the president’s coronavirus taskforce, plus other members of his presidential ...

Right Policy, Wrong Reason

by Laurence M. Vance April 6, 2020

Before Donald Trump indicated his support for the current coronavirus-relief program, he broached the idea of a payroll-tax cut. In addition to the money withheld from paychecks for income tax, there are, thanks to the Federal Insurance Contributions Act (FICA), two payroll taxes: Social Security and Medicare. The Social Security tax rate is 12.4 percent (split equally between employer and employee) ...

The Lesson of a Crash that Cured Itself

by Wendy McElroy April 3, 2020

If a government wishes to alleviate, rather than aggravate, a depression, its only valid course is laissez-faire—to leave the economy alone. Only if there is no interference, direct or threatened, with prices, wage rates and business liquidation, will the necessary adjustment proceed with smooth dispatch. — Murray Rothbard, America’s Great Depression The economic disruption caused by ...

What Comes After the Coronavirus, Freedom or Despotism?

by Richard M. Ebeling April 2, 2020

Chinese The coronavirus crisis that has enveloped the world has brought about calls for society and economy-wide action on the part of governments that has been matched by the imposing of radical shutdowns and compulsory mass quarantining as tens of millions of people are told to not to go to work and to stay at home ...

Reform versus Liberty

by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2020

Americans alive today have grown up in what libertarians term a welfare-warfare state. It is a system in which the primary purpose of the federal government is to take care of people and keep them safe and secure. This type of governmental system is also sometimes referred to as a paternalistic state, given that the federal government essentially plays ...

Impeachment Reminder of Our Toxic Foreign Aid

by James Bovard April 1, 2020

Foreign aid to Ukraine helped spur the Democrats’ effort to impeach and remove President Trump earlier this year. Ukraine was supposed to be on the verge of great progress until Trump pulled the rug out from under the heroic salvation effort by U.S. government bureaucrats. Unfortunately, Congress has devoted a hundred times more attention to the timing of aid ...

Religion and Education in a Free Society

by Laurence M. Vance April 1, 2020

Montgomery County, Maryland, which lies just outside of Washington, D.C., is one of America’s richest and most populous counties. It is also home to the largest school system in Maryland and fourteenth-largest in the United States. For the current school year (2019-2020), the Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) system has 208 schools, more than 165,000 students, more than 24,000 ...