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Great Times Spreading Liberty in Milwaukee

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Part of my spring and summer was spent in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, spreading ideas on liberty. It started out with an invitation to speak before a group called the Wisconsin Forum, whose origins go back decades. It is a private group composed of libertarians and conservatives who invite speakers to address the club on issues relating to liberty. I was invited to speak on “The Case for Open Borders.” But before I addressed the Wisconsin Forum, I received invitations to speak on the same subject to students at two different schools in Milwaukee: Brookfield Academy and the Academy of Excellence. Brookfield is one of the finest private schools in Wisconsin. Among the founders was a man named Bill Law, who was president of a Milwaukee company named Cudahy Tanning Company. I first encountered Bill when I attended a summer seminar at The ...

Hands Off My Cadillac!

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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or ACA), better known as Obamacare, was signed into law by Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. It was one of the most partisan pieces of legislation in history. Not a single Republican in the House or the Senate voted in favor of the bill (H.R. 3590, P.L. 111–148). The ACA expanded Medicaid eligibility, created state health-insurance exchanges, instituted federal subsidies for the purchase of health insurance, eliminated co-payments and deductibles for selected health-insurance benefits, required the guaranteed issue of insurance policies without regard to pre-existing conditions, prohibited annual and lifetime limits on the dollar value of essential health benefits, mandated that certain employers provide health insurance, and mandated that every individual not covered by Medicaid, Medicare, or health insurance purchase health insurance or pay a penalty. But in spite of those “reforms,” Obamacare is basically a collection of new taxes masquerading as a health-care law. The ACA increases the ...