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Libertarianism is Practical and Statism Isn’t

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One of the things that amaze me about life is how so many people remain wedded to statism despite the inherent defectiveness and destructiveness of the statist paradigm. Why remain committed to something — why go into emotional hyper-drive over its failures — why spend a lifetime of coming up with reforms — when it’s obvious that the program can never work? Oftentimes statists get upset at libertarians over what they perceive as our impracticalness. Whenever they’re faced with a new crisis in their statist programs, they say to us libertarians, “Show us your plan for immigration! Show us your plan for the drug war! Show us your plan for public schooling! Show us your plan for Medicare! Show us your plan for welfare.” We libertarians respond, “We have no plans for any of those things because they are all inherently defective. We propose the dismantling or ...

Immigration Socialism versus Freedom and the Free Market

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Let me begin by making a very simple, direct point: There is one — and only one — solution to the so-called immigration crisis: freedom and free markets. Every other measure, including the recently enacted immigration law in Arizona, will accomplish nothing more than continue the “crisis” and actually exacerbate it. After all, how many times have we been here during the past several decades? How many so-called immigration crises have we encountered, followed by countless measures that would supposedly resolve the crisis, only to encounter a new immigration crisis a few years after immigration “reform”? How many times have we been told that if we just adopt one more measure — laws against transporting, laws against harboring, laws against employing, highway checkpoints, warrantless searches of private ranches and farms along the border, raids on businesses, amnesty, a border fence, and all the rest — the immigration “crisis” would finally be resolved. It has never happened, and it will never happen ...