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The Fundamental Rights of the European Union: Individual Rights or Welfare-State Privileges? Part 2

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IN NOVEMBER 1934, during the dark years of growing tyranny throughout Europe, British historian Ramsey Muir penned a short article that appeared in the pages of the journal The Nineteenth Century and After. His theme was “civilization and liberty.” He asked how it was that of all the civilizations around the world, only the one centered in Europe had succeeded in flourishing in terms of sustained freedom and prosperity. Europe, he pointed out, had not always had either freedom or prosperity. These were relatively new phenomena, evolved during the preceding four or five hundred years. Their roots, however, went back far into European history. They had their origins in the ancient Greek world, with its emphasis on reason and the importance of pursuing a knowable truth, and in the Christian heritage of an equality of all men before a Supreme Maker that would eventually come to challenge the ...

Anarcho-Anti-Immigrationism?

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For reasons not exactly clear, the immigration issue gives some libertarians trouble. In their efforts to grapple with the issue, it’s made needlessly complicated and some highly odd “solutions” are promulgated. We’ll look at one such solution in this article. Preliminarily, we would expect that when a libertarian examines any public-policy issue his concern is to roll back and contain government power so that the way is cleared for the exercise of individual rights in a free-market and property regime. This ought to be true especially in the case of an anarcho-libertarian, for while the limited-government libertarian would stop his roll-back of government power at the traditional police, military, and court functions, the anarcho-libertarian would keep going until government power disappears altogether. The anti-immigration argument we are about to examine comes from an anarcho-libertarian, ...

A Historian Looks at Tax Havens

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The recent attack on tax havens by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has depicted about 20–30 countries, called tax havens, as destructive of the high tax systems of the world, especially Europe. The OECD argues that its members should gang up on these nations and shut down their financial centers unless their banking facilities are made “transparent” (a word of art they use, which means to place their banking information at the disposal of the national tax authorities of the world). For those centers that will not do so, the OECD plans to place a banking embargo on their banks, preventing them from doing any banking with the OECD. This is a bold, aggressive move that would put an end to the ancient principle of English liberty that a “man’s castle is beyond the surveillance of the king.” The OECD argues that ...