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Monday, July 31, 2006
In a 230-180 vote, the House of Representatives voted to increase the minimum wage, a type of law that any reputable economist will tell you does nothing more than condemn people to unemployment.
After all, look at the logic. No employer is required to hire anyone. It’s his business. He’s going to hire someone who he believes will be worth more to him than it costs to hire the person. Thus, if the law requires someone to pay $6 an hour, no employer is going to hire anyone whose labor he values at less than $6.
So what happens to all the workers whose labor is valued in the marketplace at less than $6? They’re locked out of the labor market by a $6 minimum-wage law. So, how do they survive? Through burglaries, robberies, muggings, or taxpayer-provided welfare.
Yet, the congressmen who voted in favor of the minimum-wage increase would undoubtedly cry, “We did it to help the poor!”
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Friday, June 30, 2006
Ever since the 9/11 attacks, The Future of Freedom Foundation has not wavered in its firm opposition to the Pentagon’s torture camp and its kangaroo military tribunals that it set up in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with the express purpose of avoiding the constraints of the U.S. Constitution and federal court interference. In my November 2001 article entitled “Emergencies, Military Tribunals, and the Constitution,” I stated:
“What should disturb every American is that the president is now ignoring not only the Constitution's declaration-of-war requirement (which prohibits the president from sending the nation into war without a congressional declaration) but also the Bill of Rights. If the president feels free to ignore those important provisions of the Constitution -- with virtually no opposition from the citizenry -- why wouldn't he feel free to ignore other provisions?”
In my December 2001 article, “Military Tribunals: Another Step Away from Our Principles,” I stated,
“President Bush's plan to form military ...
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
In a speech to a friendly audience at West Point, President Bush announced that the “war on terrorism” would ultimately rival the Cold War in its length and difficulty.
The corollary, which Bush didn’t mention, is that this will be perpetually increasing budgets for the military-industrial complex, a point that the graduates of West Point would undoubtedly be interested in.
Think about it: As effective as the Cold War was in producing ever-increasing budgets for the Pentagon and the “defense” contractors, there was always the possibility — albeit remote — that the Cold War would end.
But then the Soviet Union did fall and — uh, oh — what then?
Well, obviously, we need a brand new justification for those ever-increasing Pentagon-CIA-State Department budgets, right?
The beauty of the “war on terrorism,” from the standpoint of the big-government crowd, is that it will never come to an end because there are always going to be terrorists somewhere to bring ...
Saturday, December 31, 2005
Our government is mired in such wrongful conduct as torture, denial of due process, denial of jury trials, spying on Americans, warrantless recording of citizens’ telephone calls, military interference with the criminal justice system, military denigration of the Constitution, brutal sanctions on overseas people, wars of aggression, military occupations, secret Soviet-era torture centers overseas, kidnapping of ...
