Thank Joe Biden for Your COVID-Positive Nurse by James Bovard September 1, 2022 If you pick up a COVID infection during your next visit to a hospital or medical office, maybe send a thank-you card to President Biden. His COVID vaccine mandate was one of the most perverse public-health edicts in modern times. Vaccination status went from being a proxy for health to being a substitute for sane healthcare policy. Last September, Biden announced that he was mandating COVID vaccines for all 10 million healthcare workers in America — as well as for any American working for a company employing more than a hundred people. In a televised evening speech, he announced, “My job as president is to protect all Americans.” Actually, his oath of office was to uphold and defend the Constitution, but no matter. Biden issued the equivalent of a declaration of war on 80 million unvaccinated Americans, portraying them as Public Enemy Number One (except for postal workers, who the White House exempted from the mandate due to the clout of ...
Why Not Just Abolish the IRS? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 31, 2022 While some conservatives are criticizing President Biden for hiring 87,000 new well-armed IRS agents under the guise of fighting inflation, I’ve got a better idea: Let’s just abolish the IRS and, at the same time, end the federal income tax. The idea is actually not as radical as it sounds. It certainly wouldn’t have sounded radical to Americans who lived here in the United States from 1776 to 1913. For virtually that entire period of time, Americans lived without federal income taxation and an IRS. That’s right — for more than a century, Americans were free to keep everything they earned, and there was nothing the federal government could do about it. No deductions to keep track of. No income-tax returns to file. No withholding. No IRS to audit, terrorize, and send Americans to jail. That’s what it once meant to be an American. That’s what it once meant to be free. That’s the freedom that ...
87,000 New IRS Agents Will Reduce Inflation? by Jacob G. Hornberger August 30, 2022 REMINDER: I will be speaking at the Ron Paul Institute's annual conference, which this year is being held at the The Westin Washington Dulles Airport. The theme of the conference is "Anatomy of a Police State." See my blog post of yesterday. If you can make it, I am sure you'll be happy you did. If you do attend, please come up and say hello. Register here. -- Jacob ****** Just about everyone, including the most ardent proponents of public (i.e., government) schools, would say that America’s educational system is a chaotic disaster. But as Sheldon Richman observes in FFF’s award-winning book Separating School & State: How to Liberate America’s Families, America’s public-school system is actually a tremendous success. That’s because the system achieves precisely what it is set up to achieve — public-school graduates with deferential mindsets that will automatically mold themselves to accept whatever federal officials tell them, no matter how patently ...
Help FFF Restore Sound Money by Jacob G. Hornberger August 11, 2022 Gas prices are at an all-time high. Rents are skyrocketing. Prices at the grocery store are surging. Prices of new and used cars are spiraling out of control. That’s what happens when the Federal Reserve debases the currency by inflating the money supply, which the Fed has been doing for the past several years and, actually, since its inception ...
It’s Up to Them by Laurence M. Vance August 1, 2022 President Joe Biden has done it again. He’s committed another gaffe. But this comes as no surprise since he acknowledged during a stop on his book tour in 2018 that he was “a gaffe machine,” and has not stopped proving the truth of that statement ever since. In late December of last year, Biden spoke with state governors on a ...
Out of Control Government and Isaiah’s Job by Richard M. Ebeling August 1, 2022 It is very difficult to be a classical liberal or libertarian and not experience bouts of disappointment, frustration, and outright pessimism. The world around us seems to be going to hell in a handbasket. Government continues to grow and, apparently, is out of control. For example, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its semiannual Budget and Economic Outlook, 2022-2032 in ...
Federal Spending Is the Problem with Inflation by Jacob G. Hornberger July 26, 2022 Both conservatives and progressives are lamenting the soaring prices in the American economy. Not surprisingly, many of them are blaming the problem on Covid and, of course, on Russia. If only Covid hadn’t hit and if only Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine, everything in the American economy would be hunky-dory. Progressives are now criticizing the Federal Reserve for threatening ...
Biden versus Trump: What’s the Difference? by Jacob G. Hornberger July 25, 2022 Yesterday, the New York Times carried a news analysis entitled “On U.S. Foreign Policy, the New Boss Acts a Lot Like the Old One.” The article made a very simple point: When it comes to foreign policy, there isn’t much difference between President Biden and former President Trump. Well, duh! As we libertarians have been pointing ...
DeSantis’s Socialist Measures to Condemn Communism by Jacob G. Hornberger July 15, 2022 Republicans sometimes introduce a bit of humor into public life, even if they have no intention of being funny. A recent example is Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. Undoubtedly catering to Cuban-Americans in the hope of garnering their votes, DeSantis recently signed a bill establishing November 7 as “Victims of Communism Day” to honor the millions ...
The Damage of the Libertarian Brand by Jacob G. Hornberger July 7, 2022 In the last two days, critics on Twitter have taken me to task for pointing out in two blog posts (see here and here) that school vouchers are anti-libertarian. They say that there is nothing wrong with libertarians supporting vouchers because (1) vouchers supposedly make things better; (2) vouchers supposedly transition toward the libertarian ideal of ...
7 Ways the Right Has Failed Americans by Laurence M. Vance July 6, 2022 Earlier this year, Republican members of the House held their three-day annual retreat, the House Republican Issues Conference, in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida. “Americans are facing the worst inflation crisis in 40 years and struggling to make ends meet,” said Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, chair of the House Republican Conference. She also mentioned “record high gas prices, a ...
Immigration Socialism, the Drug War, and a Police State by Jacob G. Hornberger July 1, 2022 I grew up on a farm a few miles outside Laredo, Texas, which is located on the U.S.-Mexico border. Our farm was situated on the Rio Grande, so we irrigated our fields from water taken from the river. When we would drive down to the river to fix our irrigation pump, we could see Mexico and would oftentimes wave ...
