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Open Immigration with a Welfare State

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Although free-market economist Milton Friedman defended the principle of open immigration, he had a caveat: “It's just obvious you can't have free immigration and a welfare state.” Conservatives and even some libertarians have long used Friedman’s statement to justify their support of government-controlled immigration. But Friedman was wrong. Of course you can have both open immigration and a welfare state. What he really meant was: “Open borders with a welfare state might mean higher taxes. To avoid paying those higher taxes, I’m willing to abandon my libertarian principles and join up with the statists by embracing immigration socialism. If the welfare state is ever dismantled, I’ll return to my libertarian principles on immigration but if it’s not, I’ll stick with the statists and their system of immigration socialism.” We all know that conservatives abandoned their free-market and limited-government principles a long time ago. Ever since the New Deal and the Cold War, conservatives have understood that adhering to principles of free ...

Anti-war Is Pro-American

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Thomas Jefferson declared the American way of interacting with the world to be "peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations – entangling alliances with none." However, over the course of at least the past seven decades, the US government has turned this admonition on its head. Peace? The US government has waged wars of choice almost constantly since the end of World War II. It has distributed death and destruction around the world for nearly 70 years straight in overt wars, covert wars, coup d’états, assassinations, cold wars, drone wars, etc. Commerce? Through sanctions and embargoes, the US government has carried out economic warfare against entire countries due to political disagreements with their leaders. This has resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocents who were denied the opportunity to buy goods and services from the US and the rest of the world. It has also prohibited the ability of Americans to travel and trade freely. Honest friendship? The ...

Trump and the Abandonment of Principle

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For decades, Republicans and conservatives have poked fun at libertarians for being a “marginal” movement, one outside the mainstream of American political thought and political power. Their message has been that libertarians should do as they did — become respectable and credible to mainstream America by making peace with the welfare-warfare state and devoting their lives to coming up with proposals on how to reform it. Through it all, Republicans and conservatives have maintained their old, traditional mantra: “free enterprise, private property, and limited government.” They include it in their speeches. It’s on their stationery, websites, and social media. But the mantra has always been a lie, and deep down Republicans and conservatives  have known it. It is impossible to reconcile a devotion to such socialist and interventionist programs as Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, farm subsidies, education grants, foreign aid, FDIC, public schooling, the Federal Reserve, fiat money, economic regulations, the DEA, drug laws, the SEC, public housing, income taxation and ...