Tag Archives: socialism

Free-Market Education

By Joseph | December 25, 2008

Mises.org has posted an excellent article on free-market education to their site.  I recommend that you go read it for yourself, but will give a short synopsis here.  A teacher in a San Diego high school decides to sell advertising on tests and quizzes to local area businesses and parents.  This helps the teacher to [...]

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The Austrians Were Right

By Joseph | November 22, 2008

Ron Paul before the U.S. House of Representatives, November 20, 2008
Madame Speaker, many Americans are hoping the new administration will solve the economic problems we face. That’s not likely to happen, because the economic advisors to the new President have no more understanding of how to get us out of this mess than previous [...]

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Puppets of Bad Ideas

By Joseph | November 14, 2008

The book Pillars of Prosperity is a collection of speeches and essays by Ron Paul that lay out his “views of the proper role of government, namely that it should serve only to protect the life and property of its citizens.”  In a 1984 speech (page 3) he shows the folly of big government and [...]

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Governments and Morality

By Joseph | November 10, 2008

It is commonly accepted that there are standards of right and wrong in the world. The Declaration of Independence refers to them as the “Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God.” To obey these laws is right and to disobey them is wrong. These standards apply to every individual of every nation. [...]

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Holding Failures Accountable

By Joseph | October 24, 2008

Joe Biden wants to take the pensions of failed corporate executives.  The idea is that since their companies failed they should be held accountable by government because we don’t believe in a free market (probably because we’ve never seen one).  This supposed desire for accountability (or votes) may sound great, but let’s get serious about [...]

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Socializing Your Retirement More

By Joseph | October 24, 2008

Democrats in the house are now talking about socializing 401(k) plans.  The plan that is being put forward would stop tax breaks on your 401(k) and would begin “redirecting those tax breaks to a new system of guaranteed retirement accounts to which all workers would be obliged to contribute.” I assume these guaranteed retirement [...]

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Bush to the Left of Hugo Chavez?

By Joseph | October 17, 2008

Reuters reports that Hugo Chavez, the socialist president of Venezuela, says that “Bush is to the left of me now.”  He gives the reason when he points out that President Bush, “announced he will buy shares in private banks.”  Hugo Chavez has been criticized for nationalizing his oil industry and other sectors of the [...]

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I Can’t Agree With Socialism

By Joseph | October 16, 2008

Ron Paul was on Fox Business on Tuesday after the President explained how the bailout of banks would be done.

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