Angry about Unspent K-12 Education Funds? Support ESAs.
“If you’re angry about these ludicrous spending bills, the time to demand another option is now, and it all starts with schools. We’re in a mess, but ESAs could help guide us out.” ~ Garion Frankel
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The Tragedy of 9/11 and the Afghan Debacle
“Be prepared. Liberty will remain something to discount and whittle away in the name of ‘keeping America safe.’ And the high financial cost of playing global policeman will not diminish any time in the foreseeable future.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling
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And Secure the Blessings of Liberty
“The government should protect Americans’ lives, liberty and property from foes foreign and domestic, and no more.” ~ Robert E. Wright
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Constituting Constitutional Economics
“As Smith himself put it: ‘Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice.'” ~ Alexander William Salter
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Spendthrift Uncle Sam No Longer Can Afford to Run the World
“Washington should stop trying to run the world and concentrate on defending Americans. The U.S. would be safer- and save money in the process.” ~ Doug Bandow
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Hating Landlords Misplaces the Blame
“In greedy-bastard economics, rather than tracing their understanding of something they dislike back to its ultimate source, people only trace it back until they get to someone they can demonize as a greedy bastard.” ~ Gary M. Galles
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Test of Time: The Most Important Failure of US Covid Response
“It is becoming clear that the U.S. failure to yoke up with the private sector is the most important, but least-commented on, failure of Covid response overall.” ~ Michael Munger
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Uncle Sam’s Hamartia = Your Early Death
“Public health bureaucrats simply have no incentive to keep Americans healthy. Their budgets are misallocated and will continue to be so until their incentives are better aligned with those of American citizens.” ~ Robert E. Wright
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Red Light Robberies Across America
“‘Taxation by citation’ is a license for bureaucratic tyranny. How much longer will local politicians be permitted to plunder drivers and subvert safety with impunity?” ~ James Bovard
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Identity Politics and Systemic Racism Theory as the New Marxo-Nazism
“The new Marxo-Nazism of identity politics and systemic racism theory would turn back the clock and return us to a time and type of society that America and Americans have worked so hard to place in the past of human history.” ~ Richard M. Ebeling
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Military Equipment and the Labor Theory of Value
“Ludwig von Mises once joked that only the government could take a useful commodity like paper, slap some ink on it, and make it worthless. We appear to have a similar problem with military equipment.” ~ Clifford F. Theis
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How the Fed Can Improve Financial Stability and Reduce Inequality
“There is clear evidence that bank deregulation can improve financial stability while also shrinking inequality. By lowering the costs of doing business, strong but simple regulations improve job opportunities for low-skilled and minority workers.” ~ Thomas L. Hogan & Amelia Janaskie
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