Topic: Government

Building Up the State Means Pulling People Down

– April 26, 2021

“Mariana Mazzucato and Joe Biden are on ‘missions’ with ‘big plans.’ But their political missions and their big economic central plans require all of us to give up our own individual and personal plans to be straightjacketed into their compulsory designs for us. We need to remember Adam Smith’s words in The Wealth of Nations, ‘The statesman, who should attempt to direct private people . . . would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had the folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.'” ~ Richard M. Ebeling

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Government ‘Discrimination’ and the Age Profile of Covid-19 Fatalities

– April 26, 2021

“It is, I believe, deeply misguided to insist that the principle of government even-handedness requires that government ignore the age profile of a disease’s victims. It is misguided to demand – either on grounds of equity or by noting, correctly, that all lives are sacred – that the policy response to a disease that overwhelmingly kills old people must be just as vigorous and intense as would be the policy response to a disease that kills indiscriminately, or that kills overwhelmingly the young.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

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The Department of Education Does Not Deserve A Raise

– April 26, 2021

“Simply tossing more money into the public education bureaucracy will not make things better. In fact it will be rewarding the very people who have orchestrated the mess that we are in today. After everything that has been done to American students, there should be a bipartisan consensus that without bold structural reform every new tax dollar given to the American public education system is a drastic moral failure.” ~ Ethan Yang

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Restitution for Systemic Covidism

– April 26, 2021

“These leaders are actually the ones who need to go, before their failed policies become so palpably criminal that Americans decide to strip them of their property, freedom, and perhaps, in a country increasingly devoid of effective police or rule of law, their very lives, in the name of restitution for systemic covidism and other abuses of power and reason.” ~ Robert E. Wright

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14 Months Later: A Pathway Forward

– April 23, 2021

“We call on the medical experts who inform governments to likely for the first time, use some common sense and logic and some critical thinking; if it is all about the science, we implore the medical decision-makers to follow the data and science and to use it and use critical analysis of the data; we argue they have not; these decision-makers must understand the impact of their policies and stopping Covid ‘at all costs’ is not a policy and not attainable.” ~ AIER Contributing Authors

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The Failure of Imperial College Modeling Is Far Worse than We Knew

– April 22, 2021

“Just over one year ago, the epidemiology modeling of Neil Ferguson and Imperial College played a preeminent role in shutting down most of the world. The exaggerated forecasts of this modeling team are now impossible to downplay or deny, and extend to almost every country on earth. Indeed, they may well constitute one of the greatest scientific failures in modern human history.” ~ Phillip W. Magness

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Steel Follies and the Perils of Politically-Controlled Trade

– April 22, 2021

“American citizens and manufacturers should be allowed to buy every commodity they choose as cheaply as the world can produce it. The time has come to end the medieval pursuit of a “just price” for imports and to cease permitting politicians and bureaucrats to have economic life-and-death power over American businesses.” ~ James Bovard

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Masters of Puppets and Men of System: Review of Mario Rizzo and Glen Whitman, Escaping Paternalism

– April 21, 2021

“The men and women of the new paternalist system would do well to step away from the chess-board and to consider that ‘in the great chess-board of human society, every single piece has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislature might chuse to impress upon it.’ In Escaping Paternalism, Rizzo and Whitman explain why.” ~ Art Carden

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Taiwan: The New Geopolitical and Economic Flash Point

– April 21, 2021

“The stakes could not be higher, as one false move could spark a devastating armed conflict between global superpowers. Failure to act sufficiently will jeopardize the future of freedom and prosperity not just in Asia but around the world.” ~ Ethan Yang

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The Extraordinary Naivete Of The Democrats’ Economic Planning

– April 20, 2021

“The Democrats and their media enablers plainly believe that wealth just happens, that it once again exists to be taken. What else could explain the childish economic narrative created by Biden’s aides, and reported in unquestioning fashion by rather gullible reporters?” ~ John Tamny

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The Ukraine Famine of 1933 was a Government-Made Disaster

– April 20, 2021

“This work of economic history is not just worth reading because of its well-executed nature. It is worth reading because it is a potent reminder of how governments can fuel some of the worst disasters in human history.” ~ Vincent Geloso

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How Government Subsidizes Obesity

– April 20, 2021

“Change begins with the willingness of individuals and families to overcome ignorance of what weakens the immunological cockpit of the human body. We can learn from those that didn’t come back from Covid. We can strengthen our immunological system by rejecting a diet of subsidized, heavily processed calories.” ~ Barry Brownstein

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