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** THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2020
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If you want to abolish war, you must eliminate its causes. What is needed is to restrict government activities to the preservation of life, health, and private property, and thereby to safeguard the working of the market. Sovereignty must not be used for inflicting harm on anyone, whether citizen or foreigner.
– Ludwig von Mises, Omnipotent Government ([link removed]) [1944]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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February 6, 2020
Social Security Insults the Young ([link removed])
Contrary to popular opinion, especially among seniors, Social Security is not a retirement program. There is no fund into which people have been contributing their money. Instead, from the very beginning Social Security has been nothing more than a welfare program, one in which the federal government taxes younger people and gives the money to seniors. The question, of course, is: Why? Why do we ...
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