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** THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2020
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If you make the law the palladium of the freedom and the property rights of all citizens, and if it is nothing but the organization of their individual rights to legitimate self-defense, you will establish on a just foundation a rational, simple, economical government, understood by all, loved by all, useful to all, supported by all, entrusted with a perfectly definite and very limited responsibility, and endowed with unshakeable solidity.
– Frédéric Bastiat, “Plunder and Law ([link removed]) ” [1850]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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February 13, 2020
Socialism in America, 31 Years Ago ([link removed])
In my article “A Life of the Lie on Socialism,” I pointed out that one of the big challenges we libertarians face is the fact that so many Americans are still suffering from the indoctrination that has led them to falsely believe that the welfare-warfare state serfdom under which we live is “freedom” and “free enterprise.” I cited an op-ed in the New York ...
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