When Barbary Pirates demand a fee for allowing you to do business, it's called 'tribute money'. When the Mafia demands a fee for allowing you to do business, it's called 'the protection racket'. When the State demands a fee for allowing you to do business, it's called 'sales tax'.
– Jeff Daiell
HORNBERGER'S BLOG
March 9, 2020 Get Rid of the Safety Net
Central to the idea of a welfare state is the notion of the “safety net.” The idea is that a free society is much like walking the high wire. Highwire walkers sometimes fall, hit the ground, and die. But not if they have safety net. If they fall, they fall into the safety net and live another day. The free society, it is said, operates ...
What All the Democratic Presidential Candidates Have in Common
by Laurence M. Vance
And then there were three. The Democratic National Convention will be held July 13-16 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. A record twenty-nine Democrats formally announced that they ...
Liberalism Should Reject Welfare Statism
by Richard M. Ebeling
Dislike for the personality and disagreement with the policies of Donald Trump have helped to revive a seemingly dead idea: socialism. This has placed ...
The Evils of the Drug War
by Jacob G. Hornberger and Richard M. Ebeling
Have you ever wondered why there are still so many drug cartels and drug ...
So Much for Living the American Dream
by John W. Whitehead
Let’s talk numbers, shall we? The national debt (the amount the federal government has borrowed over the years...
Are Uber Drivers Underpaid?
by Laurence M. Vance
After its initial public offering (IPO) in May 2019, Uber’s shares closed their first day of trading at $41.57 — 7.6 percent below the ...
