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July 23, 2026
** THE FREEDOM SCALE
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** The Free Market in Trash Pickup
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I live in an exurban neighborhood in a small town in Western New York. It’s a nice area, right on the edge of sprawling farm country to the west. Moving here was a big change from sun-soaked Phoenix, and even more so from our place before that—in Los Angeles, right on the edge of sprawling gang territory to the north. And east … and west.
Big to small, urban to semi-rural, loud to quiet, sunny all year to cloudy and cold for more than half.
One of the smaller changes we encountered was private trash pickup. I just took for granted that garbage collection was just one of the many things that governments monopolized. The cities of Phoenix and LA certainly did.
We moved into our house, started getting utilities switched into our name, and, wait … we actually get to choose from among competing trash services? We can compare prices? Read reviews? Ask our new neighbors which they prefer? Amazing!
And we won’t get taxed an indeterminate and ever-increasing amount for unreliable monopoly trash service? Something for which we have no recourse, except to “vote the bums out” … in favor of new bums who won’t change a thing?
What sort of magical place had I moved to?
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SELF-GOVERNMENT
** 7-Minute Video: Why Government Power Must Be Limited
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No government is immune from human imperfection. That's why liberty flourishes when political power is restrained and people remain free to govern their own lives.
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ECONOMIC LIBERTY
** Why Private Investors Keep Avoiding California's High-Speed Rail
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Private investors risk their own money. This look at California's high-speed rail asks why nearly two decades later, taxpayers are still carrying almost all of the financial burden.
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