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** THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 2021
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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money, by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.
– Alan Greenspan, "Gold and Economic Freedom ([link removed]) " [1966]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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January 21, 2021
Woe to the Libertarian Non-Unifiers ([link removed])
The mainstream press is aglow with expressions of hope and optimism that newly inaugurated President Joe Biden will lead America out of the deep morass in which the nation finds itself. If only Donald Trump had not been elected, the argument goes, Hillary Clinton and the Democrats would have led America to the promised land by now. But now that Joe Biden, ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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MONETARY POLICY
The Gold Clause: A Free-Market Gold Standard ([link removed])
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The Future of Freedom Foundation
The Case for Decentralizing Monetary Policy ([link removed])
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AIER
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Fighting Treason ([link removed])
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About Suffering: A Massacre of the Innocents in Yemen ([link removed])
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Common Dreams
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Free Speech Is on Shaky Ground ([link removed])
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Washington Post
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Bloomberg
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