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May 02, 2011 Libertarian
Commentary on The News
By Nathan A. Barton © 2011 Europe’s fall - Theft by government
Is
There Hope for Liberty in Our Lifetime? Spain: Amnesty for Moonlighting (La Vanguardia (Spain)) Spanish government is preparing to give businesses “a two-month amnesty to disclose untaxed labour,” leads La Vanguardia. A decree-law, which should be approved on April 29 by the Council of Ministers, “will exempt from sanctions contractors who voluntarily register black-market jobs before June 30,” the daily explains. The government hopes in this way to fight the underground economy and “to mitigate the negative effect” on future unemployment figures, which are approaching five million (or 21 percent of the workforce, the newspaper also stresses). This is an “amnesty”, notes La Vanguardia, as under it companies will simply have to pay social security contributions backdated to 1 January 2011 and to draw up regular worker contracts. Notice, it is NOT about whether people have work to earn money to make a living, it is about their statistics and the taxes. The bureaucrat’s warped sense of reality is so obvious. [The rest of the commentary will be posted as soon as possible! ML] (Read the rest here) by Jacob H. Huebert What will work? People who want instant gratification will be disappointed, but my answer is the same answer that Albert Jay Nock gave in his classic essay "Isaiah's Job" and the same answer that Leonard Read gave in his classic essay "How to Advance Liberty" (also a video lecture). What we can do to advance liberty is to work first and
foremost on the one unit of society we're actually capable of
improving: ourselves. Each of us can learn more about liberty, learn
more about history, learn more about Austrian economics. We can learn
to improve ourselves in every respect, especially in our speaking and
writing skills so we can then pass the things that we learn on to
others. Every year, more prisons are built, more money is funneled to police departments, more criminal law is written and yet domestic crime remains a major problem. Explanations abound as to why this is. The Left blames the economic system for fostering inequality, which supposedly causes crime. The Right says the police have their hands tied by political correctness. Libertarians typically argue that the government wastes precious time and resources on victimless crime and has insufficient tools remaining to deal with the genuine predators. There is a more fundamental explanation, however, which makes logic out of the entire mess but is almost never voiced: Socialism. Law enforcement agencies, courts, prisons, legislative bodies -- all of the key institutions that are supposed to produce justice are owned and maintained by the state. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return.) Imagine if instead of having the choice to go to whatever grocery store your heart desires, whether it be Costco, BJ's, A&P, Kroger, Whole Foods, Safeway, Wegmans, SuperValu, Target or Walmart, you could only go to one market. Not only would you be limited to which market you could go to, but you could only get a certain number/quantity/variety of groceries each week; no spoiling yourself on a bag of Double-Stuff Oreos or a quart of Haagen-Dazs. Does this seem like some sort of dystopian nightmare of epic proportions, of a totalitarian government concerned not with the inalienable rights and welfare of its citizens, but with maintaining power and control over them? Sadly, this is not science fiction. In fact, this is almost exactly how our government-run education system works. Never thought of it that way, did you? (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return.) Privatization
boosts free market
By Kent McManigal It is strange to see how many people object to
the idea of ending the government monopoly for any service or product
that is even marginally now provided by government.
Some people seem to really believe things can be best done by government, using coercive wealth confiscation known euphemistically as taxation and by not allowing anyone to opt out and choose a free market alternative. That is an odd belief that goes against years of observations and experience. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return.) National Gun Rights Examiner Here’s the thing—if we can’t trust the guy with a
gun, what in the world are we doing letting him fly around at large
using super strength, heat vision, and all those other devastating
powers at his disposal…? Libertarian
News Examiner
Left and right, string and kite By Garry Reed Without the string the kite is just sticks and
paper tossed by the wind until it crashes somewhere and is forgotten.
Without the kite the string just lies in the dirt with no purpose, no mission, no vision to show the world. (Read the rest here) (Use the back button to return) Features From The Last Issue Libertarian Commentary on The News By Nathan A. Barton © 2010 External Articles by Benjamin Marks National Gun Rights Examiner Heicklen: judges are scamming jury rights activists By Garry Reed Click Here for the Archives PLEASE let me know
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