Santa Barbara City Councilman Jesse Dominguez has officially apologized for saying what any sentient observer knew about collectivists for years: he believes that the state has to control every aspect of your life.
The apology came after Dominquez offered an arrogant remark supporting Santa Barbara’s July 17th law to ban plastic straws, including the compostable kind, in eateries and bars…
In his landmark 1994 book, “Separating School and State” economist, philosopher, and historian Sheldon Richman argued that public, tax-funded schools not only resulted in inferior educational output compared to private schools, they were prime examples of how government, by forcing everyone to pay, pits people against each other in constant battles over how the money will be spent.
Today, the…
Want a great example of why it’s probably a good idea to separate school and state? Head to the University of Toronto, where an Associate Professor claims with about as much multisyllabic pseudo-intellectualism as possible that felt – yes, the fuzzy cloth, felt – helps break the cis-heteronormative, “White” (which, evidently, must be capitalized) colonialist supremacy.
An associate professor in…
Rarely, and only through great expense, can a target of government tax thievery effect change on a political level.
After all, governments need your money to exist. And they claim the statutory power to take it. So it’s interesting to see how, right now, some money-hungry states and some money-hungry cities within them are battling over what kinds of tax cash the cities will take. Specifically,…
For some strange reason, those of us who teach economics (and I do) find that we repeatedly have to explain to leftists one of the fundamental differences between markets and the state.
That difference is choice.
If you don’t buy a burger from McDonald’s, they don’t arrest you. If you don’t want to pay the government for its “services,” you’ll eventually spend time behind bars, or die…
The headline tells quite an absurd tale. But, oh, there is so much more…
As the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation recently reported, a 23 year-old Alberta man known only as “David” was buying insurance for a new Chevrolet Cruze, when he discovered that his annual rate would be $4,500 (Canadian). Inquiring as to whether his bill would be lower if he were a woman, he was told the price would…
Students of economics and US History learn that what are called tariffs are really taxes placed on imported goods. They’re used by politicians on behalf of themselves and special interests to syphon money off of market transactions and to help less competitive domestic sellers by increasing the prices of their competition. So when one hears that Cornell University is going to impose what one…
Compare the two modes of behavior. You are on your own property, offering conversation to friends, or offering voluntary, consensual trade of goods and services to friends and neighbors.
Alternatively, you are an unwelcomed trespasser onto another person’s property; you are there to order them to stop their voluntary, consensual and peaceful activity; you tell them they must pay a “fine” for…
Remember that clause in the “US constitutional rulebook” stipulating that residents from one state should be forced to subsidize bailouts, pork, and welfare schemes in others? How about the one mandating that the tax code should be used as a tool of behavioral control? They’re right in the text, beside the “Military Can Be Used Anytime Anywhere”, “Congress Can Control Education”, and the “…
It would be easy to pass this off as more short-sighted, politically correct thinking on the part of bureaucrats in the UK, but the issue goes much deeper, and has much darker implications about the UK and western populations that do not recognize the distinction between society and the state.
Steve Bird, of the Telegraph.UK, recently reported on the stunning, but not unexpected, story of a…
