The Tyranny of Government Courts and Prisons
Compulsory labor permeates our legal and judicial structure: we are forced to play along with all they demand.
Compulsory labor permeates our legal and judicial structure: we are forced to play along with all they demand.
These programs have caused a massive diversion of savings into government consumption, not only by diverting taxes into current government spending, but also by undermining one of the most important motivations for private saving and investment.
Social Security only persists because we have been conditioned to approach public-sector performance with lower expectations.
The United States has the highest incarceration rate of any country in the world, with 1 in 100 people behind bars. The prison population in America equals that of the cities of Los Angeles and Miami combined. This is an egregious form of statism. It's time we stop ignoring this issue.
The illusion of wartime prosperity is rooted in how national income was calculated and in how the statistics were compiled.
Five months into the second round of quantitative easing — "QE2" — it is useful to take stock of what it has, and has not, accomplished. QE2 has begun to deliver on all the dangers of which the critics warned, but not the alleged benefits.
The foremost aim of despotic government is to prevent any innovations that could endanger its own supremacy.