Taxation and Forced Labor
Not only is taxation theft, but by taking away part of the money you earn, the government is forcing you to work for it.
Recent Podcast Episodes
Lockdowns Haven’t Brought down Covid Mortality. But They Have Killed Millions of Jobs.
Strict lockdowns have devastated millions of families' incomes while failing to bring success in suppressing covid mortality.
Why Marx Never Figured Out How to Distribute Goods in a Socialist Society
Contra Marx, Mises understood that human desires and needs are not determined merely by biology.
Jeff Deist on Election Fraud and Shutdown Lunacy
Jeff Deist returns to the show to comment on allegations of voter fraud; the future of politics in a post-Trump America; the death of the old GOP; the push for a “great reset;” the crippling of the economy via shutdown and bailouts; and more.
What Chile’s Vote to Change Its Constitution Means for Its Future
In recent decades, Chile set itself apart from the rest of Latin America with successful market reforms and a stable political system. Average Chileans prospered. But now that's all at risk.
Dan McCarthy Trusts the People More Than the Elites
Dan McCarthy, Editor at Large of The American Conservative, joins Bob to discuss his view that conservatives and libertarians should stop heaping contempt on democracy. McCarthy argues that the elites are the real threat to liberty, not the masses.
Why GOP Loyalists and Candidates Keep Moving Left
Unless the Left's opponents focus on changing voters' ideological drift to the left, candidates who want to actually win elections will have to keep moving left also.
The Rise of Mega–Gambling Facilities: A New Skyscraper Curse?
Circa casino’s new three-story, 78 million–pixel, high-definition screen in its sportsbook gambling compound may represent a new frontier in mega–building trends similar to those of skyscrapers.
The Myth of America as a “Reluctant Superpower”
In this outstanding study, Stephen Wertheim shows that both views that dominate American foreign policy are wrong. In doing so, he vindicates for our time the merits of a noninterventionist foreign policy.
The Absurdity of Lockdown 2.0
As Ludwig von Mises said, “whoever wants peace among nations must seek to limit the state and its influence most strictly.” This is applicable to peace within nations, too.
Per Bylund on The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unrealized
Dr. Bylund and Jeff Deist discuss Covid and government responses against the backdrop of ripple effects, Say's law, "market failure," and the inability of bureaucrats to make rational tradeoffs.
The Future of Trump’s Populism
The GOP is at its worst when it's run by the old Bush-Romney-Cheney faction that was in power before Trump. Will "Trumpism" endure, or will the party go back to its old warmongering, pro-establishment ways?
Why Governments Hate Decentralization and “Local Control”
Decentralized societies that value local customs, institutions, and governments are obstacles to the expansion of the regime's power. Not surprisingly, central governments do all they can to destroy this.
Privacy, Power, Fiscal Policy, the Poor: Four Reasons to Worry about CBDCs
Central bank digital currencies need to be centralized and manipulable to some extent in order to use them to implement monetary policy, which is central bankers' goal. This characteristic makes them a very risky proposition.
China’s New Five-Year Plan Exposes the Wishful Thinking behind Socialist Regimes
The trouble with China’s new five-year plan is that it attempts to solve problems while leaving their underlying structural causes unaddressed. In this it is not unlike the final Soviet five-year plans of the 1980s.
Why Commies Hate Your Thanksgiving Dinner
In 1923, Lenin released a propaganda pamphlet titled Down with the Private Kitchen. It explained how private dinners with one's family are reactionary, bourgeois, and generally something requiring total destruction.
Modern Monetary Collectivism
No, “societal” value is not what you want or think is good, and “we” are not a homogenous entity of observable, aggregated preferences.
The Right to Own a Gun Isn’t Just for Americans
Private firearms ownership decentralizes coercive power, transferring some of it from the state to the private individual. Naturally, political regimes oppose this. But even many non-Americans embrace private arms.
Covid Is Just the Latest Excuse for Canada’s Politicians to Violate the Constitution
If the word “free” is to have any meaning, it should mean something more than whatever freedom remains after the government has finished restricting it.
Another Pointless Antitrust Campaign by Federal Regulators
The feds claim the chicken industry is trying to exploit the consumer. Yet several decades ago, chicken was more expensive than beef, but thanks to industry efforts, chicken is exceptionally affordable now.
