“It sounds so virtuous to insist that “healthcare is a right.” Thus, if you do not believe medical care should be free, you are not a moral person. This technique echoes Aldous Huxley’s view that “the propagandist’s purpose is to …
Category: Dependency
Bastiat on the Nature of Government (and Why America’s Was the Exception) – Foundation for Economic Education
“I should be glad…if you had really discovered a beneficent and inexhaustible being, calling itself the Government…which can provide for all our wants…correct all our errors, repair all our faults, and exempt us henceforth from the necessity for foresight, prudence, …
Bad Ideas Are Spreading Like the Plague – Reason.com
At the very moment we succeeded in banishing a deadly affliction from our country, in other words, people began eschewing the measures that made this medical miracle possible. Socialism, too, is having an American renaissance. As with measles, if it’s …
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Musings and Mentions
As we continue to examine the outcomes of socioeconomic initiatives throughout our history, it becomes apparent that society’s benefits are not necessarily derived from good policies as much as from the absence of bad ones. – Robert Nelson
The Dreyfuss Civics Initiative – Promoting the Education of American Civics
Civics is important because… “students need to know how to run the country before they run the country” – Richard Dreyfuss https://thedreyfussinitiative.org/
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America Doesn’t Need Pete Buttigieg’s Forced Labor Scheme – Reason.com
“What is freedom? It is the right to choose one’s own employment. Certainly it means that, if it means anything,” Douglass thundered in response to Union General Nathaniel P. Banks’s policy as military commander of Louisiana of extracting one year …
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Frédéric Bastiat on the Connection between Socialism, Communism, and Protectionism – Foundation for Economic Education
“…As for systems based on legalized plunder, Bastiat says: As long as it is admitted that the law may be diverted from its true purpose—that it may violate property instead of protecting it—then everyone will want to participate in making …
Hoaxes, Scams, and Your Medical Care – AAPS | Association of American Physicians and Surgeons
“…we continue to have a slew of healthcare hoaxes: corporate stakeholders, legislators, and government agencies promise everything and have no accountability for their failure to keep their promises. Take the large health systems’ claim that hospital consolidation and buying up …
