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To Deal with the Problem of Incompetent Government, David Brooks Wants...
Phineas Fahrquar:Patient says to his doctor, “Doc, it hurts when I do this!” Doc replies, ” Well, stop doing that!” Brooks obviously didn’t listen to the doctor. Originally posted on International...
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Instead of a Government-Guaranteed Income, How About a Practical Plan to End...
Phineas Fahrquar:Hmmm… Block-granting the entire welfare state to the states to allocate as they need, then gradually eliminating it — a federalist approach. I like it. Originally posted on...
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Have a Happy New Year: privatize @USPS
Poor, trusting fool This is a bit of a personal rant to end the year on, but a recent experience with the US Post Office and trying to get a package delivered has lead to the conclusion that one of the...
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Introducing the 2013 Federal Register: Last year’s 80,000 pages worth of...
Only 80,000 pages. The government must be slacking…Filed under: Leviathan, Limited Government, Reblogs, Statism
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On birthday parties, income inequality, and big government
“By invitation, only.” So, in all the excitement of the NFL’s “championship weekend” the featured the 49ers thrilling come-from-ahead loss in Seattle (1), I forgot it was Michelle Obama’s 50th...
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Time for a Free-Market Postal System
Phineas Fahrquar:Revisiting one of my pet peeves: privatizing our hugely inefficient and money-losing postal service. In this case, Mitchell presents Britain’s success at doing just that. Originally...
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North Korea: all men must now wear Kim Jong Un’s hairstyle?
Bah! You call that a “haircut?” When you’re the boy god-king of the world’s largest prison camp masquerading as a nation, you can get away with weird, petty stuff like this: If you are a man in North...
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North Korea: the nightmare of living under a god
There’s an interesting and frightening interview posted to Business Insider today with Yeonmi Park, a woman who escaped from North Korea with her family as a teenager, but needed years to get over the...
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Repeal the Gas Tax…and Get Rid of the Department of Transportation
Phineas Fahrquar:It’s a good start. The way to end cronyist corruption in DC is to take the money away. Originally posted on International Liberty: More than three years ago, I wrote that the...
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The IRS wants to tax your frequent flyer miles and hotel points
It’s as if the agency was worried it wasn’t hated enough. Writing at Reason, Ira Stoll reports that the Internal Revenue Service is looking at taxing rewards points offered by airlines and hotel...
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Prediction: Gridlock for the Next Two Years, but that’s Better than the...
Phineas Fahrquar:If Congress and the administration can’t agree to do anything good, then doing nothing is the next best solution. Or, as Reagan (I think) once said, “Don’t just do something, stand...
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Welcome to tax season, now prepare to give your #Obamacare subsidy back
“Obamacare has arrived” This item has been sitting in my files for a while (1), but, since we’re deep into tax season, it’s still relevant — especially so for people relying on that federal subsidy to...
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In the Left’s Orwellian World, Taxpayers Who Get to Keep their Income Are...
Phineas Fahrquar:The difference between a conservative and a progressive: the conservative believes the money you earn is yours, and the government should take only the minimum it needs to perform...
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(Video) In praise of Calvin Coolidge, the “Great Refrainer”
Via Prager University, recent years have given me a far greater appreciation of the virtues of our 30th president: The lecturer, Amity Shlaes, has not only written a well-received biography of...
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Small Government Is Efficient, and Decentralized Government Is even Better
Phineas Fahrquar:One reason I grew to be a limited government conservative is that the empirical evidence shows that it delivers better results, as in the linked article below: Originally posted on...
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(Video) Why we’re losing liberty
Via Prager University, Princeton University Professor of Jurisprudence Robert George looks at several reasons for the decline of liberty in America — from the growth of the national government...
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Poverty, the Welfare State, and the Failure of Centralized Government
Phineas Fahrquar:Centralize everything in DC’s hands, if you want to achieve perfect mediocrity. Originally posted on International Liberty: As we get deeper into an election season, many politicians...
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The Value-Added Tax: A Nixonian Scheme to Fund Bigger Government
The VAT is to me an obviously bad idea, especially as long as there is also an income tax. But why Senators Cruz and Paul would support one is way beyond me. International Liberty In early 2013, a...
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Supreme Court puts Obama’s “climate saving” power plant regulations on hold
This is great news on several fronts, but especially for supporters of limited government and regulatory restraint (such as me), who’ve often viewed the EPA as an arrogant, tyrannical, and arguably...
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“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom”
Still holds true after 85 years: Source: Someone on Twitter or Facebook, can’t recall whom. But it’s the thought that counts.Filed under: Economics, Free Markets, Liberty, Limited Government, Political...
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