Abolish the agency, ASAP: The latest installment of frightfully unacceptable government behavior involves a law created in 2000—the Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000—granting the IRS the power to seize the bank accounts of those suspected to be terrorists, drug dealers or engaged in other criminal activity, even when no charges have been filed…
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Are you sick of hamfisted Matt Walsh yet? I am too, but some paragraphs from his recent rant “Attention gay rights lobby your feelings aren’t constitutionally protected” are money: In fact, this is very much a part of the problem — this idea that you must be afraid of someone, or hate them, just because…
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I forgot. Campbell’s Law is as follows: “The more any quantitative social indicator (or even some qualitative indicator) is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor.” Read the Wikipedia entry…
DetailsWelfare increases are very predictable under public choice economics. Those who run these programs would never wish to work their jobs into oblivion, but they would of course work to increase their budget and power. The end result is predictably more welfare…
Notable articles and snippets from last week abound… But who will build the roads? The free market, as it has for a very long time. Scientists have finally decoded the physics behind earphone and other ropy tangles. Absolute truth in reality versus relative experience as reality – Einstein meets Tagore. Firefighters don’t actually fight fires…
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As the military industrial complex churns on and on without a major international engagement to supply, the question of demand inevitably arises. Keynesian spending can only help the economy if there are buyers for the new goods no one asked for. The solution for the military industrial complex became law enforcement. Since the war on…
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