Politics
The Problem with Safety Nets
One of my biggest issues with federal spending on so-called “safety net” programs is that more often than not, the safety net becomes a security blanket.
Scare Us, then Lead Us to Safety
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
— H. L. Mencken
Profit Is NOT Evil
Profit potential incentivizes innovation. Restrict profit, or demonize it, and you inhibit progress.
It’s War
On the battlefield of ideas, Barack Obama has lost. Not because his ideas don’t resonate with some people — they do — but because his ambition and overconfidence stirred the sleeping hornets.
If you want to win a war, you must do one of two things:
1. Fight swiftly and efficiently and win before your opponent can [...]
Liberty Trumps Prosperity
Liberty trumps Prosperity. Luckily for us, Liberty also leads to Prosperity.
Greedy Public Servants
I find it a bit strange that, in order to convince politicians in Washington D.C. to lower taxes, we have to assure them that doing so will increase net Federal tax revenue.
For once, I would like for someone to stand up and say, “I want to drastically lower income taxes. It will result in a [...]
The Rights and Responsibilities of the Federal Government
No right or responsibility of the Federal Government should be assumed. If it exists, it will be explicitly granted in the Constitution. Any man who believes otherwise either does not know his history, or deceptively rewrites it.
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to [...]
On Healthcare
I’m generally not one to attempt to comment specifically about current events, but I feel dragged into this by the bombardment of chatter on the issue, from every direction.
While it’s absolutely true that a single-payer healthcare system in America would prove disastrous (while certainly being praised in its failure from everyone in favor of it), [...]
Small Government, Big Moral Police?
No true “small-government conservative” can oppose same-sex marriage in policy. For if a government can dictate who can and cannot wed, then it can no longer be considered small.
On the Tyranny of Many
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good [...]