Statist Obtuseness at the Atlantic by Jacob G. Hornberger March 12, 2019 The Atlantic has just published an article by Rene Chun, a contributing editor at Wired magazine, that perfectly demonstrates political obtuseness. Entitled “Why Americans Don’t Cheat on Their Taxes,” the point of the article is to explain why Americans have a high compliance rate with respect to the payment of income taxes. Chun’s explanation? Patriotism and loyalty. That’s what ...
Should Libertarians Support a Police State? by Jacob G. Hornberger March 11, 2019 A system of immigration controls inevitably entails the destruction of a free society. That’s because of the enforcement measures that inevitably come with immigration controls, just as thunder inevitably comes with lightning. Immigration enforcement measures always and inevitably bring into existence an immigration police state, which, at the risk of belaboring the obvious, is the opposite of a free ...
How to End Poverty by Jacob G. Hornberger March 8, 2019 For socialists, the solution to poverty is easy. All that needs to be done is for government to take money from the rich and middle class through taxation and give it to the poor. Or have government force employers, through minimum-wage laws, to pay more money to their workers. Voilà! Poverty solved! Wasn’t that easy?
Idolizing Nazism by Jacob G. Hornberger March 7, 2019 A group of public high-school students in Newport Beach, California, has provoked a huge controversy for arranging red cups in the shape of a swastika and doing a Nazi salute at a drinking party. Even though the party was a private affair, school officials and even law-enforcement officers are investigating the matter, especially since the party apparently involved some ...
The Free Market: A Powerful Redistributor of Wealth by Jacob G. Hornberger March 6, 2019 Leftists are notorious for wanting to use the force of government to confiscate money from the rich in order to equalize wealth in society. They lament large “disparities of wealth” — e.g., the fact that there are billionaires and paupers living in the same society. Sometimes leftists call for giving the IRS-confiscated money to people who have less. Sometimes they ...
Honesty About Socialism by Jacob G. Hornberger March 5, 2019 Conservatives and some liberals/progressives indignantly exclaim: “I am a capitalist, not a socialist … except for my support of: Social Security; Medicare; Medicaid; Public (i.e., government) schooling; The Federal Reserve; Immigration controls; The national income tax; The military-industrial complex; The welfare state; Foreign aid; Farm subsidies; The government-managed economy; The Postal Service; Amtrak; Public works; The Interstate Highway System; ...
The Immorality and Destructiveness of Wealth Equalization by Jacob G. Hornberger March 4, 2019 One of the hallmarks of the leftist/progressive/liberal/socialist philosophy is wealth redistribution through the force of government. Leftists/progressives/liberals/socialists lament the enormous disparities of wealth and income that exist in American society. They believe, therefore, that a legitimate function of government is to take money from the rich and either keep it for governmental expenditures or give it to the poor ...
National-Security Statism and North Korea’s Nukes by Jacob G. Hornberger March 1, 2019 The Pentagon and the CIA and their policy of foreign interventionism are the root cause of the nuclear crisis with North Korea. Keep in mind that we are talking about one country, Korea, which was artificially divided into two halves, North Korea and South Korea. Therefore, the war that ultimately broke out between North Korea and ...
Trump’s Failure Versus North Korea by Jacob G. Hornberger February 28, 2019 Ever since President Trump incited his big crisis with North Korea, only to back off and ultimately fall in love with North Korea’s brutal communist dictator Kim Jung-Un, the entire exercise has had a weird, surreal quality to it. Trump began the crisis by claiming that North Korea’s mere possession of nuclear weapons posed a ...
Cold War Weirdness on Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela by Jacob G. Hornberger February 27, 2019 President Trump is currently having a second meeting with North Korea’s communist dictator Kim Jong-Un. Hoping to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace, Trump is hoping to enter into an agreement with the Korean Reds to finally bring a formal end to the Cold War-era Korean War. The meeting is being held in Hanoi, Vietnam, the ...
The Russian Mirror by Jacob G. Hornberger February 26, 2019 A recent article in the New York Times about Russia’s “intelligence state,” authored by John Sipher, a former chief of station for the CIA, provides a valuable mirror for the American people. The problem is that American statists cannot see it as a mirror. While Sipher’s article clearly demonstrates that American statists, especially conservative ones, can see the ...
Trump’s Disrespect for Maduro’s Wall by Jacob G. Hornberger February 25, 2019 How ironic. President Trump wants to build his wall along the southern border of the United States to keep Latin Americans from illegally entering the United States. He already has constructed a tariff wall to keep foreigners from freely sending their goods into the United States. This past Saturday, we witnessed the spectacle of Trump doing his best to overcome ...
