Stealing from the Citizenry by John W. Whitehead March 21, 2017 “Civil forfeiture laws represent one of the most serious assaults on private property rights in the nation today. Under civil forfeiture, police and prosecutors can seize your car or other property, sell it and use the proceeds to fund agency budgets—all without so much as charging you with a crime. Unlike criminal forfeiture, where property is taken ...
Trump’s Budgetary Blueprint Retains America’s Welfare State by Richard M. Ebeling March 20, 2017 President Donald Trump has issued his preliminary federal budget proposal looking to the U.S. government’s next 2018 fiscal year. What it shows very clearly is that there will likely be no attempt to reduce the size and cost of most of the American interventionist-welfare state. On Thursday, March 16, 2017 the White House released, “America First: A Budget Blueprint to ...
Rule by Thieves by John W. Whitehead March 17, 2017 “The first and most important thing to understand about politics is this: forget Right, Left, Center, socialism, fascism, or democracy. Every government that exists — or ever existed, or ever will exist — is a kleptocracy, meaning ‘rule by thieves.’ Competing ideologies merely provide different excuses to separate the Productive Class from what they produce. If the taxpayer/voters won’t ...
Republicare by Laurence M. Vance March 16, 2017 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as the PPACA or Obamacare, was signed into law by Barack Obama on March 23, 2010, without a single Republican vote. It was fitting that Obamacare’s first requirement was a new tax, since the new law was in large part just a collection of tax increases masquerading as a health-care law. ...
The Libertarian Angle: The Debt Ceiling by Future of Freedom Foundation March 15, 2017 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss U.S. fiscal policy. Go to the podcast.
The National Debt Limit Equals a Balanced Budget by Richard M. Ebeling March 13, 2017 Once again the United States government is rapidly approaching a fiscal debt ceiling: After March 16, 2017, Uncle Sam will not be legally allowed to borrow any more money to cover its budget deficits, unless Congress votes to raise the debt limit, once again, like it has every time in the past. Uncle’s Sam’s debt has been growing at a ...
“End the War on Drugs” in Orlando by Future of Freedom Foundation March 13, 2017 In conjunction with the ACLU at Florida A&M University, the ACLU at Barry University, and the ACLU at the University of Central Florida, The Future of Freedom Foundation is pleased to present an evening program on the campus of Florida A&M University College of Law on Wednesday, March 22, 2017, that will ...
The Government Is Still the Enemy of Freedom by John W. Whitehead March 9, 2017 Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter. Sooner or later, the people in this country are gonna realize the government … doesn’t ...
The Libertarian Angle: Gun Rights and the Second Amendment by Future of Freedom Foundation March 7, 2017 FFF president Jacob Hornberger and Richard Ebeling discuss gun rights. Go to the podcast.
Socialism: Marking a Century of Death and Destruction by Richard M. Ebeling March 6, 2017 In August of 1993 I was in invited to participate in a conference in Vilnius, Lithuania on “Liberty and Private Business.” This was less than two years after the formal disappearance of the Soviet Union as a political entity on the map of the world. During our time there my wife and I were offered the opportunity to be given ...
Are We Being Set Up for a National ID System? by John W. Whitehead March 3, 2017 “The triumph of the S.S. demands that the tortured victim allow himself to be led to the noose without protesting, that he renounce and abandon himself to the point of ceasing to affirm his identity. And it is not for nothing. It is not gratuitously, out of sheer sadism, that the S.S. men desire his defeat. They know that ...
States’ Rights and the War on Drugs by Laurence M. Vance March 1, 2017 On February 22, a joint letter was issued by the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education rejecting the Obama administration’s position that federal nondiscrimination laws require public schools to allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice. In May of last year, the ...