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Trump’s Brilliant Use of the Coin of the Realm

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In every welfare-warfare state, the people in charge are committed to maintaining their power and control over the lives, income, assets, and liberties of the citizenry. Yet, those in power know that it is not in the interests of people to have a large portion of their income and assets seized by the government. They also know that generally people would rather be free than unfree. Under dictatorial regimes, that doesn’t present a big problem. Those in power simply seize whatever they want. If anyone objects, they jail, torture, or execute him. The U.S. government’s close allies Saudi Arabia and Egypt are a good examples of this phenomenon. So are Cuba and North Korea. Under democratic welfare-warfare states, the challenge is a bit dicier. If a democratic regime goes out and arbitrarily starts seizing people’s income and assets and infringes on their liberty and privacy, that regime runs the risk of being ...

Nonintervention: America’s Founding Foreign Policy

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On the Fourth of July, 1821, John Quincy Adams delivered one of the most remarkable speeches in U.S. history. Having gone down in history with the title “In Search of Monsters of Destroy,” Adams’s speech summarized the founding foreign policy of the United States. Adams pointed out that there are lots of bad things that happen around the world. Brutal dictatorships. Tyranny. Civil wars. Revolutions. Wars between nations. Poverty. Famines. Notwithstanding the death and destruction such “monsters” produced in foreign countries, however, the U.S. government would not go abroad to slay them. That was the founding foreign policy of the United States, a policy of nonintervention. That’s not to say that the United States was unwilling to offer any assistance to people who were suffering in foreign lands. Private Americans were free to offer their support, either personally or with financial donations. Equally important, the United States had a founding immigration policy of open borders, which meant that anyone who was willing ...

Adhering to Principle to Achieve Liberty, Part 2

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Part 1 | Part 2 In 1990, the first year of The Future of Freedom Foundation’s existence, I wrote an article entitled “Letting Go of Socialism” (www.fff.org/explore-freedom/article/letting-socialism) in which I criticized the idea of school vouchers. I pointed out that vouchers were simply another socialist program in which government forcibly takes money from one group of people and gives it to another group of people, in order to the  fund their children’s education in private schools. Milton Friedman read my article and addressed it in a speech entitled “Say No to Intolerance,” which was later reprinted in Liberty magazine. It can be read here: www.hoover.org/research/friedman-freedom. In his speech, Friedman criticized the principled, uncompromising approach to liberty taken by people such as Ludwig von Mises, Ayn Rand, … and me! Needless to say, given that Mises and Rand are intellectual heroes of mine and have played a big role in my development as a libertarian, it was quite an honor to be ...