Commentaries – 1999 by Future of Freedom Foundation April 27, 2010 January 1999 A Better State of the Union Address by Jacob G. Hornberger Euro is a No-Go by Sheldon Richman Open Borders: A Gift from the Founders by Jacob G. Hornberger Rhinestone Benevolence by Sheldon Richman The Economic Ignorance of Our 'Leaders' by Sheldon Richman The Hot Air Emanates from Washington by Sheldon Richman The Mexican Heritage in the American Southwest by Jacob G. Hornberger back to top February 1999 A 10 Percent Tax Cut? Repeal the 16th Amendment Instead by Jacob G. Hornberger Brazil and the Crisis of Paternalism by Jacob G. Hornberger Pay Equity Errors by Sheldon Richman Tax-Cut Fallacies by Sheldon Richman The Capricious State by Sheldon Richman The King's False Legacy by Sheldon Richman back to top March 1999 Castro's Abandonment of Socialist Principle by Jacob G. Hornberger Constitution 101 by Sheldon Richman Do Our Rights Come from the Constitution? by Jacob G. Hornberger Preventing Holocausts by Sheldon Richman Searching for Monsters Abroad by Sheldon Richman Support Cuban Dissidents-Lift ...
Commentaries – 1999 by Future of Freedom Foundation June 22, 2010 January 1999 A Better State of the Union Address by Jacob G. Hornberger Euro is a No-Go by Sheldon Richman Open Borders: A Gift from the Founders by Jacob G. Hornberger Rhinestone Benevolence by Sheldon Richman The Economic Ignorance of Our 'Leaders' by Sheldon Richman The Hot Air Emanates from Washington by Sheldon Richman The Mexican Heritage in the American Southwest by Jacob G. Hornberger February 1999 A 10 Percent Tax Cut? Repeal the 16th Amendment Instead by Jacob G. Hornberger Brazil and the Crisis of Paternalism by Jacob G. Hornberger Pay Equity Errors by Sheldon Richman Tax-Cut Fallacies by Sheldon Richman The Capricious State by Sheldon Richman The King's False Legacy by Sheldon Richman March 1999 Castro's Abandonment of Socialist Principle
Hornberger’s Blog, April 2005 by Jacob G. Hornberger April 1, 2005 Saturday, April 30, 2005 One of the interesting twists of fate in Iraq involves Bush versus Bush with respect to the regime that would rule Iraq. After U.S. military forces under Bush I ousted Saddams forces from Kuwait in the Persian Gulf intervention, Bush I encouraged the Shiites and the Kurds to revolt. However, U.S. officials ultimately decided to stand aside while Saddam slaughtered the insurgents, filling mass graves with their bodies, because U.S. officials concluded that a Shiite regime would be worse than a Saddam regime given that it would likely align itself with Iran, another enemy of the U.S. government. When Bush II invaded Iraq many years later, his hope was obviously to simply replace Saddam with a dictator that would align Iraq within the U.S. Empire, permitting the U.S. to move its military bases in Saudi Arabia to Iraq and permitting U.S. oil companies to have the best oil-producing contracts. That was the idea behind installing either Pentagon favorite ...
Migration Affirms Hunger for Freedom by Fergus Hodgson June 14, 2011 The Mercatus Center has just released a tantalizing ranking of freedom for the American states, including individual state profiles and a feast of data analysis. Most compelling, though, is the insight that people know where freedom is, and they’re migrating to it. Over the 2000 to 2009 period, the difference between a state ranked in the bottom third, ...
Will the Rich Stick Around to Be Soaked? by Wendy McElroy June 1, 2013 On December 8, the website Breitbart heralded, “Despite Tax Increase, California State Revenues in Freefall.” In the November state elections, a successful Proposition 30 imposed a 13.3 percent tax rate on income over $1,000,000 — an increase of 29.13 percent and the highest state tax rate in the nation. The predicted tax revenue was hailed as a way to ...
Jacob Hornberger to Speak at Freedom Library by Future of Freedom Foundation March 27, 2014 FFF president Jacob G. Hornberger will be speaking via Skype to the Freedom Library on "The Morality, Practicality, and Constitutionality of Open Borders." Tickets start at $10. Please visit the for more information, visit FreedomLibrary.org.
A Misguided Attack on The Future of Freedom Foundation by Jacob G. Hornberger March 27, 2014 In an article at PJMedia.com, writer Keith Farrell suggests that libertarians should support foreign interventionism and specifically takes The Future of Freedom Foundation and LewRockwell.com to task for opposing foreign interventionism. Acknowledging that some U.S. interventions have proven to be absolute disasters, Farrell feels that libertarians should nonetheless be supporting U.S. foreign interventionism in selected cases. Farrell is wrong. ...
The U.S. Government’s Regime-Change Obsession Rears Its Ugly Head Again by Jacob G. Hornberger April 4, 2014 The U.S. government’s 116-year-old obsession with controlling Cuba has suddenly manifested itself again. Yesterday, the Associated Press, based on secret records that it obtained, reported that USAID, the federal agency that distributes billions of dollars in U.S.-taxpayer funded foreign aid and which has long served as a front organization for the CIA, has been engaged in a super-secret, ...
Voluntary vs. Mandatory Charity by Jacob G. Hornberger January 2, 2015 As everyone knows, one of the major differences between statists and libertarians is over the issue of charity. Libertarians believe that charity should be voluntary. Statists believe it should be mandatory. In analyzing this fundamental difference in perspective, there is one indisputable fact: The more wealth there is in a society, the greater the amount of charity that can be ...
Freedom To Move: Personal Liberty or Government Control, Part I by Richard M. Ebeling July 21, 2015 The immigration issue has once more bubbled to the surface in America because of the provocative statements and assertions by one of the Republication contenders for their party’s presidential nomination. Immigrants – especially illegal immigrants – are accused of stealing the jobs of “real” Americans, of mooching off the welfare state at the expense of taxpaying U.S. citizens and legal ...
Innovation, Patents, and the Industrial Revolution by David K. Levine June 1, 2015 The Most Powerful Idea in the World: The Story of Steam, Industry and Invention by William Rosen (University of Chicago Press 2012), 376 pages. This is the story of an important microcosm of the Industrial Revolution: the development of the railroad. Although the story is one of personalities — and the book is engaging and a good read ...
The Fear Of Terrorism Is Destroying Our Freedom by Richard M. Ebeling December 28, 2015 The year that is just closing, 2015, has been full of events that continue to dominate the news, including renewed racial tensions on the streets of American cities, growing fears about terrorist attacks on the territory of the United States, and one of the most fear-focused presidential campaign seasons in living memory. Through it all there is one underlying thread ...
