TheGreatCompromise

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Posts tagged socialism

Nov 11

Taxpayers Subsidize Walmart's Cheap Labor

State Socialists are always complaining about the state privilege given to corporations, but then they insist on welfare programs that subsidize cheap labor. Eighty percent of Walmart employees receive some type of government assistance to the tune of $2.66 Billion. That’s an average of $420,000 per store. In a free market without the state’s artificial scarcity rents, licensure monopolies, and other regulations, Walmart would have to compete in a free market for labor that would be much more scarce and expensive.

All Rights Are Property Rights

Rothbard rightly asserts: “Liberals generally wish to preserve the concept of “rights” for such “human” rights as freedom of speech, while denying the concept to private property. And yet, on the contrary the concept of “rights” only makes sense as property rights. For not only are there no human rights which are not also property rights, but the former rights lose their absoluteness and clarity and become fuzzy and vulnerable when property rights are not used as the standard…the person’s right to his own body, his personal liberty, is a property right in his own person…” It is because we own our bodies and our liberty that we own our labor and the fruits of our labor. If I control one’s property, then I control his liberty and his body.

However, more interesting than the lack of understanding by the modern liberal in the connection between self ownership and property, is the lack of understanding by the state socialist and the capitalist in the value of labor in property.

Oct 24

That’s right. Americans buy as many Ak-47s as the Russian military and police. America is also the most heavily armed nation in the world with an estimated 270,000,000 guns owned by private citizens.

We truly are the worlds largest gorilla fighting force. No body in their right mind would invade us if we had no central government with whom to negotiate, no organized military front with which to engage or leadership with whom to negotiate, and no central banking system, IRS, treasury, currency monopolies or any other system with which one could abscond the wealth of the people.

We would have over 300,000,000 people all armed with who knows what and the majority of whom pay a monthly subscription fee to one of thousands of private rights enforcement agencies/security companies who are more heavily armed and have customers to protect.

We would also have a free market. A market where people of all nations could come and trade freely through voluntary exchange. We would have nations from all over the world who would want to protect their free markets in North America. We would regain our position once again as a beacon of freedom to the rest of the world.

We also would no longer have to slave to pay for wars with which we disagreed. We would not have to worry about our government butting their nose into the business of others to such a degree that some want to commit acts of terror against us. We wouldn’t need to worry about illegals crossing the boarder since there would be no free government social programs.

We would truly be safer without the government. It is the undeniable logic of peace.

It’s time for an evolution!

Oct 23

libertariancontrarian:

There is another choice.

Or you could vote “No Confidence.”

Why are Americans so easy to manipulate?

c4ss:

We may be loathe to admit it, but behaviorism and consumerism are cut from the same cloth…

During the height of Skinner’s fame in the 1970s, it was obvious to anti-authoritarians such as Noam Chomsky (“The Case Against B.F. Skinner”) and Lewis Mumord that Skinner’s worldview—a society ruled by benevolent control freaks—was antithetical to democracy. In Skinner’s novel Walden Two (1948), his behaviorist hero states, “We do not take history seriously”; to which Lewis Mumford retorted, “And no wonder: if man knew no history, the Skinners would govern the world, as Skinner himself has modestly proposed in his behaviorist utopia.” …

(via dom72)

Oct 22

skillsne:

The Myth of the Free Market Cartel | by Murray N. Rothbard (by Nielsio)

(via moralanarchism)

I don’t see why I have to labor and spend time away from my family or volunteer work in order to subsidize this corporation.

(via andryushacx)

“A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship. The average age of the world’s greatest civilizations has been 200 years.” Alexis de Tocqueville (via thedailyliberty)

(via thedailyliberty-deactivated2012)

moralanarchism:

The Myth of the Rational Voter - Dr Bryan Caplan on Freedomain Radio

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