Libertarian Party of Montgomery County
Promoting liberty throughout the Greater Dayton area and the Miami Valley
As policymakers continue to look for ways to make family life easier, more convenient, and more affordable, it is key that they avoid reforms that inadvertently undermine families or reduce the size of the economy and associated opportunities for workers.
https://www.cato.org/blog/new-analysis-finds-expanded-child-tax-credit-reduces-work-growth
The vast majority of ESG funds and firms are similarly misdirective. Freewheeling use of terms like “sustainable” obscure a wide variety of investment activities, some decidedly at odds with common public notions of “green” investing. Between 2019 and June 2022, some 65 US funds were re-branded as “sustainable,” without any consensus as to the meaning of the term.
California’s striking failure to shift consumers from illegal to legal dealers is largely due to a combination of high taxes, onerous regulations, and local retailing bans. While Washington has a relatively high retail marijuana tax (37 percent, plus standard sales taxes), in other respects the state has made it easier for licensed suppliers to compete with illegal sources.
At the insistence of Josef Stalin, the Genocide Convention applies to some mass murders by government (e.g., targeting racial, ethnic, or religious groups) but not to others (e.g., targeting victims for class warfare or ideological reasons). Hence, prof. Rummel coined the term “democide” to describe noncombat mass murders for any reason.
https://reason.com/volokh/2022/11/09/data-on-mass-murder-by-government-in-the-20th-century/
Thirteen percent of the Ukrainian population perished… as Stalin enforced “collectivization.” What followed was “the first truly big lie in the politics of the 20th century…” Stalin denied the famine happened. Most in the outside world knew no better, thanks in part to… the New York Times.
Archived from the Washington Post: https://archive.ph/OZk4q
The fourth Saturday in November is Holodomor Remembrance Day.
“Surely, if the Excessive Fines Clause means anything, it means that the government cannot confiscate a defendant’s entire net worth when the maximum fine set by the legislature is less than one-tenth of the value of the forfeited asset.”
The Pilgrims had run into the “tragedy of the commons.” No individual Pilgrim owned crops they grew, so no individual had much incentive to work.
Bradford’s solution: private property.
https://reason.com/2022/11/23/the-pilgrims-dreamed-of-socialism-then-socialism-almost-killed-them/
Last summer, armed federal agents sent by the USDA demanded that Miller cease operations and prepared to hit him with more than $300,000 in fines. … The farm was ordered to pay the fine within 30 days or face further penalties “including imprisonment of Amos Miller.”
it was not so much from the power of individual reason (which genuine liberals distrusted), as from the results of the interpersonal process of discussion and criticism, that a progressive advance towards truth was expected.
We certainly live in an age of short attention span but many these signs and warnings came weeks or months before the world locked down and they chronicled the damage as it was happening. Why all this came to be completely ignored remains the burning question.