Libertarian Party of Montgomery County
Promoting liberty throughout the Greater Dayton area and the Miami Valley
Nanna said Ohio voters who aren’t satisfied with the candidates put forward by the Republican and Democratic parties should take a look at his party’s candidates.
“It’s important voters should have more choices at the end of the day, regardless of whether or not you’re a Libertarian or you agree with Libertarian views,” Nanna added. “I think it’s important that we put our best foot forward and run as many candidates as possible.”
There is a reason that most countries don’t tax total assets — and it’s not generosity. Rather, it is because such taxes are unproductive. As might be expected, wealth taxes lead to capital flight and brain drain; they cause a drop in savings and investment, as well as entrepreneurship. They have high administrative costs (involved in finding and valuing assets). In the end, wealth taxes tend to yield low revenue, while dragging down economic growth. But they do make for good politics, especially in election years; envy commands votes.
Under their idealized system, socialists claim, the government’s centralized redistribution of resources will be fair, equal, and democratic. Yet it certainly says something about such a system that it collapses into outright tyranny every time it is attempted. Socialist governance seems to require concentrating an extraordinary amount of power in elite government decision makers; this tends to produce a new ruling class, the widespread deprivation of political rights for everyone else, and crippling poverty.
The prohibition of drugs produces on the average 10,000 additional homicides a year. It’s a moral problem that the government is going around killing 10,000 people. It’s a moral problem that the government is making into criminals people who may be doing something you and I don’t approve of but who are doing something that hurts nobody else.
…Louisiana law had never been revised to comply with the First Amendment…
In April, the Aldine Independent School District voted to authorize the use of eminent domain to seize the home and surrounding acre of land currently owned and occupied by 79-year-old Travis Upchurch, reported the Houston Chronicle in July.
In 1973, Pink Floyd released The Dark Side of the Moon which included the single ‘Money,’ on which Roger Waters snarled:
Money
Get back
I’m alright, Jack, keep your hands off of my stack
‘Money,’ according to one critic, “deals with crass materialism.” But by the time Pink Floyd recorded The Wall in 1979, they did so in France and the United States because remaining in Britain would have incurred a massive tax bill.
“Why do I want to put in all the money to get a piece of paper that really isn’t going to help with what I’m doing right now?”
https://reason.com/2023/03/09/fewer-people-are-going-to-college-that-could-be-a-good-thing/
As these states’ experience shows, applying the ABC test nationally would force hundreds of now‐independent occupations to be reclassified as employees, regardless of workers’ and employers’ own contracting decisions. This could impose significant economic harms—including for the very workers the proposed rule is supposedly protecting.
https://www.cato.org/blog/whats-next-americas-independent-workers