Libertarian Party of Montgomery County
Promoting liberty throughout the Greater Dayton area and the Miami Valley
From sugar and steel consumers to students who already paid off their loans or used their savings to pay for their education, political capitalism punishes those who aren’t elite or can’t organize to extract favors from politicians. Sadly, it gives a bad name to both politics and capitalism.
https://reason.com/2023/03/09/american-capitalism-is-crony-at-its-core/
There is solid evidence diversion programs are a win‐win opportunity, reducing welfare participation and expenditures while helping recipients. Yet, even in those states with diversion programs on the books, those options are rarely utilized. This is a lost opportunity.
https://www.cato.org/blog/diversion-dole-alternative-traditional-welfare-part-i
On the market, which is a paradigm of voluntary cooperation, each individual serves the interests of others by pursuing his own. Economics helps understand this lesson.
Monte Cristo shows how this can flower into something more open and affordable: by avoiding excessive rules in the first place.
https://reason.com/2023/02/19/how-a-public-housing-project-became-an-unplanned-neighborhood/
…every socialist experiment is a bright new dawn in the beginning and then a “that’s not real socialism!” hellscape a few years later. Russia, China, Cuba, Zimbabwe, Nicaragua — all hailed by socialists in the beginning, then ignored or dismissed once the results became visible.
Two stalled developments in New York City demonstrate a flawed approach to affordability. By demanding affordable “set-asides,” the city forces market-rate units to subsidize low-rent ones.
As long as natural gas is used to generate electricity, bans on natural gas use in new residential construction result in reductions in CO2 emissions only if very high efficiency heat pumps are used and only if combined cycle rather than simple gas turbines are used for generation. All other uses of electricity actually increase emissions because of the heat losses in electricity generation. So why are localities in Blue America banning natural gas?
https://www.cato.org/blog/natural-gas-electricity-thermodynamics
You can make something yourself, someone can give it to you as a gift, you can steal it, or you can trade for it. Doing it yourself is fun sometimes, but unless you’re doing it recreationally, DIY is the road to poverty and starvation.