The Libertarian Must Never Advocate Or Prefer

The Modern Welfare State, Highly Touted As Soaking The Rich To Subsidize The Poor, Does No Such Thing. In Fact, Soaking The Rich Would Have Disastrous Effects, Not Just For The Rich But For The Poor And Middle Classes Themselves. For It Is The Rich Who Provide A Proportionately Greater Amount Of Saving, Investment Capital, Entrepreneurial Foresight, And Financing Of Technological Innovation That Has Brought The Unites States To By Far The Highest Standard Of Living - For The Mass Of The People - Of Any Country In History.

Children Are Prepared For Democracy By Being Led To Discuss Current Events Without First Learning The Systematic Subjects (politics, Economics, History) Which Are Necessary In Order To Discuss Them. The Mole Effect Is To Substitute Slogans And Superficial Opinion For Considered Individual Thought. And The Opinion Is That Of The Lowest Common Denominator Of The Group.

Once One Concedes That A Single World Government Is Not Necessary, Then Where Does One Logically Stop At The Permissibility Of Separate States? If Canada And The United States Can Be Separate Nations Without Being Denounced As In A State Of Impermissible ‘anarchy’, Why May Not The South Secede From The United States? New York State From The Union? New York City From The State? Why May Not Manhattan Secede? Each Neighbourhood? Each Block? Each House? Each Person?

The Fundamental Axiom, Then, For The Study Of Man Is The Existence Of Individual Consciousness

It Is Particularly Odd That Economists Who Profess To Be Champions Of A Free-market Economy, Should Go To Such Twists And Turns To Avoid Facing The Plain Fact: That Gold, That Scarce And Valuable Market-produced Metal, Has Always Been, And Will Continue To Be, By Far The Best Money For Human Society.