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Sacrificing Truth

Media Censorship-Sacrificing Truth

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Unfortunately, in Germany, and at least sporadically in the United States, “truth” is whatever the government proclaims. “Disinformation” is whatever contradicts the latest government pronouncements.
Last Sunday, 60 Minutes featured tyrannical German prosecutors boasting about persecuting private citizens who made comments that officialdom disapproved. Three prosecutors explained how the government was entitled to launch pre-dawn raids and lock up individuals who criticized politicians, complained about immigrant crime waves, or otherwise crossed the latest revised boundary lines of acceptable thoughts.

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Uncle Sam Cranking out Dollars

The Real Effects of Cutting Government Waste

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Almost no one believes that government waste is a good thing. But the devil is in the details when it comes to deciding what actually constitutes “waste”.  Suddenly, no one wants their pet project cut. The  Government Accountability Office (GAO) lists thirty-seven government programs that are considered highly vulnerable to fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement.

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Taxes vs Tariffs

Are Some Forms of Taxation Worse Than Others for the Economy?

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All taxation is generally bad for the economy…this is why virtually every administration that’s tried tax cuts has found them to be stimulative to the economy, going all the way back to at least JFK. Now, as the question suggests, there are different ways government takes resources out of the private sector, and they all have different characteristics regarding exactly who they harm.

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Drowning in Red tape

Bureaucracy: The Red Tape that Prevents Economic Growth

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Argentina’s “Chainsaw policy” shows how stifling red tape and bureaucracy can be and how beneficial eliminating it can be. Two months after Milei assumed the presidency, nine thousand state jobs had been eliminated, and by the end of March fifteen thousand layoffs had been ordered. Furthermore, when Javier Milei spoke at the IEFA Latam Forum, he mentioned that seventy thousand contracts of public employes were going to be canceled. He also mentioned that two hundred thousand social programs were eliminated, and public works were also eliminated.
Not surprisingly, the state has not only not collapsed, but it has experienced its third consecutive fiscal surplus, showing unequivocally to the world that the excessive state bureaucracies do nothing but harm.

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Maui Wildfire

What Made Maui’s Lahaina Fire So Deadly?

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To review, a power company shielded from competition by the state placed electrical infrastructure among highly flammable state-owned grass fields above the historic city of Lahaina, which the government was twice warned were highly susceptible to fire. And once a fire broke out, a combination of defective water infrastructure, terrible communication by government officials, and only one escape route doomed the people of Lahaina to the worst wildfire experienced in this country in over a hundred years.

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Crumbling Fractional Reserve Bank

Is this the End of Fractional Reserve Banking?

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In the following article Douglas French looks at the shaky Fractional Reserve Banking system that has been around since it was created by the Banking Act of 1933 (aka. the Glass-Steagall Act), which also created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Will Fractional Reserve Banking survive to celebrate its Centennial anniversary?  Recent trends in Idaho (of all places) could spell the end of fractional reserve banking (but not the FED).

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Central Bank Digital Currency

Is it Really Paranoid to Worry about a Central Bank Digital Currency?

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Recently there has been talk about the FED creating a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC). A CBDC is similar to a cryptocurrency, except that its value is set by the central bank and equivalent to the country’s fiat currency. Some countries like Venezuela have already tried a National Cryptocurrency in an effort to solve their inflation problem, but since the same guys are pulling the levers, it worked out about as well as you would expect.

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Red and Blue States

Do “Red States” Ride the “Blue State” Gravy Train?

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When Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene called (again) for “national divorce” this week, a common retort among her detractors on Twitter was to claim that so-called red states are heavily dependent on so-called blue states to pay for pretty much everything. Reporter Molly Knight claimed, for example, that “Red states get their money for roads and cops and schools from blue states. You cut off that gravy train and you e [sic] got a third world country.”

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