An El Paso Christian Charity Is Caught Up in Texas’ Border Fight Against the Feds
El Paso is the U.S.-Mexico border in miniature: Once a permeable landscape, the Texas city is now separated from its sister to the south—Ciudad Juárez—by a harsh apparatus of walls and wire. Thousands of people travel between the two cities daily, splitting their lives between two nations, all while debates rage over who may cross the border and how. When five young Catholics set out to help El Paso’s most vulnerable residents in the late 1970s, these questions […]
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Tweet Mike Munger explains that “the only way to gain jobs is to lose jobs.” Two slices: Politicians want to create jobs, “good-paying union jobs,” in existing industries. But that’s not what markets do. The “destructive” part of creative destruction eliminates jobs in existing industries. In a dynamic economy, innovations indivision of labor can create good-paying jobs in newindustries, but new industries require entrepreneurs, not politicians. Frederic Bastiat had two devastating satires of how policies designed to “create […]
The Inflationist View of History
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The judge lied, kids died, Biden’s brain is fried
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Why tf is this sub filled with socialists
There is a post about how the US the ritchest country in the wolrd and has out competed europe because of the fact that its more economically right wing and it got downvoted with 300 people comenting “Huh so I guess Austrian economics is when you destroy your own population” submitted by /u/Leg-Alert [link] [comments]
Why I love free market instead of endless reasoning
A person can see the same evidences and have totally different conclusions. When many people think Bitcoin is scam then tes that means we are still early.. That is why I buy. But other thinks it’s indeed scam and we came late. In democracy you can be right and hordes of idiot will outvoted you. Under free market if most people are idiots you just buy and when price go up you profit. And that’s fair. You think […]
Kids Online Safety Act Continues to Threaten Our Rights Online: 2024 in Review
At times this year, it seemed that Congress was going to give up its duty to protect our rights online—particularly when the Senate passed the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) by a large majority in July. But this legislation, which would chill protected speech and almost certainly result in privacy-invasive age verification requirements for many users to access social media sites, did not pass the House this year, thanks to strong opposition from EFF supporters and others. […]