One important difference between the Austrian and other schools of thought is the emphasis Austrians place upon purposeful human behavior. Consumption by individuals is not random, but rather purposeful action driven by subjective individual preferences.
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+++ The words they say- “Without government, how would everyone get fed?” What they’re effectively imagining and narrowly framing due to how grossly government has stunted markets- “How would markets get people through borscht lines at the factory any faster?!” The correct answer and reframing- “Maybe markets couldn’t do that any better. But maybe markets wouldn’t structure in such a way as to have factory cafeterias be the only place for all the workers to get lunch. Maybe […]
They are both similar. Communists want everyone to have equal amount of money. Monogamist (sexual Marxism) wants everyone to have the same numbers of spouse or mates. They are both not natural. Naturally smarter people have way more money than the rest. Once a man has lots more money it is easy to get women. There are billiionaires with lots of children with extremely smart and pretty women. To achieve communism government use force, laws, and lies. To […]
During the last four years, much attention has focused on the Fifth Circuit. But during the first Trump Administration, the Fourth Circuit was the locus of the legal resistance. This court issued landmark rulings against Trump on the Emoluments Clauses, the Travel Ban, and many other policies. During that time, one judge in particular caught my attention time and again: Judge James A. Wynn, an Obama nominee in North Carolina. Consistently, and reliably, he ruled against Trump and […]
The Biden administration, and the political establishment more broadly, is scrambling to ram through policies that a majority of voters just voted against. Their actions expose that their supposed commitment to democracy is a lie.
“[I]t is evident … that the man, who first made himself clothes and built himself a cabin, supplied himself with things which he did not much want, since he had lived without them till then; and why should he not have been able to support in his riper years, the same kind of life, which he had supported from his infancy?” —Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on Equality “Under laissez faire, says the planner, it is not those goods which […]
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA)—passed in 2017 during the first Trump administration—wasn’t really a tax cut in practice. It ended up functionally raising taxes on a lot of people. While it did lower marginal income tax rates across the board, reducing the top rate from 39.6 percent to 37 percent, it also capped the deduction for state and local taxes (SALT) at $10,000 annually. SALT includes income taxes, of course, but also property taxes, so the […]
