This week, we explain what NOT to do when talking to people about liberty… with special guest, Libertarian Girl!
The Libertarienne Show is hosted by Cathy Reisenwitz and produced by Sean W. Malone of CitizenA Media, LLC
This week, we explain what NOT to do when talking to people about liberty… with special guest, Libertarian Girl!
The Libertarienne Show is hosted by Cathy Reisenwitz and produced by Sean W. Malone of CitizenA Media, LLC
You have to wonder when SNL takes on Obama’s nonsense.
Saturday Night Live opened the March 2, 2013 episode taking on the big sequestration fight in Congress, with Jay Pharaoh as President Obama admitting to the American people that “I really have no idea how money works or how budgets work,” but did his best to explain to the American people the real-world effects of the budget cuts.
Prager University: Do High Taxes Raise More Money? – YouTube.
Possibly the best short explanation of the Laffer Curve I’ve seen. Of course there is more to be discussed because this example focuses on the morally reprehensible “progressive” tax system wherein 47% of filers wither pay no income taxes or receive a cash bonus for filing. However, we’ll save that for another time.
Tim Groseclose, in addition to being a faculty member at Prager University, is a professor of political science and economics at UCLA. His article on this subject is here.
The Laffer Curve and New Evidence that Taxes Stifle Economic Output
Here is the link to download the Romer & Romer paper (in pdf) from the UC Berkeley website:
The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks
Archived from the live Mises.tv broadcast, this lecture by Robert Higgs was presented at the 2012 Mises University in Auburn, Alabama. Includes an introduction my Mark Thornton. Music by Kevin MacLeod
via Warfare, Welfare, and the State | Robert Higgs – YouTube.
Greeks are pulling their money out of banks at the same time that some of its politicians are threatening to leave the euro. Is the eurozone falling to pieces? Will the European debt crisis spread to the US? Find out as the Allen Barton talks to Terry Jones of IBD, and Yaron Brook of the Ayn Rand Institute.
From John Stossel’s blog:
The Progressive Nightmare
The Conservative Solution
Archived from the live Mises.tv broadcast, this lecture by Hans-Hermann Hoppe was presented at the 2011 Mises University in Auburn, Alabama.
Can be explained by the views on Hayek’s Road to Serfdom
TEA Party: A warning
Cocktail Party*: Nothing to see here, move along.
Dhimmi Party: A roadmap**
*I used to call these the establishmentarian Rethuglicans, but this has come into more common usage and means the same group (the rethuglicaans that spend like dhimmis in order to keep getting invited to the DC cocktail parties) I’ll go with the new term.
**I think the Cloward-Pivens plan took that approach
The Road to Serfdom in Cartoons, Published by General Motors Company, circa 1950, printed in Look Magazine:
PDF File
Windows Media Video File
Readers Digest condensed The Road to Serfdom PDF
The full book is avaialble at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Kobo.com
You might also want to check out Daniel Hannan’s The New Road to Serfsom, A Letter of Warning to American
