by Eric Scheiner. A sweet deal for spending-crazed politicos. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) introduced this week the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Tax (SWEET Act), which aims to institute a tax of one cent per teaspoon – 4.2 grams - of sugar, high fructose corn syrup or caloric sweetener. The measure (HB 5279), introduced Wednesday says ... MORE
Showing posts with label collectivism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label collectivism. Show all posts
Democrat Nanny Wants Every Teaspoon Of Sugar Taxed
by Eric Scheiner. A sweet deal for spending-crazed politicos. Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) introduced this week the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Tax (SWEET Act), which aims to institute a tax of one cent per teaspoon – 4.2 grams - of sugar, high fructose corn syrup or caloric sweetener. The measure (HB 5279), introduced Wednesday says ... MOREShould Vaccines Be Mandatory? - A Libertarian Debate
by M. Welch, R. Bailey, J A. Singer & S. Reider. Few issues divide libertarians so emphatically as
government-mandated vaccinations against communicable diseases, as
reason discovered after including anti-vaccine
activist Jenny McCarthy in our "45
Enemies of Freedom" list (August/September 2013). That
selection brought forth a ... MOREAtlas Shrugged Part III: Who Is John Galt?
by Brian Doherty. A labor of love over money. John Aglialoro is a businessman, and a very successful one, named by Fortune magazine in 2007 as the 10th richest small business executive in the country. But his latest project is, he says, about “love.” It’s the film Atlas Shrugged III: Who is
John Galt?, the conclusion of a trilogy of movies based ... MOREObama To Americans: You Don't Deserve To Be Free
by Harry Binswanger. President Obama’s Kansas speech is a remarkable document. In calling for more government controls, more taxation, more collectivism, he has two paragraphs that give the show away. Take a look at them. "there is a certain crowd in Washington
who, for the last few decades, have said, let’s respond to this ... MORE
Phyllis Schlafly: National Takeover Of School Curriculum
Parents balk at latest indoctrination scheme. Many people said ho-hum when President Barack Obama threatened to change any law with his pen or phone, and even use that power to personally alter Obamacare and the welfare law, and to "legislate" the Dream Act that Congress refused to pass. But Americans are rising up by the ... MOREWalter E Williams: Concealing Evil
The slavery liberals love. Evil acts are given an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding socialistic expressions, such as spreading the wealth, income redistribution, caring for the less fortunate, and the will of the majority. Let's have a thought experiment to consider just how much Americans sanction evil. Imagine there are several elderly ... MOREObama’s SOTU Brings Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged to Life
by George Rasley. President Obama’s State of the Union address skillfully glossed over just what a sorry state the Union is in these days. Obama’s address, full of deceit and the obfuscation of any facts at odds with his hard-left secular agenda, stands out in its repetition of the threat to act without Congress as perhaps the most anti-democratic ... MOREIncome Redistribution's Logical Conclusion Is Communism
by Jeffrey Dorfman. Income inequality is dominating the economic news cycle at the moment with multiple stories about rising income inequality, the need to raise the minimum wage, and anecdotal stories designed to make the more fortunate feel sorry for the less so. There are, however, two big problems with this narrative. First, most of the ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Hope For A Cure To ObamaCancer
Mr. Forward, Barack Obama, is not forwarding health; he’s forwarding
cancer. He’s on “one more campaign” to pitch ObamaCare, which is quickly
metastasizing into ObamaCancer. Where’s our hope for a cure? Two weeks ago, President Obama said: “I’ve run my last political
campaign, but I’ve got one more campaign in me, and that’s ... MORE
John Stossel: Thankful For Property
Thankfully avoiding the tragedy of the commons. Had today's politicians and opinion-makers been in power four centuries ago, Americans might celebrate "Starvation Day" this week, not Thanksgiving. The Pilgrims started out with communal property rules. When they first settled at Plymouth, they were told: "Share everything, share ... MOREChristopher Cantrill: The True Face Of Collectivism
And it is not pretty. Most politicians are crafty. They hide the mailed fist of political power in a velvet glove of caring and compassion, and they conjure up an appealing picture of competence to hide the reality of blundering ineptitude. But not Barack Obama. He believes his own propaganda; he's even said so. He thinks that politics is ... MOREBrian Cates: The True Purpose Of ObamaCare
A single payer Trojan Horse. The Affordable Care Act is already doing a fantastic job at it's true purpose: taking great health insurance plans away from people and replacing them with either a much higher-priced, inferior plan or....nothing. In all the discussion about ObamaCare, many people are missing the point about the true purpose of ... MORE
Give Back? It's Time For The 99% To Give Back To The 1%
by Harry Binswanger. It’s time to gore another collectivist sacred cow. This time it’s the
popular idea that the successful are obliged to “give back to the
community.” That oft-heard claim assumes that the wealth of high-earners
is taken away from “the community.” And beneath that lies the perverted
Marxist notion that wealth is accumulated ... MOREMichael J. Hurd: Does The State Own Your Child?
Obama and Germany say yes. The Romeike family, Christian evangelicals, wanted to homeschool their children, but the German authorities wouldn’t permit it. So the Romeikes came to America (Tennessee, to be precise), where there’s lots of homeschooling, and where a federal judge granted them asylum. The Germans didn’t ... MOREStella Morabito: The Dynamics Of Tyranny
I am he as you are he and you are me and ... Before George Orwell wrote 1984, there was Yevgeny Zamyatin's We. If you're not acquainted with Zamyatin's novel, you will find it an extraordinary study on the dynamics of tyranny. Zamyatin, a Russian, wrote We around 1921. It was immediately banned by the Soviet censorship board, but ... MOREObama Moves To Levy Cellphone Tax Without Congress
Government of unlimited power flexes its muscles. As we now know from the New York Times, the president hopes to "seize any opportunity I can find to work with Congress to strengthen the middle class, improve their prospects, improve their security. But where Congress is unwilling to act, I will take whatever administrative ... MOREBarry Farber: Obama's New Marxist Ploy
You can learn a lot from an Estonian. A Southern law professor once instructed his class on how to defend
Hell in court. “First you admit that the climate is not the most
comfortable,” came the advice, “and then you admit your companions are
far from the kind of people you’d choose to spend eternity with. Then,”
the professor ... MORE
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