VIDEO: Ayn Rand - Collectivized Rights


Individual rights are protected by the Constitution. But what about collectivized rights?

Handouts Make Up One Third Of U.S. Wages

Government payouts—including Social Security, Medicare and unemployment insurance—make up more than a third of total wages and salaries of the U.S. population, a record figure that will only increase if action isn’t taken before the majority of Baby Boomers enter retirement. Even as the economy has recovered ... MORE

VIDEO: Government Union Collective Bargaining 101

Victor Davis Hanson: Postpone & Procrastinate Generation

The Obama administration figures that it has read the national mood well. This therapeutic generation of Americans loves to talk and worry about problems and then assumes that either someone else will solve them or they will go away on their own. And why not, since we have had periodic "energy crises" since 1974, have run budget deficits in most years since World War II, and have been warned about a looming  ...  MORE

VIDEO: John Stossel - A Right to Collective Bargaining

Jacob Sullum: Tiny Cuts, Big Complaints

Republicans and Democrats squabble over crumbs.
In the context of federal spending that will total something like $3.8 trillion this year, $61 billion is a rounding error. Yet the Democrats resisting that amount in House-approved cuts say it will wreck the economy while leaving children unschooled, taking food from ... MORE