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• Seen and Unseen, Vol II

  
  Kayak2U — Authority: 431
  Its amazing the things I havent read that I know are out there waiting to be read, and that I know Id like reading. Via Mises, from Bastiats That Which Is Seen, and That Which Is Not Seen , on taxes : For instance, I want to agree with a drainer to make a trench in my field for a hundred sous. Just as we have ...
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• California outlaws large, power-hungry TVs

  
  BLOGDIAL — Authority: 461
  In a move that could spell the end of the plasma TV industry as we know it, the state of California agreed today to enact strict regulations on the amount of power televisions can consume, effectively outlawing most large plasma TVs as of January 1, 2011, with many more televisions set to be banned beginning January ...
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• Using Belichick to explain Bastiat

  
  United Liberty - Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government — Authority: 561
  Over at the Tax Foundation , Gerald Prante explains some of Frédéric Bastiat ’s economic beliefs by using New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick’s decision to go for it on 4th and 2 against the Indianapolis Colts : The type of response we see to Coach Belichick’s decision is too often what we ...
  2 weeks ago

• On Our Original Chacha... And Poona Today

  
  ANTIDOTE — Authority: 467
  The newspapers today are all full of Nehru – today is the 120th birth anniversary of our Original Chacha. Mint has many articles on the man and quite a few great photos too. I suggest you buy a copy. The Times of India , oddly enough, has many State advertisements – including one paid for by the ministry of ...
  2 weeks ago

• It is not about health care insurance coverage, it is about health care COSTS

  
  Athanatos Christian Apologetics Ministry — Authority: 124
  But, besides all this, there is something which is not seen. The fifty millions expended by the State cannot be spent, as they otherwise would have been, by the tax-payers. It is necessary to deduct, from all the good attributed to the public expenditure which has been effected, all the harm caused by the prevention ...
  2 weeks ago

• For Liberty, Against Democracy

  
  ANTIDOTE — Authority: 467
  A bumper sticker Scott Horton sent me reads: “Bad Criminals Go To Jail, The Best Go To Washington.” It was shortly after enjoying a great laugh these stickers gave me that I read the news about how MNS chauvinists roughed up an MLA for taking his oath in Hindi. The headline in the Times of India is ...
  3 weeks ago

• Pretending what is unseen doesn’t exist

  
  The Real Revo — Authority: 486
  In a comment on James’ post below, I mentioned Frédéric Bastiat (pronounced bast-ya) and his essay, That Which is Seen and Unseen. Bastiat is the the source of the broken window fallacy we have talked about here several times. It is instructional that Bastiat wrote his essay in the middle of the nineteenth ...
  4 weeks ago

• The End of Statism (after its rise)

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 564
  D o w n s i z e r – D i s p a t c h Quotes of the Day: “The State is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” — Frederic Bastiat, French economist of the 19th Century “How did I go bankrupt? Two ways. Slowly, and then all of a sudden.” — ...
  4 weeks ago

• On Jungle Drums... And Pretty Boys

  
  ANTIDOTE — Authority: 467
  Just the other day I discussed a peculiar schizophrenia my perpetually stoned, simple-minded chillum-yaar suffered from. If you recall the tale of Guru, his precise error lay in suggesting “good things” for The State to do. He said: “Why don’t they clean up all the pollution in the Ganga and the Jumna instead ...
  4 weeks ago

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