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• For Liberty, Against Democracy

  
  ANTIDOTE — Authority: 494
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Pretending what is unseen doesn’t exist

  
  The Real Revo — Authority: 488
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• The End of Statism (after its rise)

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 536
  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.” — ...
  2 weeks ago

• On Jungle Drums... And Pretty Boys

  
  ANTIDOTE — Authority: 494
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Not Democracy, These Are Tax Parasites

  
  ANTIDOTE — Authority: 494
  As usual, there is never any good news from our The Chacha State. The first thing I read today was that they are “ infusing ” 5000 crore rupees into Air India. Frankly, if I had 5000 crore rupees spare in the public kitty, and wanted to give a fillip to civil aviation, in the interest of consumers, who are "the ...
  4 weeks ago

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