We have a right not to be aggressed against. Any other right has to be an application of my right not to have force initiated against me. Now, we need to do this with property rights. We need to treat the violation of property as aggression against self.
Mutualism claims to oppose the exploitation of labor, i.e., the theft of any part of its product.
These are but a few highlights from the outstanding presentations made at the first meeting of the Property and Freedom Society; which stands for an uncompromising intellectual radicalism. If only Murray, that joyous, uncompromising intellectual radical could have been there with us.
I loved my cat. Probably as much as my cousin, Malcolm, who owed me fifty bucks. So when she died — my cat, not Malcolm — I was unhappy.
From the book For A New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto, as narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.
Vedran Vuk, as an economics major, thinks that it's not such a bad thing to treat one's beloved like property, so long as it is private property.
The free market and the free price system make goods from around the world available to consumers. The free market also gives the largest possible scope to entrepreneurs, who risk capital to allocate resources so as to satisfy the future desires of the mass of consumers as efficiently as possible.
Clifford Thies asks: Can we really expect government to create quality cities using redistribution, government programs, and regulations? He shows that the worst cities in America are those that depend on government money and tax everyone to pay for it.
Ray Haynes read a dozen books in graduate school about how to plan for economic growth. Then he sat on a City Planning Commission.
