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The Hidden Costs of a Minimum Wage
One effect of a minimum wage is to reduce the availability of on-the-job training, since more resources are required simply to hire and retain a workforce.
Robert Frank Knows What Is Best For You
This is not the only instance in which Frank refutes his own arguments. Like most good leftists, Frank dislikes SUVs.
Free Bernie Madoff
The whole notion of paying off past investors with the funds of present investors is at the very core of the Social Security system. At least Madoff sought the consent of his investors who let him care for their money based on their own volition. And at least he didn't attempt to defend himself with the claim that he was conducting wise public policy.
Whose Right Is It, Anyway?
Another way of saying this is that any government with the power to take an atheist's money and give it to my church is also a government with the power to take my money and give it to Planned Parenthood. When we use force to restrict others' liberty, we endanger our own.
Anti-State, Anti-War, Pro-Market
The State is the group within society that claims for itself the exclusive right to rule everyone under a special set of laws that permit it to do to others what everyone else is rightly prohibited from doing, namely aggressing against person and property.
7. The Slanderer or Libeler
From Part III of Defending the Undefendable, “Free Speech.” Read by Jeff Riggenbach.
10. The Person Who Yells “Fire!” in a Crowded Theatre
From Part III of Defending the Undefendable, “Free Speech.” Read by Jeff Riggenbach.
13. The Dishonest Cop
From Part IV of Defending the Undefendable, “Outlaw.” Read by Jeff Riggenbach.
