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Fettered Capitalism? | My Own Pie
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Libertarian Thoughts from Renaissance Guy. On another blog some people were discussing capitalism and socialism. One person said that the problem in the American economy is not capitalism but. As I understand capitalism, saying. Is redudant–like saying free freedom or salty salt or wet water. To have. Capitalism would be like having captive freedom or bland salt or dray water. The same person who spoke of. Said that he defined capitalism as a system in which. Businesses are privately owned. I think that ...
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My Own Pie | Libertarian Thoughts from Renaissance Guy | Page 2
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Libertarian Thoughts from Renaissance Guy. This post is an entry in the blog contest responding to the new book,. New Threats to Freedom. Edited by Adam Bellow. The contest is open to all and further information can be found here. 8212;———————————————————–. Speech codes on college campuses are one of the biggest threats to freedom in the United States today. They are, on their face, contrary to the right to free speech. The University of Wisconsin has a speech code. Speech codes do not prohibit only thos...
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The Distribution of Wealth | My Own Pie
https://myownpie.wordpress.com/2010/07/29/the-distribution-of-wealth
Libertarian Thoughts from Renaissance Guy. The Distribution of Wealth. All sorts of historical events put people where they are in the world today. Nobody has control over where they are born or over the socio-economic status of their parents and their extended family. If a person is born to a farming family in Mexico, that’s the hand that he has been dealt–just as much by fate as a poker player’s hand is dealt to him. After all, did either one of them. The state has the right to tax people to pay the Pr...
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For Your Own Good | My Own Pie
https://myownpie.wordpress.com/2010/08/22/for-your-own-good
Libertarian Thoughts from Renaissance Guy. For Your Own Good. More and more, we hear that our government leaders are enacting laws and policies for our own good. We must use corn as fuel, we must switch to low-energy light bulbs, we must stop eating unsaturated fats, we must depend on government bailouts and government-funded health insurance. The list is getting longer all the time. C S Lewis had a low opinion of benevolent governments:. God in the Dock. August 22, 2010 at 6:15 am. I left both comments,...
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Where Do Our Rights Come From? | My Own Pie
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Libertarian Thoughts from Renaissance Guy. Where Do Our Rights Come From? Here’s a multiple-choice question for you. Where do our rights come from? Thomas Jefferson and the signers of the. Believed that our rights come from God:. We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. There are problems with all the other choices above. The courts prese...