Carson: The rentiers’ last-ditch plan can’t work.
Goodman: “Serve and protect?” Not so much.
Knapp: There’s a poison pill in “equality of outcome” schemes.
Alan Furth on how democracy, at best, alleviates the symptoms of social disease — but never cures its fundamental cause.
Carson: Who depends on whom?
Knapp: The difference between a free economy and an un-free economy IS government — i.e. top-down, hierarchic, uniform, centralized — regulation.
Kevin Carson: Why are they doing it? Because they’re afraid of us.
Carson: The only real way to achieve social justice is by bypassing the state.
Carson: The regulators don’t work for you.
D’Amato: Libyans ought to oppose not any particular political ideology or regime, but the state itself.
David D’Amato on what goes up.
Jason Lee Byas: Who’s really dependent on government?
Knapp: They’re desperate. And they should be.
Knapp: There’s only one way to cut the size and cost of government … off with its head!
Carson: A free market … will eliminate — or socialize — the majority of exchange value in the economy and drive the average rate of profit much closer to zero.
Knapp: The hype has gotten so outrageous that it’s frankly becoming a huge tiresome bore.
Carson: The common thread running through the left-libertarian response is that most of the evils currently remedied by the state result from state intervention in the first place.
Carson: With all the resources wasted on trying to influence a rigged system we could far more easily build the kind of society we want, here and now, without waiting to elect a government to give us permission.
Carson: So long as power and hierarchy exist, they will be used by those at the top to live off the sweat and blood of those at the bottom.
Knapp: Apple used to be an innovative company. Now it’s just a protection racket.
