How Protectionism Erodes the Rule of Law
Perhaps most importantly, free trade, domestic and abroad, reinforces and sustains the rule of law, while protectionism undermines it.… Read More
Perhaps most importantly, free trade, domestic and abroad, reinforces and sustains the rule of law, while protectionism undermines it.… Read More
Violating Santa Barbara’s plastic straw ban could land you in jail for up to 6 months and a fine up to $1,000 per violation.… Read More
Such confusion is caused by how minimum wage rhetoric frames the topic. Oftentimes people argue if businesses can afford to pay higher minimum wages.… Read More
In the first book of the Republic, Plato shares a conversation between Socrates and Thrasymachus, a Sophist orator, that touches on the nature of truth, justice, and law.… Read More
One of the fatal flaws in the concept of “limited” government is the judiciary. Endowed with the compulsory monopoly of the vital power of deciding disputes, of ultimately deciding who can wield force and how much can be wielded, the government judiciary sits as an unchecked and unlimited tyrant.… Read More
If we are to regain the liberty that we have lost, and the fully and consistently applied rule of law that once was the guardian of our liberty and freedom of enterprise, we must reawaken in our fellow citizens an understanding of what liberty is. … Read More
Attorney General Jeff Sessions kicked off the New Year by reversing the Obama-era guidance for federal prosecutors to limit their enforcement of federal marijuana laws in states that have legalized marijuana for medical or recreational use.… Read More
The horrors of twentieth-century socialism —of Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, and Pol Pot—were the offspring of 1917.… Read More
Most small businesses would have a problem. More than 80% of tax filers with small-business income are already taxed at rates of 25%.… Read More
Obamacare is the signature legislation of former President Barack Obama, enacted in 2010 and upheld by the Supreme Court in 2012.… Read More