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Injustice in the Name of Justice
In 2015, The Texas Legislature passed a bill that prohibits local governments from forcing landlords to accept housing vouchers. Sen. Royce West has submitted a bill that would repeal that prohibition and make it illegal to refuse to rent to an individual on the basis of his source of income. West’s proposal would apply across…
Picking the Wrong Enemy
Rancher and columnist Amanda Radke correctly notes that freedom and property rights are inseparable. And then she promptly attacks property rights because she picks the wrong enemy: We have a real David and Goliath story happening in agriculture right now. Independent farmers and ranchers are being thrown to the wolves in favor of the corporate…
Republican Disdain for Property Rights
Republicans in Minnesota, Mississippi, and Missouri are joining their colleagues in Texas and Florida in declaring their disdain for property rights and freedom of association. Of course, they aren’t stating it in those terms, but that is in fact what they are doing by supporting restrictions on private businesses. In Minnesota, lawmakers are considering a…
Property Rights and the “Public Interest”
The following is an excerpt from The Innovator Versus the Collective. Every government intervention is justified as being in the “public interest,” the “common good,” the “general welfare,” or something similar. These are collectivist clichés, intended to imply that some policy will have widespread benefits. But in truth, they are used to justify government interventions…
Without Property Rights, No Other Rights are Possible
Nearly forty years ago I read Ayn Rand’s essay “Man’s Rights,” for the first time. I was new to Rand’s writing, and indeed free market thought in general. Rand’s claim that, “Without property rights, no other rights are possible,” struck me as a gross exaggeration. I became determined to discover whether that claim was true….