After my recent talk to Houston Oasis, an audience member expressed his disgust with developers who cut down trees to develop the land. There should be a law, he said, to stop them from doing so. In other words, he didn’t like the actions that others are taking, and he advocated using brute force to…
A growing number of Congressmen are calling for Sen. Bob Menendez to resign after being charged for a variety of crimes, including bribery. Menendez and his wife allegedly received cash, gold bars, and other assets in exchange for the Senator’s influence. The calls for Menedez to resign are a classic case of the pot calling…
This post is the sixth in a series. In the early 1990s, I wrote a paper titled “Government Without Taxation.” In the paper, I examined various ways to finance government without coercive taxation. At the time, I thought that this would be a good topic for a book and made several futile attempts to write…
Last week, the United States House of Representatives passed the “Parents Bill of Rights Act.” When the bill was first introduced, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said, We want the parents to be empowered. And that’s what we’re doing today – that you have a say in your kids’ education, not government. If McCarthy and other…
What if there were no government regulations? What if there were no public schools, public libraries, or public parks? What if there were no labor laws, minimum wage laws, or prohibitions on discrimination? How would government function if it did not force you to pay for its services? If you are like most Americans, you…
Force is not a creative power. Force is a destructive power. The only goal that can be achieved through force is destruction. Force cannot build a house, write software, grow food, or create any value. The only thing that force can “achieve” is the destruction of values. However, if you examine nearly any political issue,…
In his concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas wrote, “In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell. Because any substantive due process decision is ‘demonstrably erroneous, we have a duty to ‘correct the error’ established in those…
Joe Biden recently condemned “far-right extremism,” calling comments made by Republican leaders, including Trump, “semi-fascism.” Biden is correct to identify the growing elements of fascism within the Republican party. However, he fails to recognize the fascist elements within his own policies. Biden and Trump are two faces of fascism. In an article titled, “The Fascist…
Government is an agency of force. Everything it does is ultimately backed by physical coercion. Government dictates how much you should pay in taxes. Refuse to do so and somebody with a gun will show up to seize your property, throw you in jail, or both. In most locales, government dictates how you can use…
A report published in The Atlanta Journal-Constitution claims that landlords force renters to sign away their rights. The report details provisions in a standard lease that offer unattractive options to tenants and asserts that this is an act of force. The truth is, having to choose between unattractive alternatives isn’t force. As an example, the…
In his concurring opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas said that the Court should reconsider other due process cases, and he implied, let the states become theocracies. In doing so, Clarence Thomas announced to the world that he is a hypocrite. In his opinion, Thomas wrote, “In future cases,…
In his concurring opinion on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Justice Clarence Thomas has indicated that he would let states become theocracies. Thomas wrote, “In future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court’s substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell.” The ruling in Griswold struck down Connecticut’s ban on contraception. In…