Like the guy in this image. It’s better to be the kind of libertarian (you have 24 choices) who gets into pointless arguments. For what it’s worth, I’m the type of person who became a libertarian simply because I don’t like the inane, foolish, corrupt, destructive, petty, non...
I suspect, though, that Musk would be safe. There’s a principle in cross-border law enforcement known as “dual criminality.” AsI wrote a couple of years ago, this ” is the idea that governments only help each other enforce laws where there is mutual agreement about what’s legal and...
When they should have investigated the other guy that hit me in the back to get his company to pay for the accident! After 5 years with them I had enough The day they decided the claim I all ready had all my insurance bundled for home auto and boat to Move the same day they denied...
That’d be my guess– would also jive with the acting officers being an entire tactical team, doing enforcement where they know there is a very good chance of the guy who isn’t supposed to have a gun not only having a gun, but planning to use it on those who stop him. weefreeir...
Trump’s transactionalism comes with more press, but Obama and the guy before him were transactionalist presidents, too. Just think about Syria to begin with. Getting involved in the butchery there had no logic to it and actually went against the strategy of Obama’s “Pivot to Asia.” ...
The second problem is the flip side of the first. Federal Deposit Insurance relieves depositors of any incentive to question the soundness of their bank’s lending process. Depositors have no reason to look beyond the FDIC sticker in the window. Such is not the case with mutual funds which ...
Earlier this month Guy Verhofstadt, the Belgian MEP…, tweeted that…”We will never accept ‘Singapore by the North Sea’!” What exactly is wrong with being Singapore? …Back in 1755 Adam Smith observed that “little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence ...
Unfortunately, our well-meaning friends on the left think good intentions magically produce good results (they are like the guy in this cartoon). Sadly, all of world history teaches us that this is not the case. At best, big government reduces prosperity. Oftentimes it leads to totalitarianism...
Which is why I very much identify with the guy in this cartoon strip. P.S. If you want more information, about 10 years ago, I narrateda video on tax competition, athree-part video series on tax havens, and evena video debunking some of Obama’s demagogueryon the topic....
Unfortunately, our well-meaning friends on the left think good intentions magically produce good results (they are like the guy in this cartoon). Sadly, all of world history teaches us that this is not the case. At best, big government reduces prosperity. Oftentimes it leads to totalitarianism...