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everyone hates gas prices

October 29, 2005

A few weeks ago I filled up the tank in my Jeep to the tune of some $55. That was at $3.29 a gallon here in Metro-Detroit. This was the day after Katrina had struck, and my father who had talked to someone “in the know” reported that they were anticipating prices over […]

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hookers & blow

October 26, 2005

I have nothing against strippers, although I think they’re just hookers in a glorified format. They’re basically the same thing, aren’t they? Well, I also think they ought to be able to provide their services wherever they can afford an establishment. I think they ought to have the right to choose their […]

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price gouging, like whoa!

October 21, 2005

Life. Liberty. Property.
On Mises today, I just read probably the most compelling argument against so-called “price-gouging” laws. You can check it out here.
Westley initially brings up the same econo-libertarian arguments that many in-the-know have brought up previously, and he says, look, “[these laws]promote the use of resources in ways that are wasteful. […]

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Re: Protectionism

October 17, 2005

One supposes that we must subsidize steel (or: insert industry) against competition from China (or: insert foreign nation), lest we find ourselves at war with China, under which circumstances she will obviously cease providing us with steel.
Bastiat urges one to consider the logical consequences of action when carried out to the most extreme […]

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random thought of the day

October 12, 2005

People are always complaining that taxes aren’t a fair shake– that the Rich pay a significantly lower portion of their income in taxes (as a %) than the middle class.
Simultaneously, they (it is often the same people) make the case: that an across the board tax-cut benefits the rich at the expense of everyone else. […]

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Jefferson on the jurisdiction of the SCOTUS

October 6, 2005

Previously, in a rather lengthy post about the Second Amendment and the necessity thereof, I was presented with an appeal to authority argument- which implied that the Supreme Court was the ultimate and final decision maker, and its authority was absolute.
Jefferson on the jurisidction of the Courts:

[T]o consider the judges as the ultimate […]

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Let’s all live forever!

October 5, 2005

Disappearing Soon, in a store near you:
Assisted Suicide
Growing up in Michigan, I was familiarized with the plight of a certain Jack Kevorkian, who was made famous in the mid 90s for a series of assisted suicide trials, none of which, I believe, he was ever convicted. They did put him away for some other […]

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