Tag: forced redistribution of the wealth

Tyranny Unmasked, Lord Christopher Monckton Lord Christopher Monckton, a world renowned whistle blower, warned regarding the United Nations: "I read that treaty. And what it says...

BY MARK W. HENDRICKSON When writing about the IMF , I mentioned that bureaucracies tend to do everything possible to perpetuate themselves. So it is...

FREE ENTERPRISE ZONE, FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES Milton Friedman, 1999 "Government is a way by which every individual believes he can live at the expense of everybody else." Source:...

BRUCE YANDLE, THE FREEMAN In medieval times, taxpayers in England’s St. Peter’s parish were required to subsidize parishioners of St. Paul’s who fell behind in...

LLOYD MARCUS, PROUD UNHYPHENATED AMERICAN It sticks in my craw that Conservatives/Republicans are leaning toward, in essence, becoming immoral, stupid and un-American to win Low-Information-Voters....

BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY I recently talked with Professor Stanley Kurtz on my Saturday radio talk program and we discussed his new book called Spreading the...

MARK W. HENDRICKSON, CENTER FOR VISION & VALUES Two news items about “the rich” recently popped up online within a couple of hours of each...

Daily Dabble in the Classics, Edmund Burke To provide for us in our necessities is not in the power of government. It would be a...

Called Unto Liberty, 20th Century Sermons, Kenneth W. Sollitt, 1960 Two youngsters from London were enjoying a holiday in the country. They romped and played...

LAWRENCE W. REED, THE FREEMAN This article is reprinted from the December 1995 issue of The Freeman “Free people are not equal, and equal people are...

MIKE BROWNFIELD, HERITAGE FOUNDATION Back in 1982, President Ronald Reagan decided not to sign a treaty known as “Law of the Sea” (LOST), a United...

NEWSROOM AMERICA President Obama on Tuesday defended his call for tax increases on the wealthiest Americans, saying he is not trying to "redistribute wealth." The increases,...

JON E. DOUGHERTY, NEWSROOM AMERICA President Obama on Tuesday will make a new pitch for the so-called "Buffett Rule," backing up a White House report...

The Moral Liberal, Classics Library Aristotle: "Politics", Book Three, Part 10, 350 B.C.E. There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme...

But today that term has become “politicalized”... and prostituted by politicians into what I fear has become something of a national ideal of comfort and ease.

The benevolent bully’s ideas proved popular among the poorer masses (most of whom had forgotten that it was the bully who had impoverished them.)

Even among free nations we see the encroachment of government upon the lives of the citizenry by excessive taxation and regulation, all done under the guise that the people would not willfully or charitably distribute their wealth, so the government must take it from them. We further observe promises by the state of security, whereby men are taken care of from the womb to the tomb rather than earning this security by the "sweat of their brow" - Ezra Taft Benson

By T.F. Stern, There’s an AP article out of the UK this morning, a story clearing climate scientists in East Anglia of the most serious...