Testicular Fortitude
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Milton Friedman on government’s four major functions: 1) Ensure national defense 2) Protect citizens from “abuse and coercion by other citizens” 3) Define and uphold private property rights 4) Maintain a judicial system to adjudicate disputes and enforce rules
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Ao repassar o salário bruto direto ao trabalhador para que ele seja obrigado a pagar os encargos ao governo, fará com que todos entendam que o vilão jamais foi o patrão.
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Removing senseless regulations is not a right-wing versus left-wing issue in Africa. If you care about poor people, you should want those regulations removed because they prevent poor people from working. You should want them removed because they protect connected elites from
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My son’s teacher called me in for an emergency meeting a couple months ago I assumed it was about his grades It was much worse Kids were asked to do a presentation about what they want to be when they grow up My son said “entrepreneur” The teacher looked at me like I had
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“If you adopt the view that a man is not responsible for his own behavior, that somehow society is responsible, why should he seek to make his behavior good?” — Milton Friedman
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The truth about corruption in Africa that nobody wants to admit:
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Capitalism doesn’t dictate how people must act, and it doesn’t demand that anyone be sacrificed to someone else’s sad story. It doesn’t promise to abolish every hardship by force. It refuses to treat need as a moral claim on another person’s life. What capitalism does is leave
@RockChartrand Where does capitalism act to end homelessness? Oh that’s right…it doesn’t.
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This wasn't murder. Renee's death in Minneapolis is tragic. But see it for what it is, not what you want it to be. You can hate ICE. But blocking officers then speeding off in a 2-ton vehicle with people at your bumper is irrational. She rolled the dice. Sadly, she died.
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Republicans have the Presidency, the Supreme Court, the House and the Senate. And yet… We don’t have a Voter ID law. Not a single crooked Democrat has been jailed, censured, impeached, or expelled. Taxpayers are being defrauded by the billions. And Republicans do NOTHING.
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