Libertarian Policy Foundation

10/08/2024

“Regardless of the direction of causation—whether corporations seek rents, and turn away from making better, cheaper products, or whether politicians sell rents as a way of accumulating power and influence—capitalism in a democracy is precarious. There must be rules, preferably at the constitutional level, that limit the ability of government to pick winners and losers, and to use subsidies or industrial policy to increase the accounting profits of corruption.”

Book Review of What Went Wrong with Capitalism? by Ruchir Sharma.1 Capitalism has a “Pretty Pig” problem. The reference is to a state fair livestock contest, where there is a judging of the beauty of adult swine. There are only two entrants, because adult swine just aren’t pretty. The first pi...

08/05/2024

How about we assume that he wants to do what he publicly says he wants to do, at least until there is objective evidence to the contrary?

05/26/2024

“Libertarianism is a universalist philosophy that believes in the equal dignity of all people. Everyone has the right to self determination. People who only value liberty for themselves, or their countrymen don’t actually believe in liberty.” - Everett, MD

05/10/2024

Intellectual property is rent seeking.

05/05/2024

“The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respected Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations and Religions; whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges…” -𝐆𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧

04/15/2024

Self determination, equal justice, and mutual aid are the core of libertarianism.

03/30/2024

Social conservatives and fiscal conservatives are in conflict when it comes to a social safety net.

Fiscal conservatives want a social safety net to be cost effective.

Social conservatives want to spend more tax dollars to keep “undeserving” people from the social safety net.

03/27/2024

"We are not destructive by nature but by habit"

The Story of Al Baydha: A Regenerative Agriculture in the Saudi Desert....

The final update from Al Baydha Project Co-founder Neal Spackman, 9 years in. How desertification resulted from the loss of an indigenous land management sy...

03/24/2024

If an organization's leaders are manipulative and abusive and the organization does not remove the manipulative and abusive leaders, that is no longer an organization that people who reject manipulation and abuse can ethically continue to associate with.

This is basic decency.