A common misconception of libertarians is that we are ingrates. “You want all the good things governments give you,” a self-proclaimed progressive will say, “but you don’t want to pay for them.” The Free Agent would like to correct that misapprehension—it is illogical to be grateful to the brute who lifts a dollar from her […]
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In The Free Agent’s last job, she alternately amused and shocked her coworkers with statements like, “if it were up to me, there would be no employment laws”. A large part of her duties, after all, was to keep Hippy Week on the right side of labor laws. By the end of her eight-year tenure,
The Free Agent wonders how naughty New Yorkers were before she moved here that in the political equivalent of dialing Nanny 911, they elected Michael Bloomberg as mayor. In almost nine years since he established Flowertown (term limits, schmerm limits!), the tentacles of governance have crept up to Floweridians’ every conceivable orifice. Prepare for uncharacteristic
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republished from Eric Sundwall’s post in Examiner.com November 5th, 2010 While some partisans lick their chops in anticipation of their new political spoils and others their wounds from electoral battle, Libertarian Party members of NY and activists are scrambling to determine if in fact they may have ballot status. Reminded of the 1998 effort of the
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In case you hadn’t heard, Bob Murphy, Austrian school wunderkind, has come up with a novel way to get Paul Krugman to finally debate and put up or shut up about his particular flavor of pilfer-thy-neighbor economics. It’s pretty cool. Murphy has raised fifty thousand dollars, that’s right, fifty thousand, that will be given to
Here’s the gist of liberal critiques of conservatives and libertarians. As far as conservatives go, the whole lot are hypocrites since they want things like social security and medicare to remain in place for their constituencies. Liberals don’t really dare say much anymore about the disturbing costs of American military hegemony these days. As far
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You would think that speaking to a ballroom full of libertarians about ending the war on drugs would be like trying to talk the AARP into senior discounts. Even as she dipped into her pear-cinnamon-chocolate mousse parfait, The Free Agent mentally donned her choir robe and prepared to be preached to. But the speaker, The
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Election day is tomorrow and we have more and more evidence that our message of “stop wasting money “ is resonating with the voters. Warren Redlich polled 7% in a recent Rochester Business Journal poll. Though you can never count on polls it is reason for optimism. Our opponents have noticed and they are running
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