For many the government is the only option available when one is talking about defence. This does not need to be the case. Get convinced by reading an excerpt from Murray Rothbard’s Power & Market (pdf).
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Jean-Babtiste Say about governments
March 28, 2007An interesting article about Jean-Baptiste Say by Amadeus Gabriel:
Thus, society could work without government management if people carried out their business and let other people carry out their business at the same time. Say underlines his position by giving some historical examples. Writing in 1819, he observes that at times during the previous thirty years, France had found itself in a situation in which all the authorities were suddenly halted. In these critical moments, no government was at all existent. And what does Say observe? During these periods, the essential functions of the social body could not have been carried out in a better way: everything worked, better than would have normally been the case. Say states that the worst occurred in times when people were too much governed.
Inflation is the increase in the money supply
March 27, 2007How do you like it when someone is exchanging nothing for something?
Kings did it in the past and we are doing it at the moment in massive scale as well.
Money and Inflation: The Tendency to Deny Reality by Frank Shostak.
Governments are killing you
March 25, 2007“Too many people living in democracies are lulled into believing that they are free because they have the right to vote and elections are held periodically. If you take conscription for military service as an example, I think you would find that if it was proclaimed by a sole monarch, the people would revolt and disobey. However, in a democracy, when the politicians vote for it, the people comply and still think they are free.”
In the twentieth century 170 million people were killed by governments. It’s the bloodiest century in all history. Read an excerpt from A Century of War by John V. Denson.
Your pension is not paid for (most likely)
March 22, 2007Most of the developed countries have state pension systems that are dependent on annual tax revenues. This system based on false promises and illusions is something that will not last forever. Watch out and read Oskari Juurikkala’s article about Old-age Security Without the State.