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Corruzione: c’è una via più efficace dell’orgia manettara, ma lo Stato non la pratica – LeoniBlog
Un rapporto fresco fresco dell’OCSE rilasciato ieri attesta che l’Italia, tra i paesi avanzati, vanta – si fa per dire – la più alta soglia di “corruzione percepita”. Ben il 90%, rispetto a un tasso bassissimo di fiducia, dio poco superiore al 30%, nel governo in quanto istituzione. Mentre in Svezia, che ha il più Read More
Lo sciopero alla metro di Roma: 3 oltraggi a noi tutti – LeoniBlog
Ieri nella metropolitana di Roma sono avvenute tre cose. A ben vedere, una più grave dell’altra. La prima: una modalità di sciopero che ha legittimamente suscitato l’immediata esasperazione e protesta dei viaggiatori, romani e non. La seconda: una totale divergenza delle ricostruzioni ufficiali su quanto è accaduto. La terza: reazioni sindacali esultanti, aliene da ogni Read More
Dossier Confedilizia: tasse, tasse, tasse – LeoniBlog
C’era una volta, fino a poco tempo fa, l’Italia delle tasse molto alte sul reddito, sia quello da lavoro autonomo che da lavoro dipendente, e delle tasse un po’ meno alte sui patrimoni, sia finanziari che immobiliari. Quell’Italia non c’è più. O meglio, come ha recentemente mostrato Uberto Cardellini, il paese dal folle carico fiscale Read More
ObamaCare – Conservapedia
^HealthCare, !::SOCIALISM INTRINSIC FAILURE, !Welfare, §.ABSTRACT ECONOMY/Keynesianism
dossier: #USA Socialism Failure
From Conservapedia start content ObamaCare, formally known as “The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” (ACA) will impose massive penalties on young workers, small businesses and others who choose not to buy expensive health insurance, beginning in 2014. ObamaCare is the biggest handout by liberals to a single interest group — the health insurance industry
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Statalismi a confronto: i 3 New Deal di Roosevelt, Hitler e Mussolini.
Proponiamo in ANTEPRIMA per L’Indipendenza la traduzione integrale in italiano dell’articolo Hitler, Mussolini, Roosevelt, una recensione apparsa su Reason magazine nell’Ottobre 2007, da parte di David Boaz, vice presidente esecutivo del Cato Institute, al libro 3 New Deal. Parallelismi tra gli Stati Uniti di Roosevelt, l’Italia di Mussolini e la Germania di Hitler. 1933-1939, scritto Read More
Olof Palme | Why I Left Sweden
During his long reign, Tage Erlander, Swedish prime minister between 1946 and 1969, spoke grudgingly of the impending “discontent of growing expectations.” He was referring to how the Swedish labor movement, after decades of expansive welfare reforms, rather than being gratified, seemed incessantly focused on what it had not yet received from the perennial Social Read More
How Laissez-Faire Made Sweden Rich | Libertarianism.org
googleon: indexOctober 25, 2013 essays Sweden often gets held up as an example of how socialism can work better than markets. But, as Norberg shows, Sweden’s history in fact points to the opposite conclusion. Once upon a time I got interested in theories of economic development because I had studied a low-income country, poorer than Read More
Mao’s Great Leap Forward ‘killed 45 million in four years’ – News – Books – The Independent
Speaking at The Independent Woodstock Literary Festival, Frank Dikötter, a Hong Kong-based historian, said he found that during the time that Mao was enforcing the Great Leap Forward in 1958, in an effort to catch up with the economy of the Western world, he was responsible for overseeing “one of the worst catastrophes the world Read More
Ripresa dopo la recessioneObama stracciato da Reagan – Glauco Maggi
“Perche’ Obama ama Reagan”, titolava la copertina della rivista liberal Time nel febbraio del 2011. Era quando Barack sognava di bissare la performance economica del presidente repubblicano, che pure aveva odiato in gioventu’ da studente simpatizzante socialista alla Columbia, dove era arrivato nel 1981 mentre Reagan entrava alla Casa Bianca. L’intento di Time, e del Read More
It’s Income-Tax Day in America. | Mises Institute
It’s Income-Tax Day in America. In The Ethics of Liberty, Rothbard stated the obvious when he wrote: It would be an instructive exercise for the skeptical reader to try to frame a definition of taxation which does not also include theft. Like the robber, the State demands money at the equivalent of gunpoint; if the taxpayer Read More
Government Police “Services” in a Nutshell | Mises Institute
Police justify killings like that of Freddy Gray’s on the grounds that such aggressive tactics are necessary to protect lives and property. But when widespread destruction of property, and threats to life and limb appear, the police are breathtakingly inefficient. Of course, we still know little about the death of Gray because the police refuse to take any responsibility. Read More
Singapore e il capitalismo autoritario | Michele Marsonet
Scarsa l’attenzione prestata dai mass media italiani alla morte di Lee Kuan Yew, padre-padrone della moderna Singapore. Eppure la piccola città-Stato asiatica, collocata all’estremità meridionale della penisola malese ed ex colonia britannica, presenta più motivi d’interesse. Non tanto di per sé ma per come Lee l’ha plasmata a partire dai tardi anni ’50 del secolo Read More
Free-Market Federalism | Acton Institute
James Bruce April 1, 2015 by James Bruce Several years ago, Pete Warden offered an account of seven distinct regions in the United States from an unusual source: Facebook friends. Apparently, when I moved from Texas to Arkansas in 2008, I didn’t change cultures. Sure, I became a resident of Arkansas, with an Arkansas drivers Read More
Why Decentralism? An Exit and a Promising Alternative | Libertarianism.org
David S. D’Amato D’Amato examines the arguments presented by a range of advocates for decentralism in government and the private sector. Starting with my previous column on decentralism, I have been considering the idea of decentralism as it relates to the philosophy of liberty and investigating the practical implications of this connection. Libertarians ought to Read More
Why Mandatory Voting Is a Bad Idea – Reason.com
Toward the end of a speech and Q&A session (about an hour and 10 minutes in) in Cleveland yesterday, President Barack Obama spoke a bit about reforming elections, complaining about money in politics, gerrymandering, and the Citizens United decision. One “short term” solution he floated was to make voting mandatory, holding up Australia as an Read More