http://delicious.com/inbox/libertarianleft bookmarks sent by others to libertarianleft 2009-10-02T20:49:22Z http://zesterdaily.com/politics/202-candy-corn-and-coke freemanlc "The application of a little basic math reveals an interesting coincidence: The expected revenue from a soda tax and the expected subsidy payments to corn farmers come to almost the same amount--somewhere between $5 billion and $6 billion a year." food corn beverages taxation subsidies agriculture agribusiness statism hfcs sweetners sodapop health obesity politics corporatism state-capitalism 2009-08-31T21:01:09Z http://www.theagitator.com/2009/08/30/wow-21/ freemanlc "So while small companies and independent toy makers are getting socked with costly testing requirements, the big toy company whose screw-ups were responsible for the law, who then lobbied for the law, and who then hired a top Hil staffer away to help with its lobbying efforts, was then able to get itself an exemption from the part of the law that’s going to be most expensive for all of its competitors. And the regulatory agency that granted the exception kept it all quiet." cpsia politics statism regulatory.capture children safety corporatism regulation mattel cpsc 2009-08-31T20:28:20Z http://www.paleonu.com/panu-weblog/2009/7/7/acetaminophen-and-the-war-on-drugs.html freemanlc "Your government is here to protect you from too much fun, even if it kills you." drugwar drugs pharmaceuticals fda acetaminophen tylenol narcotics health liver vicodin toxicity alcohol ethanol denaturedalcohol statism regulation hydrocodone 2009-08-05T18:40:11Z http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/natural-vs-artificial-profit/2009/08/04 freemanlc "I think it is best to distinguish between profits that are natural and those that are artificial. Profits can be natural in the sense that you participate and you get something out of the effort of more value to you then what you put in (like you bring a food dish to a potluck and have a good time and a diversity of food, so a personal profit in enjoyment and variety). Profits can be artificial if you earn your profits by getting others to pay external costs (example: coal plants producing mercury pollution that harms people downwind) or you make profits by rent-seeking involving creating indefinite artificial scarcities of things that would otherwise be naturally abundant (like by using indefinite copyright to make scarce books that are more than twenty years old or whatever length would be reasonable, if any length of copyright is reasonable today)." profit markets economics externalities corporatism subsidies r&d medicine drugs pharmaceuticals rent-seeking scarcity ipr copyright currency money 2009-07-17T17:58:36Z http://www.motherjones.com/special-reports/2009/07/totally-wasted PintofStout "Just who is winning the War on Drugs" A Special Report consisting of several articles. drugs journalism war_on_drugs government anarchism 2009-07-17T17:55:57Z http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/07/we-bring-fear PintofStout There are two Mexicos. There is the one reported by the US press, a place where the Mexican president is fighting a valiant war on drugs, aided by the Mexican Army and the Mérida Initiative, the $1.4 billion in aid the United States has committed to the cause. This Mexico has newspapers, courts, laws, and is seen by the United States government as a sister republic. It does not exist. There is a second Mexico where the war is for drugs, where the police and the military fight for their share of drug profits, where the press is restrained by the murder of reporters and feasts on a steady diet of bribes, and where the line between the government and the drug world has never existed. The reporter lives in this second Mexico. politics journalism Immigration Security drugs corruption mexico Charles_Bowden 2009-07-06T19:36:39Z http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2009-06-04-marine-schools_N.htm freemanlc "The Marines are talking with at least six districts — including in suburban Atlanta, New Orleans and Las Vegas — about opening schools where every student wears a uniform, participates in Junior ROTC and takes military classes, said Bill McHenry, who runs the Junior ROTC program for the Marines." usa schooling education militarism militarization rotc marines 2009-07-02T17:55:53Z http://www.reason.com/blog/show/134537.html freemanlc Corporatist Matthew Yglesias taken to task for his repetition of "The highly ideological behavior of the business community" mythology. Wal-Mart, and other big businesses, love state intervention -- when it suits their interests. It takes willful ignorance and/or disingenuousness to repeat such mythology about "the business community" having any sort of ideological aversion to state intervention. corporatism statism health-care yglesias ideology liberalism walmart rent-seeking regulatory.capture 2009-07-01T16:05:50Z http://www.reason.com/blog/show/134470.html freemanlc "Now you can add another corporate behemoth to the list of supporters of advocating more government involvement in health care: Wal-Mart. Today, the nation's largest retailer released a letter supporting an employer mandate." walmart corporatism health-care competition politics economics rent-seeking statism 2009-06-19T17:58:29Z http://towardsmutualbenefit.blogspot.com/2009/06/gabb-on-carson.html freemanlc Reflections on Sean Gabb's review of Kevin Carson's latest book. libertarianism left-libertarian vulgar.libertarianism language economics corporations trade 2009-06-08T15:30:44Z http://www.miamiherald.com/news/southflorida/story/1086735.html freemanlc "Once again, the state proved to be deadly negligent. " statism children drugs neglect abuse florida psychiatry pharmaceuticals 2009-06-04T00:44:42Z http://mises.org/books/historynot.pdf joelknight A book about revisionism, "Why American History is Not What They Say" by Jeff Riggenbach 2009-06-01T17:39:41Z http://faculty.msb.edu/hasnasj/GTWebSite/MythWeb.htm PintofStout In this Article, I will argue that this is a false dichotomy. Specifically, I intend to establish three points: 1) there is no such thing as a government of law and not people, 2) the belief that there is serves to maintain public support for society's power structure, and 3) the establishment of a truly free society requires the abandonment of the myth of the rule of law. libertarian politics law legal myth anar 2009-05-30T19:09:56Z http://marketurbanism.com/2009/05/04/public-educations-role-in-sprawl-and-exclusion/ freemanlc "In summary, locally-funded public education is an engine of geographical segregation, which encourages flight from urban areas, and was a driving motivation for the popular acceptance of exclusionary zoning in newer suburbs. As a result, wealth is consistently concentrated geographically, and housing affordability is at odds with these restrictions of supply intended to exclude poorer people from draining the property tax base." suburbia sprawl race class schooling zoning statism planning rothbard segregation housing taxation 2009-05-29T17:08:44Z http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbling/2009/05/the-fiscal-crisis-of-the-state.html jeremy6d "I’m reminded of James O’Connor’s The Fiscal Crisis of the State, written in 1973. State spending in a capitalist society, he said, must fulfil two functions: to raise profits, for example by maintaining aggregate demand; and to legitimate the system by ameliorating inequalities. But, he said, these forces for higher spending increased faster than people’s willingness to pay tax. The upshot was a tendency to bigger budget deficits, even in decent economic times." linkblog blogpost marxism biggov't capitalism interventionism central_planning