I care for kids, families, the sick and the elderly, working class, middle class, and every American. To end poverty and advance the American Dream, I am Libertarian Girl.
Everyone’s been worried about Social Security for a long time and how to make it “sustainable” in the long term. We could cut spending on other programs and try to make a go of it, or we could cut benefits, or just watch the whole thing collapse. Or…
Why not make it means-tested?
Why should rich people [...]
Leave it to Joe the Plumber to explain, essentially, the fundamental problem with many of Obama’s economic plans.
Joe the Plumber is the perfect messenger: he’s not a Wall Street banker or a lawyer or even a doctor. His name is actually Joe, and he provides an important, if un-glamourous, service: plumbing. No one becomes [...]
Note: Libertarian Girl is off to Europe, but while she’s away she’ll be updating with previously written posts about politics and life in the places she’s visiting. She’ll soon be back to her regularly scheduled Libertarian Girl programming.
The Vienna Opera House is beautiful for sure, and it sells out virtually every performance far in advance. [...]
I recently helped a friend find flights he could redeem with Air France miles he’d collected a few years ago, and I was shocked to find that even on a “free” award ticket that he had earned by flying Air France flights, he was expected to pay close to $400 in taxes alone. When I [...]
Westboro Baptist Church is the unspeakably obnoxious group that protests at things like dead soldiers’ funerals (apparently more than 280 of them) and the funerals of college students. Their main gripe seems to be, of all things, homosexuality, and they hold signs saying things like “Thank God for IEDs.”
The disgusting behavior of these people is [...]
What’s the bigger threat to the environment, global warming or Ben Bernanke?
Exactly how many trees will have to be cut down for all the dollars Helicopter Ben’s been ordering lately from his well-used printing press?
* Image courtesy of Don Luskin.
Would the poor prosper better in a libertarian society than they do now? I believe so. Here’s why:
The current system often benefits the rich and special interests, not the poor.
The “War on Drugs” disproportionately places poor people in prison for non-violent crimes, separating families and ruining lives.
The inflation tax is a tax no politician [...]
This is the conclusion of my two-part series discussing why science would be better if it left government funding behind. In the first post, I discussed why government should not be given control of scientists’ work, what government have done when they did have this control, what they will continue to do, and how [...]
“The prospect of domination of the nation’s scholars by federal government project allocation, and the power of money, is ever present, and is gravely to be regarded.” — President Dwight D. Eisenhower
The government should stay out of science completely. Science, scientists, taxpayers, and the world would be better off for it. Research scientists are usually [...]