By Ocean on Nov 10, 2009 in Articles, Featured | 0 Comments
Since we declared that this is a good financial crisis, we’re glad to hear of others that are finding it to be the same, mostly by taking a pro-active stance. As Craig Barrett states: “You can’t save your way out of a recession; you have to invest your way out”.
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By Ocean on Nov 5, 2009 in Articles, Featured | 3 Comments
As Libertarian Free-marketers, it should come as no surprise that we believe drugs should be decriminalized. In fact, throw all of our free market ideals out of the window and we’d still be clamoring for decriminalization, if not legalization. Since the “War on drugs” in the United States has yielded no tangible results, [...]
By Ocean on Nov 3, 2009 in Articles, Featured, Taxes | 0 Comments
A recent article in the Economist sheds light on the proposed taxes on Junk food. As free market enthusiasts, we have problems with sin taxes in general. On the other hand, we don’t believe junk food even falls under that status.
Sin taxes, or Pigouvian taxes, are taxes levied on certain goods and activities [...]
