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Is Viagra a Secret Weapon for Social Security Reform?
A weird headline for a blog post, to be sure, but that’s the implication of this report from Brazil. Older men are marrying young ladies, who then become eligible for decades of government pension...
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Washington Post Calls for Postal Service Privatization!
Do my eyes deceive me? Has you-know-what frozen over? Something strange clearly has happened in the universe, because the Washington Post’s editorial page has published a very sensible piece about the...
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Get Government Out of the Education Business
There’s a controversy in Texas because the State Board of Education has mandated the inclusion of certain materials in textbooks. This has elicited howls of protests from the left, which generally has...
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Budget Deficits Force Local Governments to Do the Right Thing for the Wrong...
There are legitimate reasons for local governments to own land, but surely it doesn’t make sense for them to hold on to surplus acreage. Better to get that land back in private hands, where it will be...
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The Private Sector Always Does a Better Job than Government
Using road management as an example, John Stossel explains that government does a worse job than the private sector, even at things that theoretically are a government responsibility. Part of this is...
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“I Wish Republicans Had a Secret Plan for Personal Accounts”
Here’s my debate on Larry Kudlow’s show about Social Security personal retirement accounts.
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Why Can’t We Copy those Radical Free-Market Canadians and Privatize the Air...
Like most federal agencies, the Federal Aviation Administration is a costly bureaucracy. Its $16.4 billion budget is enormous, but that is just the direct cost borne by taxpayers. The indirect costs,...
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The Case for Social Security Personal Accounts
There are two crises facing Social Security. First the program has a gigantic unfunded liability, largely caused by demographics. Second, the program is a very bad deal for younger workers, making them...
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Article on Bail Bondsmen Suggests New Nickname for the Private Sector: “Is...
Alex Tabarrok has a fascinating article in the Wilson Quarterly about the history of bail bondsmen and their role in this privatized segment of the criminal justice system. Let’s start by excerpting...
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Crikey, Australia’s a Good Role Model
Welcome Instapundit readers. Notwithstanding my next-to-last paragraph full of caveats, some people are saying I’m too soft on the Aussies. This previous post should disabuse people of that notion....
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Privatization Is the Best Response to the FAA’s Deliberate Attempt to...
In an interview with Neil Cavuto earlier this month, I mocked proponents of big government for their hysterical predictions of bad things happening under sequestration. And cartoonists had a field day...
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More Amusing Anti-Libertarian Humor
Do libertarians have a sense of humor? That’s a relevant question because many people think of us as unhappy curmudgeons, or perhaps as dorky Randians. While I think those stereotypes are unfair, I...
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Time for a Free-Market Postal System
It’s not often that I agree with the Washington Post, but a government-run monopoly is not the best way to get mail delivered. Moreover, it’s not often that I agree with the timid (and sometimes...
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What Happens When Libertarian Fantasies Become Reality?
No, this post is not about that kind of fantasy. Instead, we’re dealing strictly with public policy and specifically addressing whether the libertarian agenda is unrealistic. This is because when I...
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Amtrak Needs Privatization, not More Handouts and Subsidies
I almost feel sorry for my leftist friends. Whenever there’s a story about a crazed shooter, they invariably speculate that it’s someone affiliated with the Tea Party. So they must be sad when it turns...
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Clever Video Mocking Privatization, but the Free Market Got the Last Laugh
My favorite anti-libertarian video is the one based on the notion that Somalia is a libertarian paradise. Since no libertarian has ever pointed to that country as a role model, the underlying premise...
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A Libertarian Paradise in…Nigeria?!?
Whenever someone accuses me of being too dogmatically opposed to government, I tell them that I only got 94 out of 160 possible points when I took Professor Bryan Caplan’s Libertarian Purity Quiz....
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A Libertarian Paradise in…Mexico?
I’m sometimes accused of being too radical, though I take that as a compliment (including the time a British journalist wrote that I was “a high priest of light tax, small state libertarianism”). In...
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To Improve Transportation, More Private Sector or More Federal Involvement?
There are some remarkable stories of the private sector showing initiative when governments fail to maintain infrastructure. In response to dithering by government, residents and businesses in Hawaii...
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The Libertarian Paradise of…South Africa?
You can find examples of libertarianism in some very unexpected places. Mexico Nigeria Somalia Germany Argentina What’s particularly interesting are the examples of how private governance is evolving...
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