Noose continues to tighten, but no government or empire lasts forever
People drop mail off at the Hixson branch of the U.S. Postal Service, a legal monopoly that in September hit its F$15 billion borrowing limit from Uncle’s treasury department. To argue against such coercive state monopolies is to enter into the perspective of ”voluntaryism,” a helpful framework for viewing liberty. By Carl Watner, Voluntaryist.com Voluntaryists have […]
Centralization reaches peak, faces irreversible breakup
“Centralization induces apoplexy at the center and paralysis at the extremities.” — Lamenais By Gary North Teapartyeconomist The present political system is clearly insane. It suffers from schizophrenia. Around the world, almost no one trusts the politicians, yet almost everyone votes for incumbent politicians who promise to reform the government. Voters now suspect (correctly) that […]
Econ lesson No. 2: Centralization destroys opportunity, prosperity, risk
The eye at the top of the pyramid tells of Uncle; in his world, relationships are vertical and most of us are at the bottom. In a decentralized society under God’s blessing, horizontal relationships among equals (more or less) are more common. By David Tulis A handy way to perceive the free market and local […]
Nehemiah, a model official, relies on local economy, refuses to tax
By David Tulis A favorite character in the scriptures is Nehemiah, the Israelite who was cupbearer to an alien king, Artaxerxes, and sent back to his home country to look after Jerusalem and the deplorable state of those of his fellows left behind. As our family has read about Nehemiah at family worship, I have […]
Free market Sherman tanks will outflank clumsy Tigers of Gig city
A wrecked Sherman tank, left, sits next to a knocked out Tiger tank south of Florence, Italy, in 1944. The Tiger was much more powerful than the American Sherman, but the Germans didn’t make enough of them. By Richard Franklin In grade school we were taught that the “New Deal” and the public works programs […]
City enforces Bible law vs. theft, but will abolish office as antiquated
A scale at Bi-Lo lets shoppers estimate prices on produce before they are weighed on the cash register scale. By David Tulis For probably more than 100 years Chattanooga city government has had an office called sealer, whose duty is to enforce honest weights and measures. “The table of weights and measures provided by law […]
A provisional Panera Posse book list: several guys’ 3 favorite titles
Dads gather every Friday morning at the Panera in Hixson, chasing down bad ideas and arming themselves for spiritual and intellectual service. From left are James Hindman, Chris Davis, John Kozlowski, Andrew Huffman and Phil Dake, a homeschool dad who works in the insurance field. The book in the foreground is “Dissenting Electorate.” The home […]
How free market concept of ‘open platform’ could revitalize our paper
Liberating the creative people on its second-floor newsroom could give the Times Free Press new vibrancy as the newspaper industry is menaced by the empowering media freedom of the Internet. January 10, 2012, newsroom Jason Taylor, President, Chattanooga Publishing Co. Dear Jason, The arguments for transforming Chattanooga Publishing […]