*** July 2012 low content thread ***

How Times Have Changed by Walter Williams

This is why we all like Walter Williams:

It’s a while from the last free banking/full reserves-fight, so…

http://www.freebanking.org/2012/07/17/banknotes-are-not-and-have-never-pretended-to-be-warehouse-receipts/

Games turn London into ‘ghost town’

Electricity grids fail across half of India

India’s Power Grid Fails for 2nd Day; 600 Million without Power

FACT CHECK: Romney on Polish economy, gov’t role

Texas GOP chooses tea party-backed Cruz for Senate

Gore Vidal, celebrated author, playwright, dies

Extremism normalized

Mitt Romney Olympic Archive Still Off-Limits

NYPD ‘consistently violated basic rights’ during Occupy protests – study

Resetting the Campaign Agenda

Go for the Gold! (Pay the IRS.)

@gotlucky: Those are the kind of tax issues we need to really focus the debate on. They seem small but that’s precisely why they are the perfect wedge issues. Taxing spectacular achievements. Taxing gifts (which are really charitable donations). Taxing death. These are all forms of tax that are unfair and odious even on the twisted logic of the State. And we need to always keep that out front that this is reprehensible on their own logic.

Of course, we maintain that taxation is immoral, period. But even on their own perverted way of thinking, these kinds of taxation are horrendous. Making a kid pay back a third of Olympic prize money?? This is how you keep society fair???

Clayton -

Making a kid pay back a third of Olympic prize money?? This is how you keep society fair???

Well, you know, “she didn’t earn that.”

@That Old Guy: Oh yeah, I forgot… she drove on roads.

Lmao. We have a new comedy act. You know, that’s kind of what we are missing. We need a new George Carlin. He may not have been anti-state the way we are, but he was one of those fire-in-the-belly anti-state types Rothbard liked. Libertarianism really needs someone like that. Humor, well good humor, goes a long way.

Well, I don’t know if he’s libertarian (he’s said he doesn’t “get” politics), but Louis CK goes on a roll here. This is especially reminiscent of Jeffrey Tucker’s It’s a Jetsons World:

I drew inspiration for my valedictorian speech from him. But I had already heard/thought of the argument before seeing him.

From whom? Tucker or Louie-Louie-Louie-LouWah?

LCK