Freedom, Civil Liberty, Personal Responsibility, Privatization

As a libertarian, I know that most problems in society are caused by government, and government usually poses the greatest impediment to people who are willing and able to solve them. The key to happiness and prosperity is to get government OUT.

In the 50’s, before government got involved, doctors made house calls, medical care was affordable to nearly everyone, and miraculous advancements happened regularly. It was the golden age of medicine in America. Now, the system is a byzantine government-contorted behemoth designed to milk doctors, patients, and the taxpayers to benefit enormously wealthy hospitals, insurance companies, and drug companies. Those giant institutions then reward the politicians with big campaign contributions and lucrative jobs for supporting a system that makes it legal and possible for them to bleed the politically weak. The system is beyond criminal. We must end government involvement in health care and allow free market competition to bring back the transparency, quality, affordability, and trust in medical care we once enjoyed.

Government supposedly protecting the environment is tantamount to allowing the fox to guard the hen house. Countries with the most powerful governments experience the worst environmental disasters. When the EPA enacts regulations, it must call on experts to know what to do. The largest chemical and industrial corporations gladly hire and supply swarms of them to attend agency hearings, armed with an endless supply of self-serving multimillion dollar reports. The resulting regulations are most often very expensive to comply with, which only those large companies can afford to do, thereby protecting them from competition and stifling innovation. The regs also give them license to pollute more than enough to keep profits high. The companies then use the enormous profits this system hands them to reward the politicians with big campaign contributions and lucrative jobs, in return for supporting a system that makes it legal and possible for them to overcharge and pollute on the politically weak. The right of the people to bring private and class action lawsuits against these companies for polluting the air we breathe and the water we drink, without having to face the defense that the company is immune for having complied with all the self-serving regulations, must be restored. The proceeds from those lawsuits, including punitive damages, would then go to the people who have been harmed, instead of fines paid to the very government that caused the harm in the first place — a mere cost of doing business to the wealthy corporations.

In addition, it should be noted that poor people who are desperate to survive and feed their children cannot afford to care about the environment. No one cares for the environment more than wealthy people who have to live in it. The wealthier the population, the cleaner the environment. That is why a booming economy is essential to producing a clean and healthy environment.

The same analysis applies over and over, in issue after issue. Government always makes the politically strong wealthier and the politically weak poorer. That’s because large, wealthy companies will gladly funnel money to the politicians for supporting legislation that will make them richer, and partnering with the corporations gives the politicians more power. Government is almost always the problem and almost never the best solution. For those reasons and others too numerous to detail here, we need to bury the concept of the administrative agency in America, once and for all. Administrative agencies are unconstitutional, operate with no accountability, unlike elected officials who at least have to face the voters periodically, and protect the industries they purport to regulate at the expense of the people, in return for kickback campaign contributions and lucrative jobs. The value people expect from them, which is the only reason people accept them and think they need them, can easily be replaced with private institutions, which will actually do the jobs efficiently and effectively.
In the 50’s, one person on a modest salary could earn enough to support a family of 4 or more. Today, two breadwinners are barely or not even enough, and many people forego having children because they can’t afford them. Real family income has fallen dramatically over the decades, and the bilking of the people and destruction of wealth by government is the reason why. Ending the oppressive and unnecessary regulations promulgated by the dizzying swarm of unconstitutional administrative agencies, along with ending inflation and ending the criminally intrusive income tax, will unleash prosperity like the world has never seen. Real income will rise and prices will fall, enabling everyone to afford a clean environment, housing of their choice, proper medical care, and much, much more.

A Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) has been proposed, which would digitize the intrinsically worthless paper printed by government. Not only would this allow the government to continue to inflate the dollar through endless printing, it would also enable it to know where you spend every dime, force you to spend wherever and on whatever it wants you to, and enable it to replace laws and regulations with arbitrary rules simply by cutting off your access to your own money any time they think you don’t look happy or submissive enough to suit them. Instead of pegging a digital currency to the dollar, the dollar should be pegged to a digital currency — one that can never be inflated or controlled, or to gold.

In addition to ending the criminalization of the right to self-defense, I would call for congressional and executive branch investigations into who is behind the apparently coordinated, illegal movement to undermine our democratic institutions to replace them with a totalitarian socialist nightmare. What role, if any, did previous administrations play in developing the COVID virus? Who is responsible for hijacking our criminal justice system to destroy a popularly elected president? Who coerced social media and dozens of other large corporations to circumvent the First Amendment to promote socialist lies and suppress the truth? Who was involved in the systemic compromise of our electoral institutions? These questions go way beyond the justice and fairness due the current president, who has been ruthlessly targeted because he makes the absurd claims of socialist subversives obvious to everyone. The desire and ability to do this to our proud and robust albeit constitutionally vulnerable institutions poses an existential threat to the very core of the American experiment. The perpetrators must be rooted out for their treason and an example made of them to ensure this can NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. They must not be ignored, or they will simply resume their subversion once the pressure is off. Their success would mean the end of democracy, the end of freedom, the end of prosperity, and the end of progress on earth for decades or centuries to come. It might work out great for the few who take power, but it would almost certainly mean the collapse of civilization on a grand scale and mass starvation and death for everyone else. Their rabid program must be exposed and ended permanently if we are to survive and continue to exist as a caring, enlightened society.