KA-POW! #39 - Woods

This week's “Kick-Ass Post O’th’ Week” (KA-POW) goes to Thomas E. Woods, Jr. for “Mises's Vision of the Free Society” :

He [Mises] focuses primarily on the necessity of large-scale social cooperation. This social cooperation, by which complex chains of production function to improve the general standard of living, can be brought about only by an economic system based on private property. Private property in the means of production, coupled with the progressive extension of the division of labor, has helped to free mankind from the horrific afflictions that once confronted the human race: disease, grinding poverty, appalling rates of infant mortality, general squalor and filth, and radical economic insecurity, with people often living one bad harvest away from starvation. Until the market economy illustrated the wealth-creating possibilities of the division of labor, it was taken for granted that these grotesque features of man's condition were the fixed dictates of a cold and merciless nature, and thus unlikely to be substantially alleviated, much less conquered entirely, by human effort.

KA-POW! #22 - Schiff

This week's “Kick-Ass Post O’th’ Week” (KA-POW) goes to Peter Schiff for “Don’t Bet on a Recovery” :

Beyond the question of “how” the spending could be achieved, is the deeper question of “why” such activity should be sought at all. Excessive spending, fueled by an insane housing bubble and catalyzed by reckless monetary and fiscal policy, was the reason that our current recession became unavoidable. Why would we want to go down that road again?

KA-POW! #6 - Staib

This week's “Kick-Ass Post O’th’ Week” (KA-POW) goes to student Eric M. Staib for “Obamacare is a Devastating Tax on the Working Class” :

The implication of this increased cost is that workers [with individual coverage] whose revenue productivity is less than $300 [or nearly $700 for those with family coverage] per month higher than their wages will be laid off, or have their hours cut to the level that will classify them as part-time. Ignoring established labor law, the bill leaves the definition of part-time and full-time to the discretion of the Commissioner of Obama's massive new health bureaucracy. The lower the new "Health Choices Commissioner" sets the threshold in an attempt to maximize the number of people receiving the employer contribution, the more hours of production employers will have to shave off to push their employees under the threshold, and the less those workers will take home in wages each week.

KA-POW! #1 - Rothbard

My inaugural “Kick-Ass Post O’th’ Week” (KA-POW) goes to Murray Rothbard for “Capitalism versus Statism” :

If we are to keep the term "capitalism" at all, then, we must distinguish between "free-market capitalism" on the one hand, and "state capitalism" on the other. The two are as different as day and night in their nature and consequences. Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at. State capitalism consists of one or more groups making use of the coercive apparatus of the government — the State — to accumulate capital for themselves by expropriating the production of others by force and violence.

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