Feb

20

Antitrust Laws and Regulation: A Boon to Monopolies

February 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Above is a worthy discussion about the anti-consumer / pro big and connected business fraud that is anti-monopoly legislation with Ron Paul. While the video is some 25 years old, the content is perfectly valid today (if not also a testament to the consistency of Ron Paul since then).
A great myth perpetuated by [...]

May

18

Woah! What’s a’ Going On?

May 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I don’t know what this is all about, but Let the Sun Shine in! Go Sibel Edmonds. Go Whistle Blowers!
If anyone knows where I can get this documentary, post it up for everyone’s benefit!

Mar

12

For What are You Waving the American Flag?

March 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

“Paul thinks everyone is born an instinctive libertarian, “wanting to be let alone.” Unfortunately, “the school system beats it out of you.” Paul voted both for the ban on partial-birth abortion (a fetus is alive, leave it alone) and against the ban on same-sex marriage (none of the federal government’s business). He refused to [...]

Mar

4

The Pennsylvania Politburo: Skyrocketing Costs and Secrecy

March 4, 2007 | Leave a Comment

The Pennsylvania Politburo (ok… so officially it is called the General Assembly) is being further exposed being the bloated mess that it really is. The Pittsburgh Trib Review is on top of how the spending for PA politicians to get their work done far exceeds the pace of inflation.
Enablers to this all will [...]

Mar

1

Your Real Tax Rate is 40%. Feel Good?

March 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Yes. You probably think you pay less, but you don’t. Here’s an article on a study that explains why Americans on average pay 40%, give or take about 5%.

Feb

25

Government Monopoly = Poor Health Inspections

February 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment

For some reason Americans have been convinced that their savior comes in the form of Government bearing gifts of regulations and handouts. God forbid, far too many believe, that people were left to sort out their own behaviors through voluntary association. After all, the evil profiteering business owners would as soon poison their patrons [...]

Dec

18

Fat Govt Employee Pensions Hang Taxpayers With Costs

December 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment

We’ve talked about the mess before: Fat government unions trade votes and contributions for pensions and other benefits that are far more generous than anything the private sector can afford to offer, and stick the hapless taxpayers with the costs.
Says the Post Gazette,
“The average pension in the two systems for those at normal retirement [...]

Sep

22

Government Loses Hundreds of Laptops

September 22, 2006 | Leave a Comment

There was a day when the Census Bureau simply did its constitutionally mandated job: counted the number of people in the U.S. But that went out the window with the shift from a liberty based consensual republic to something completely different: a pseudo nanny state run as a collectivist democracy. To hell [...]

May

24

Highways to Nowhere

May 24, 2006 | Leave a Comment

The legislature seems to be balking on finishing the Mon Valley Expressway.  Costs and other priorities are catching up with all the fancy plans made during the 1990s.
Here at the TRP&S, we are no fans of excessive highway building, especially in the face of rising gas prices — a phenomenon that is hardly going to [...]

Apr

17

Gas, Oil and Gold: The tip of the Iceberg

April 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment

The following is posted with permission of the  Vigilant Investor site: 
News headlines today announce yet more reasons to throw the CPI number out the window:

UPDATE 1-Gold hits new 25-yr high over $604, silver surges
Gold storms to new 25-yr high, silver surges
Crude Oil Futures Briefly Touch $70
What U.S. Government Won’t Reveal About Inflation: John Wasik

Of course, [...]

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