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North America’s Greece
I’m referring to Puerto Rico, which just defaulted on bond payments. At fault is the same ruinous welfare state system as in Greece. Jacob Hornberger elucidates in this piece. He…
Jacob G. Hornberger
American attorney, politician, author, and three-time Libertarian presidential candidate
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Daring to speak the truth about Greece….
Jacob Hornberger states that the reason why the country is going bankrupt is its welfare state. Read his piece here. Welfarism gradually but inevitably pushes out the productive, entrepreneurial mindset…
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A formerly exceptional nation
America, that is. So argues Jacob Hornberger in this piece. We used to be exceptional in freedom, the rule of law, property rights, sound money, fair administration of justice and…
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Obama behaves like Putin
Vladimir Putin likes to boss people around. So does Barack Obama. In this piece, Jacob Hornberger discusses Obama’s pressure on business people not to attend an economic forum in Russia.…
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There IS a solution to the big money in politics problem
That solution, however, is not to find some regulatory ideal on amounts that can be donated to how many candidates. The solution is to separate the economy and the state,…
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The minimum wage is especially bad for black Americans
In this open letter to the African-American community, Future of Freedom Foundation president Jacob Hornberger patiently explains why the minimum wage is harmful to them, especially by keeping teens from…
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You might be a progressive if….
If you believe that under competition, businesses can drive wages down to almost nothing. In this piece, Jacob Hornberger responds to someone who thought he had a good argument against…
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Why not mandate church attendance?
Jacob Hornberger asks why not, if we accept the premises of statism that people should be compelled to do what is good for themselves and society.
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Progressive income taxation is good for the poor
Well, that is certainly one of the most common tropes of the statists, but Jacob Hornberger ably refutes it in this piece.
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Problems with “Parkland”
There is a new movie out, “Parkland” that purports to show the truth about the Kennedy assassination, or at least a part of it. My friend Jacob Hornberger, who has…
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The debt ceiling is here again
Jacob Hornberger offers some common sense regarding the furor that is about to break over raising the federal debt ceiling.
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Ditch the “War on Poverty”
In his column today, Jacob Hornberger argues, in opposition to a New York Times article by Sheldon Danziger, that we should ditch the war on poverty. To be more precise,…