Imagine you own a business with zero customers. How long will you keep paying your employees to look busy? In the private world, owners of failing businesses quickly change their strategy or shut down to minimize their losses. In contrast, an ineffective government program can operate for decades and cost the taxpayers billions of dollars.
It’s primary season in Pennsylvania. Each spring the Democratic and Republican party machines emerge from their holes to sing about the importance of exercising your right to vote for their preferred candidates. But unlike the spring blossoms, primary elections in Pennsylvania are anything but beautiful.
Primaries in Pennsylvania are “closed” - only voters registered as Democrat or Republican are allowed to vote. What if you don’t like those parties? A 2019 poll from Gallup reveals that about 54% of Americans identify as either a Democrat or Republican and 44% as “independent”. However in PA about 85% of voters are registered D or R, and 16% as something else.
Dear Voters
This coming Tuesday, November 6th we have yet again another opportunity to exercise our right to vote. This is one of the greatest rights that we possess, to choose our leaders to represent us and unite us.
I write with two purposes in mind to inform you, and urge you to get out and JUST VOTE!
For my first blog post on the 2nd amendment I wanted to discuss the basics of pro-2nd amendment argument and the underpinnings of that argument. In order to keep this to a reasonable length, I won’t be going to deep into any particular aspect of the argument, and there is a lot to cover. The totality of the evidence clearly shows that the Framers of the Constitution were of a mind that closely dovetails with, if not outright matches, the Libertarian perspective on the 2nd Amendment, as well as the rest of the Bill of Rights.
I am a Libertarian for one very simple reason. I believe it is wrong to hurt people, and non-aggression lies at the very core of Libertarian philosophy.
Liberals and Conservatives will never say this. They can’t. They both believe that under the right circumstances pertaining to their particular agendas, it’s acceptable to hurt people. Unfortunately, this almost always has unintended consequences.
So many people who find libertarianism unpalatable begin their arguments with something like:
