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Here’s some photos from the tax-day Tea Party held near South Park mall in Moline, Illinois
Moline Tea Party
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Tags: ayn rand, capitalism and freedom, Economy, free market capitalism, freedom, galt, government, Illinois, Moline, Money, prosperity, Quad Cities, socialism, tax increases, taxes, Tea PartyHere’s some photos from the tax-day Tea Party held at 4th and Main in Davenport, Iowa.
Silent No More
Tags: ayn rand, capitalism and freedom, Davenport, Economy, free market capitalism, freedom, galt, government, Iowa, Money, prosperity, Quad Cities, socialism, tax increases, taxes, Tea PartyYou know I’ve never really looked at the spontaneous coordination of free market capitalism.
When you think of all the technology and comforts we have today in this society and how we ended up here based on millions of independent decisions by individuals, who were looking out for their own interests (and thus serving the interests of us all), it is nothing but amazing!
Please read this great column Biased Imagination by Donald J. Boudreaux, chairman of the Department of Economics at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va.
You may end up looking at things differently when someone in Washington claims that they have the answers.
Biased Imagination
Imagine traveling back in time to 1809. You describe to some people you befriend the reality of personal transportation in America in 2009. You describe the automobile.
In your own mind, of course, you’re describing an ordinary contrivance that makes possible experiences that are perfectly ordinary to denizens of the early 21st century, such as zooming along at 70 mph. But to your early 19th-century listeners, you’re describing a barely imaginable wonder.
“What?!” they ask. “People in the future will drive machines made out of metal and filled with highly flammable liquids? Surely that will be intolerably dangerous. And to what purpose? No one has any need to travel at such unheard-of speeds! (more…)
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