Walter Block's Environmentalism

Why Elizabeth Warren Is Stupid

She acts as if "the rich" pay no taxes - but they pay more in personal income, corporate, business, capital gains, property, and sales taxes than "the rest of us." And not only do they pay MORE than their fair share of taxes, but they also benefit society by producing goods the rest of us enjoy. Yet somehow we must punish "the rich?" What a joke.

Ron Paul on Antitrust & Monopoly

Well, I'm taking an "Economic Analysis of Law" class this semester, and I'm pretty sure that we'll be discussing antitrust law at some point. Pretty sure, because I'm a bad student and I haven't really looked at the textbook yet. Ha-ha. Bad student, I know. Anyway... here's what Congressman Ron Paul and Dr. Dominick Armentano have to say about antitrust laws:

Environmentalism in Australia

How is the environazi movement affecting Australia? Not too well, according to our friends at Liberty Australia:

Environmentalist ideology is killing the living standards of the Australian people and it must be rejected.

On housing, land planning regulations done under environmentalist justification, are strangling land availability and causing house prices to skyrocket. There are land release and zoning regulations, land preparation regulations, development and building approvals and additional taxes and building regulations. All of these things have resulted in massive artificial increases to the cost of home ownership. All the government has to do to massively decrease housing prices, is to get out of the way. Stop interfering in the marketplace.

On groceries, the federal government is using your tax-payer money to buy water from farmers, so they can pointlessly put it back into the river and let it flow into the sea. When farmers have less water, they produce less food. When that happens, food prices at the supermarket skyrocket, because supply reduces as demand increases, and we start having to import inferior food products from other countries.


Electricity prices in parts of Australia have increased at nearly four times the rate of inflation over the last 5 years. In Sydney they have risen 61.3%. In Melbourne they have risen 56.8%. In Brisbane they have risen 50.7%.

Australia has abundant sources of energy and yet we are paying more and more for electricity. State and federal governments are to blame. Renewable energy initiatives are hurting families because they push up the price of electricity and electricity generators are afraid to make new investments due to the “regime uncertainty” over a carbon tax, which produces the same effect.

The (now former) Victorian Labor government costed a dam on the Mitchell River at $1.4 billion. Such a dam would have produced a massive amount of water. It then disallowed that option under “green” ideology, and built a desalination plant that, at a minimum, costs $5.7 billion and doesn’t produce as much water.

In the last five years Australian households have had to pay up to 95% more for water bills, despite reducing the volume of water they are using. The price increase is due to government investment in unneeded expensive technologies, like desalination plants.

Read More At la.org.au/opinion/301110/blame-greens-cost-living-crisis

Americans don't have it that bad yet, but it seems like the government is working overtime to get us caught up. I know that John Stossel has made some interesting observations on how the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) has significantly reduced the living standards of all Americans. I'll post those up at some later time.

Economics: No Longer A Science

... But a propaganda tool. Here is a fine example of how special interests can take over a science with "political correctness" and other thought-control techniques. "This textbook, though excellent, only gets a 'C+' because it does not pander to my misguided views!" Seriously, read the reviews. You'll be disgusted.