An “Austrian” Agenda for Post-Coronavirus Recovery

"Conservatives and Republicans had long ago given up any intent or willingness, other than in some of their traditional campaign rhetoric, to cut down government spending to any more manageable size, let alone propose any reductions or repeals in government activities and redistributions. They gave up that fight long ago to try to stay in power by simply being Democrats “light.”

The “progressives” and the out-of-the-closet “democratic” socialists in or affiliated with the Democratic Party have been salivating with anticipation to regain the White House and the Senate in 2020, while retaining control of the House of Representatives, to finally and more fully implement their dreams of national and global central planning for fighting global warming and climate change in general. With no consideration of costs or where the money and resources would come from – other than from “the rich” – they wanted an explosion of domestic government spending on every dreamed of item in the grab bag of welfare statism. ...

The “enemy” in our case is not a “them,” but the “us.” Only by facing, challenging, and defeating the ideas of collectivism, welfare statism, and the political paternalism of governmental planning with which too many Americans have become intellectually and culturally “infected,” is there a way back to the prosperity that we can have.

The collectivism virus need not destroy us, if we immunize ourselves with the philosophy of liberty and market liberalism. What we need is herd immunity, but that requires as many of us as possible to spread the ideas of freedom to as many of our fellow citizens as is possible."

An “Austrian” Agenda for Post-Coronavirus Recovery

 

You disagree with free market capitalism as the column discusses, church mouse guy?