Tag: Howard Baetjer
Why your boss isn’t ripping you off. Marxism 101 debunked.
June 27, 2017 | Post
Have you ever thought your employer was exploiting you? That the company you work for doesn’t really earn its profits — it just rips off its workers?
Immigration policy is first and foremost about property rights
May 19, 2017 | Post
Should governments have a blanket right to exclude immigrants?
A Letter to a Minimum Wage Denialist
April 27, 2017 | Post
Dear Ms. Murray, Your article in the Baltimore Sun (“A $15 minimum wage benefits Baltimore business”) almost completely ignores the most important economic argument against minimum wage laws: that they cause unemployment. Young people from awful schools in awful neighborhoods with skills worth only $8 an hour will not be hired at $9 an hour. […]
Should America Kill the $100 Bill?
March 7, 2016 | Post
“Is Now the Time to Kill the $100 Bill?” That’s the title of a Wednesday, February 17 article in the Wall Street Journal, prompted in part by a blog post from former Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence H. Summers.The article states that the Treasury Department has no current plans to eliminate the $100 bill, so […]
Top 5 Reasons to Support Free Speech (of 2015)
December 31, 2015 | Post
This year, Learn Liberty has discussed numerous ways that free speech is under attack and numerous reasons why it should be defended. The ways free speech is under attack are too many to count. They include “microaggressions” and “safe spaces” on college campuses as well as more explicit laws proposed by some activist groups. But […]