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“We free marketeers have won the battle of ideas, but lost the battle of implementation”
Thank the proverbial lord for Daniel Hannan. While the EU continues down the road of socialism, centralization and fiscal insanity, Hannan’s voice in the Summit comes as a beacon of hope for those of us who haven’t lost all sense of individual liberty. Mr. Hannan has gained momentum since calling out British Labour leader Gordon Brown for his abandonment of values as prime minister early last year. Check out his YouTube channel for more:
http://www.youtube.com/user/DanHannanMEP
Methinks Mr. Ron Paul on the other side of the pond could take a few lesson in eloquence from Hannan ;)
^Why Americans don’t need the government telling them what to eat. This graph shows the US federal subsidies for food production over a decade ending in 2005. As we can see, there is a HUGE contrast between what the US federal government recommends and what they subsidise. According to the Federal Nutrition Recommendations, meat and dairy should comprise approximately 25% of our intake. So why do these industries receive a full 75% of subsidies? In stark contrast, we see that fruit and veg only get 0.37% of subsidies!
The lower the subsidies, the higher the pricing as it costs more for the industry to produce. So is it any wonder the US have an obesity problem? The solution is not to tax junk food, it is to ELIMINATE SUBSIDIES and accordingly eliminate price controls. Incentives do a lot more good than penalties.
Now that’s just direct land ownership.
On the land that is not directly owned by the state, people give up ~40% of the product of their labor to the state through taxation or inflation.
Lets be sure to blame the problems we have on the small and shrinking portion that is still free, clamor for more mob rule and call it “democracy” and then say freedom really means free stuff.
