The proposition that economist Ludwig von Mises was a feminist is an apodictic impossibility.
Ilana MercerRon Paul would have demanded that entire departments be shuttered โ not that the bums merely bring into balance what was stolen (taxes) with what is squandered (spending). Besides, what a balanced-budget requirement implies is that government has the constitutional right to spend as much as it takes in โ that government is permitted to waste however much revenue it can extract from wealth producers.
Ilana MercerThe rights to life, liberty and property were not meant to be subject to the vagaries of majority rule.
Ilana MercerOneโs life, liberty and the products of oneโs labor were not intended to be up for grabs by grubby, greedy majorities. Contra classical natural law theory, legal positivism equates justice with the law of the state. However, from the fact that most Americans want others to fund or subsidize their health care, it does not follow that they have such a right. A need is not a right.
Ilana Mercer