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Below you'll find a list of all posts from January, 2011

Politics – A contest for government favours?

The Bahamas Parliament recently debated amendments to the Business Licence Act in an effort to increase revenue as a result …

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The future of learning is at the Mises Institute today

Are you interested in learning economics? The Ludwig von Mises Institute now offers classes online at reasonable rates. Starting January …

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Education + Politics = Illiteracy + Waste

Unfortunately…the failure of public education in both the U. S. and the Bahamas ranks close to jobs and budget deficits …

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The Bahamas National Insurance Board (NIB) raises taxes again

Wallets are a little bit lighter this week as a result of increases in the NIB payroll tax of up …

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How Personal Savings Accounts Would Save Social Security

Dr. Dan Mitchell of the Cato Institute suggests how future generations can be spared a failed Social Security System in …

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Intellectual Property: Silly or Sinister?

Published in The Freeman|Ideas On Liberty January/February 2011 • Vol. 61/Issue 1 and reprinted here with their kind permission. Imagine …

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So, I would argue that the services have been I think disappointing is putting it mildly. They've been disastrous. They've been appallingly bad. Much worse than would have existed, even if no welfare state had been created. In fact I would argue especially if no welfare state had been created, because the systems that existed before were very substantial and growing and improving dramatically. But they weren't perfect, and that is in a way is the great trouble with the development of welfare states. You have a system that's not perfect but actually doing quite a lot of good stuff and then someone comes along and says, "ah, we can make this perfection. And so we can make this much better. We will have free for everybody, high class whatever it is." And the result is you have lower standards and it doesn't work out at all. And that's, the desire for perfection can be very dangerous.James Bartholomew
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