Liberty & Govt. At Work: Dishwashers, Taxes, Malaria, & More

Another must-read from Jeffrey Tucker below.

Three More Attacks on Civilization - Jeffrey A. Tucker: "Most consumers are clueless as to how sometime in the last year, their dishwashers stopped working properly. They call in the repairman, who fiddles with things and announces a fix. But it is not fixed. The glasses are gritty and the plates often need to be rinsed again after washing. Many households have bought new machines or resorted to just running the dishes through twice."

RealClearPolitics - If Washington Is So Great, Let's All Pay for It: "... 45 percent of U.S. households paid not a single dollar in federal income tax for 2010. And The Fiscal Times reported this week that 'for the first time since the Great Depression, households are receiving more income from the government than they are paying the government in taxes.' This, in Obamaland, is called job creation. But does anyone believe the trajectory is healthy? No doubt, these events allow Obama to spread the wealth around to those who deserve it -- clean energy outfits, teachers unions, czars, etc. -- but they also create a growing number of voters with little stake in stopping out-of-control growth."

Watch the Watchmen - John Stossel: "I believe in the right to privacy. Yet I can think of someone who deserves very little privacy -- a policeman making an arrest. Unfortunately, in some states it's a crime to make a video of a policeman doing just that. People recording police have been threatened, detained or arrested. Some were jailed overnight."

Why RyanCare Will Fail - Reason Magazine: "Paul Ryan's budget embraces a fatal premise of the Nanny State ... However, the reason is not GOP economics, but liberal politics that Rep. Ryan has bowed to."

Let’s Err on the Side of Liberty: "In many parts of our lives, as we have yielded liberty, regulators have controlled not just our food, but the size of our showerheads, the water content of our toilets, the light bulbs we are allowed to use, and the car alarms we must cope with, even if they go off incessantly when we look at them cross-eyed."

An estimated $100 million worth of anti-malaria drugs given as aid to Africa have gone missing: "Millions of dollars of donated antimalarial drugs have been stolen, most often by staff of recipient government medical stores; this strengthens criminal gangs and undermines donor intent. The main culprit donor is the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, which worryingly is pushing ahead with further schemes that have the same inherent weaknesses, which may worsen the theft problem."

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