Properal🤘

Respect for property rights is the truce that civilization is built on. Infringing on property rights undermines that truce and endangers peace and prosperity.

[Properal🤘 @properal]

The Federal Reserve, the dollar's reserve currency status, and the petro-dollar system rather than free trade are main contributors to the deindustrialization of the United States.
https://t.co/wGlAaSx7zU

[Mises Caucus @LPMisesCaucus]

Pardon the crypto prisoners:
Ian Freeman
Nevin Shetty
Roman Storm
Roman Sterlingov
Keonne Rodriguez
William Lonergan Hill

Others deserving pardons:
Joe Exotic
Larry Vickers
Jordan Derrick
Kyle Lamar Myers

[Properal🤘 @properal]

Markets “fail” unless they’re optimal. Governments “succeed” unless they’re on fire.
https://t.co/cVHKXNdjYU

[Properal🤘 @properal]

@micsolana @johnkonrad Any claim that USAID saved lives, without accounting for how many people they killed, cannot be taken seriously.
https://t.co/bahLY0OWVN

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Socialism is the fire department saving your house.

Capitalism is the insurance company denying your claim.

[Properal🤘 @properal]

@wil_da_beast630 I would not accept a dinner invitation from them.

[Properal🤘 @properal]

May 27, 2020 Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory report assessed that WIV had conditions for an accidental release of a lab-modified coronavirus as early as 2017

[Properal🤘 @properal]

Visual of Government vs. Private Fire Protection.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

New data, quantifying the frequency of letters in which Karl Marx asked Engels to send him money.

[Properal🤘 @properal]

Go back a few years to see the War on Poverty stopped the decline of poverty.

[Richard Salsman @RichardSalsman3]

The welfare state itself is a fraud. Legalized looting. Few people (including economists) realize that the “poverty rate” is a relative, not absolute measure, calculated arbitrarily as 50% of median income, so when the latter rises, so does the poverty threshold. That’s why no amount of government spending on poverty alleviation can sustainably reduce the poverty rate (aside from the fact that subsidizing a thing causes more of the thing). Most poverty pimps know this math and prefer the relativist measure precisely cuz it’s used to justify perpetual increases in government welfare looting/spending (from which the pimps extract their share). Conservatives aid and abet the fraud.

[Properal🤘 @properal]

The good old days of no poverty.

[Robert P. Murphy @BobMurphyEcon]

@thatdayin1992 This is why everyone was rich before 1700.

[Properal🤘 @properal]

Replace, "OUR DEMOCRACY" with, "THE PARTY" and you will understand what they mean.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

🧵 THREAD: You've heard the phrase "OUR DEMOCRACY" a million times. But what exactly is "OUR DEMOCRACY"? 🤔

When they say "democracy," they don't mean a republic. They don't mean consent of the governed. They don't mean your right to choose your own leaders.

They mean a system where "institutions" - NGOs, multilaterals, the permanent bureaucracy - advance a set of values they consider settled: equality, social justice, cosmopolitanism, global governance. These values aren't proposals to be voted on. They're treated as moral prerequisites that must be true *before* your vote counts.

Despite what they say, they aren't for checks and balances. Checks and balances limit what government can do to you. This limits what you can do to *them*. The brakes are on accountability, not power. The institutions that set the boundaries of acceptable policy have put themselves beyond the reach of the electorate, and they call that arrangement "democracy."

Trump has been an existential threat to this system since the moment he said "drain the swamp" ... because the swamp IS the system. When he threatened those institutions, he didn't threaten the republic. He threatened their immunity from it.

And they said so. On camera. At their own events. In their own words.

As always, patience as I pull together the thread.👇

[Properal🤘 @properal]

@bonchieredstate @MatthewWielicki They want to force Elon to liquidate his stock so he loses control of his companies, and their followers want that as well.

[Properal🤘 @properal]

@MatthewWielicki But that would solve the problem!

[Rafael Ramirez de Alba @RRamirezdeAlba]

Un gran ejemplo del mayor daño de la regulación y la redistribución: todo lo que pudo haber sido creado por algún emprendedor si el Estado no se hubiera interpuesto en nombre de la “justicia social” o de corregir una supuesta "falla del mercado".

Para comprender mejor el argumento, vale la pena leer este libro de @PerBylund 👇

[Properal🤘 @properal]

They’re mad because USAID funded their:
• Propaganda
• Media corruption
• Revolutions & coups
• Wars
• Election interference (foreign & domestic)
https://t.co/XAkEXCd4Kf

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

A curious definition of evil has emerged.

A man who creates companies, products, and wealth is evil because somewhere a child is hungry.

The politicians who spent trillions, the dictators who stole billions, the warlords, the corrupt officials, and the failed institutions are granted a curious exemption.

The hungry child is real enough.

The logic connecting him to a stranger's net worth is somewhat less substantial.

[Properal🤘 @properal]

Socialist policies cause the problems socialists complain about. This doesn't bother them, because they can simply blame capitalism for the problems they cause.

[Rock Chartrand @RockChartrand]

Another great example of assertion replacing explanation.

Rent is expensive because of zoning restrictions, permitting delays, land-use regulations, and supply constraints.

Healthcare is expensive because of decades of government intervention, regulatory barriers, licensing restrictions, insurance distortions, and third-party payment systems.

Food is expensive because of inflation, regulation, supply costs, and monetary policy.

But all of that is ignored in favor of a simpler story:

"A rich person exists, therefore your groceries cost more."

It's not an argument. It's a scapegoat.

[Jeffrey A Tucker @jeffreytucker]

Sometimes I just like to post this ancient image of me and Murray Rothbard.

[Properal🤘 @properal]

@cafreiman @CitizenAmedia But if we loot the banana plantations everyone will be more equal.

[Properal🤘 @properal]

Yep

[paleoneoliberal @armsq17]

While real laissez-faire capitalism has indeed never been really tried, to the extent that it has been implemented, it has been impressively successful.

[Angela McArdle @RealAngelaMc]

All hands on deck for pardons next month! Let's go!!