All government interference with foreign trade forcibly limits the range of mutually beneficial inter territorial exchanges and thus leads to relative impoverishment at home as well as abroad.
Trade - Hans-Herman Hoppe, 2002
War and the Military
History shows that war is good for government. In wartime, government gains massive power over society. It is granted a degree of latitude in its use of emergency powers that would not otherwise be permitted.War allows politicians and bureaucrats with a passion for power to use it to the hilt, through taxation, inflation and regimentation.
War destroys things and then permits governments to profit from rebuilding them. It drains the private sector of capital and entrepreneurial energy and enriches the parasitical institutions of the State.
No free society stays free after war begins.
- Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., April 13, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]
Foreign Aid
Immigration
End welfare, so that America attracts productive immigrants, rather than people who want to live off the taxpayers. Maintain open borders and a free market--so that America is a haven for people who want to produce in freedom. Government doesn’t work, and a government War on Immigration will be no more successful than the War on Poverty or the War on Drugs.- Harry Browne, May 1, 1996 [Project Vote Smart]
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