Unemployment

To achieve maximum employment, the government must allow the market to take its course. The hunger, ambition and energy of individuals will lead them to employment and the education they need to obtain it. Anything government does to ‘help’ will only increase...

Transport

The motor vehicle is the ultimate tool of the individual. In it we go about our business traveling where and when we see fit. When Malthusian socialists say the automobile ‘encourages urban sprawl’, what they mean is that it encourages the growth of suburbs where...

Tax-funded pensions are wrong

When a portion of wealth is transferred from the person who owns it without his consent and without compensation, and whether by force or by fraud—to anyone who does not own it, then I say that property is violated; that an act of plunder is committed. —Frédéric...

Absconding parents

The duty of parents to children Under the natural law parents owe a duty to their children to nurture, raise and educate them, and bring them healthy, happy, well-loved and well-balanced into adulthood. This applies to biological parents and adoptive parents. It...

Breaking the cycle of chronic poverty

It is the exercise of responsibility which teaches self-discipline. But in the early stages of life it is the experience of authority, when exerted fairly and consistently by adults, which teaches young people how to exercise responsibility themselves. We have to...

The causes of chronic poverty

Chronic poverty is caused by a series of factors that cannot be solved by welfare or public housing. These include: Welfare Welfare is the leading cause of poverty. It operates by trapping people in a life of dependency from which they cannot spur themselves to...