Unlike The Days Of The Gold Standard,

Modern Economics Is A Set Of Formal Models And Equations Purporting To Fully Determine Human Behaviour, At Least In The Economic Realm. And There Is No Way That Uncertainty Can Be Compressed Into Determinate Mathematical Models.

Monetary Expansion Is A Massive Scheme Of Hidden Redistribution.

Pollution And Overuse Of Resources Stem Directly From The Failure Of Government To Defend Private Property. If Property Rights Were To Be Defended Adequately, We Would Find That Here, As In Other Areas Of Our Economy And Society, Private Enterprise And Modern Technology Would Come Not As A Curse To Mankind But As Its Salvation.

We Must, Therefore, Emphasize That 'we' Are Not The Government; The Government Is Not 'us.' The Government Does Not In Any Accurate Sense 'represent' The Majority Of The People. But, Even If It Did, Even If 70 Percent Of The People Decided To Murder The Remaining 30 Percent, This Would Still Be Murder And Would Not Be Voluntary Suicide On The Part Of The Slaughtered Minority. No Organicist Metaphor, No Irrelevant Bromide That 'we Are All Part Of One Another,' Must Be Permitted To Obscure This Basic Fact.

The Best Way To Help The Poor Is To Slash Taxes And Allow Savings, Investment, And Creation Of Jobs To Proceed Unhampered.