Voluntaryists have been calling for the defunding of the police for decades now. This is because we understand that incentives matter. The police will do what you pay them to do. When the State uses government power to incentive the militarization of the police then that is what we will get- police who who see their cities as battlefields and everyone in them as a threat to beaten or killed. If you want to change this you have to change not only the relationship of the police to the government, you have to sever it altogether.
Category: Economics
American Unemployment Increases to 33 Million. What’s Next?
The horrifying trend towards economic collapse caused by state mandated lockdowns continues and the very real threat of mass starvation looms ever closer, and not just for the poorest countries in the world. With estimates suggesting unemployment may rise as high as 34.6% in April we are looking at crippling rates of unemployment never seen before in American, perhaps even world, history. This is worse than the Great Depression, when unemployment rates topped out at 24.6%. The question is where do we go form here?
Covid-19 and The Global Economy
The world economy is collapsing as I write this article. This is not in dispute. The question is, “Why is the economy collapsing?”