The writer Michael Kinsley is very intelligent. He is also very glib, and his glibness often gets in the way of his intelligence. The expression "too clever by half" seems to have been coined for him. This is most obvious when he writes about the libertarian philosophy, as he did recently for the Washington Post website.The rest of the latest TGIF, "Those Too-Consistent Libertarians," is at the Foundation for Economic Education website.
Consistent advocates of individual liberty often point out that government restrictions on free immigration violate the rights of people not born in the United States. Not only are they denied their freedom to move and improve their lot in life, but if they make it into the United States, they are subjected to police-state raids and exploitation because their illegal status denies them access to justice.The rest of my latest op-ed, "More Victims of Immigration Control," is at The Future of Freedom Foundation website.While the immigrants themselves bear the brunt of U.S. immigration policy and will suffer even more regardless of who becomes president next year, they are not the only victims. Additional victims are to be found among American citizens.
Mr. Kinsey also fails to note that there are legitimate reasons for wanting to consume unpasteurized milk and milk products. There is a thriving black market in young unpasteurized cheeses in the states. It is not the poor and downtrodden who partake of these unregulated fares, but the rich and sophisticated.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the utility of unpasteurized milk is irrelevent to the morality of banning it...
Definitely. I know so many children of "undocumented citizens" that I really feel for them on a personal level when I hear people talk about the evils of the coming Mexican invasion. Good grief! It hurts me because it hurts them!
ReplyDeleteThank you keeping the drumbeat on the inconsistency of a free enterprise system and our immigration laws. When I hear the Republican candidates speak about Immigration, I just have to shake my head.
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