Having crunched all the numbers from last week’s budget the Adam Smith Institute concludes that tax freedom day remains at 1st June
This means that the average person will go on spending the first five months of the year working for the state. Only on 1st June will they start to work for themselves. Who said slavery has been abolished?!
Categories: Liberty
This recent story on passport fraud reminded me of just how much I detest the intrusive and bureaucratic nonsense that is all governmental passport and ID card schemes.
Not only should passports never have been introduced in the UK in the middle of the nineteenth century but we must now oppose, at every turn, the government’s plans to introduce ID cards.
While Dr. Sean Gabb wrote this seminal paper against ID cards, it was Adam Chacksfield who argued: Open the Door! The Case for Abolishing All Immigration Controls
On re-reading Chacksfield’s paper I am reminded of the Libertarian vision at the heart of John Lennon’s song Imagine. I particularly like these words in verse two:
Imagine there’s no countries
It isn’t hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace…
You my say I’m a dreamer
But I’m not the only one
I hope someday you’ll join us
And the world will be as one
Categories: Liberty
For Life, Liberty and Property
