• I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.                                                                            - Thomas Jefferson

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  • "Jobs, jobs, jobs", they say, those politicians. They know that if there are a lot of people out of work they will not get re-elected. And yet they do everything they can to load costs and burdens on to employers. With so few parliamentarians who have ever owned and run a successful business, there is little understanding of what it’s like to start and manage a successful enterprise.
  • Because roads are mostly publicly-owned 'the economics of traffic' -- of traffic-jams, of breakdowns and disruption, of accidents -- is not presented or costed in economic terms. Costs and delays to commuters and to trucks and commercial traffic is not counted in dollar terms. To start with, privatise streets and roads as they were among the first public properties.
  • Policy making is supposedly influenced by scientific evidence. If an outcome of a policy keeps on constantly producing substantial negative results, it stands to reason that policy should be revised according to what the evidence suggests. There is, however, one policy that has led to a continuing disaster decade after decade: the criminalisation of drugs.
  • It is, perhaps, the ultimate contradiction for a supposedly free and democratic society to be founded on a system of compulsory voting. Compulsory voting is a blatant violation of an individual’s right to freedom, voluntary action and free choice, and as such is totally immoral. It should be repealed immediately.

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