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<content:encoded><![CDATA[“He’s a lost ball in tall weeds.”-Congressman Thomas Massie on Speaker Mike Johnson
In a recent episode of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cd1NPoByGs">Kibbe on Liberty</a>, libertarian firebrand Matt Kibbe sat down with fellow liberty champion Congressman Thomas Massie (R-KY), focusing exclusively on the controversies surrounding current (and hopefully soon to be ousted) Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA). The interview opens with Kibbe giving a summary of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic literary folktale “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” a story in which a vain emperor is fooled by con men into thinking that they have woven him a new, lavish outfit that happens to be invisible. In quick summation, the Emperor flaunts his “clothes” in front of his subjects, most of whom are afraid to admit the truth concerning his appearance, until a child finally blurts out that the Emperor has no clothes. However, this does not phase the Emperor, and he continues to parade himself to his subjects unperturbed.
After finishing his summary, Kibbe analogizes the story to the ongoing fiasco that is Mike Johnson’s tenure as Speaker of the House. Kibbe, a veteran political junkie, remarks that the situation, along with the rampant growth of the size and scope of the state under Johnson’s Speakership, is unique to any that he has witnessed in American politics: 
“I’ve never seen anything like this before, and I am a recovering Republican. I’ve expected nothing from Republicans for a long time, and they’ve sort of proven that. But this run of big government, big spending, pro-deep state spying on Americans run that you guys have had, I’ve never seen anything like it.” 
From there, Massie concurs with Kibbe’s analogy, reflecting (precisely) on Johnson’s ineptitude concerning his position: 
“I think the parable is frighteningly accurate or germane to what’s going on here. The Speaker has no situational awareness or self-awareness, and he can only get away with that because the people around him are pretending, as you might say, that he has clothes. The analogy here might be that he’s conservative, or that he’s supporting our principles.” 
Later, Kibbe elaborates further on Massie’s attempt to vacate Johnson’s chair was being inhibited by a surprising individual: House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). After a Freudian slip in which Kibbe accidentally calls Jeffries a Republican, he admits that it is hard to tell the difference between the GOP and the Democrats anymore. Massie, effectively revealing the nature of the Uniparty in Washington, remarks on the bizarre relationship between Johnson and the Democrat leadership in the House:
“Ostensibly, [Jeffries] should be Mike Johnson’s mortal enemy. It’s the general for the Republicans, and the general for the Democrats, and their general just endorsed our general.” 
Deeper into the interview, Massie continues to detail the unholy alliance between Johnson and the Democrats while airing three specific grievances that he has regarding Johnson’s role as House Speaker: <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4593903-rand-paul-blasts-johnson-for-going-against-fisa-amendment-he-hasnt-held-his-ground/">his tying vote that allowed FISA to be reauthorized without an amendment requiring a warrant for spying on US citizens</a>, <a href="https://rollcall.com/2024/03/22/house-passes-sweeping-fiscal-2024-spending-package/">his support of a $1.2 trillion omnibus bill that included, among other things, $200 million for a new FBI headquarters to be constructed</a>, and <a href="https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-israel-gaza-aid-speaker-johnson-9097da3511a7cd9b0e9a7b9ce52141b3">his push behind a $95 billion bill package that included foreign aid for Ukraine and Israel</a>.
Witnessing firsthand such egregious spending that would cause any Swamp Creature to salivate, Massie and two other members of the House Rules Committee confronted Johnson before the vote for the Ukraine funding bill, alerting him that they would not be supporting it. This would have effectively stalled the bill from getting past the Committee. However, Johnson circumvented their efforts by convincing every Democrat on the Committee to align themselves with him, vote for his rules, and send the bill to a vote on the House floor. Once there, the Speaker was able to garner support from a majority of Democrats to facilitate Ukraine funding. Massie claimed that in his 12-year congressional career, he had never witnessed anything like this blatant act of toxic bipartisanship:
“What Mike Johnson has devolved into, and what became painfully obvious last week, is that we have this sharing of power, not about policy, but about procedure. Instead of Mike Johnson relying [on] Republicans to give him the power to bring bills to the floor, he relied on Democrats. So they get to now determine what bills come to the floor, which amendments are allowed on that bill, when they will come to the floor, how much time will be given for debate…all of those things that are reserved for the majority are now being shared with the minority by Mike Johnson.”
Circling back to Minority Leader Jeffries, Massie unveiled the most horrifying aspect of this coalition government that Mike Johnson created, which is that the Democrat leadership in the House will throw their full, unwavering support behind him against any opposition that Republicans would bring against him: 
“…Hakeem Jeffries said that if Majorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie and Paul Gosar call up the motion to vacate, we will vote to table it. We will save Speaker Johnson. Why in the world would Speaker Johnson’s foe vote to keep him in power? Why would he save him? Because he got everything he wanted.”
Unfortunately, almost a week after this interview aired, <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-stops-effort-boot-speaker-114359852.html">the attempt to oust Johnson failed, as the chamber tabled the motion to vacate the chair</a>. The vote to table, called by Majority Leader Steve Scalise, had a roll call of 359-43, with a mere 11 Republicans voting against the motion. While we can still cling to hope regarding Massie and his allies in Congress eventually forcing another vote to vacate, for now, we can only watch as the weeds grow taller and the ball rolls further into the patch.
Watch the full interview here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cd1NPoByGs"><span style="font-weight: 400;" data-rich-links="{"fple-t":"The Speaker Has No Clothes | Guest: Rep. Thomas Massie | Ep 277","fple-u":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Cd1NPoByGs","fple-mt":null,"type":"first-party-link"}">The Speaker Has No Clothes | Guest: Rep. Thomas Massie | Ep 277</a>
This article was written by Eric Madden, Copywriter & Editor at Young Americans for Liberty
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dylan Oliver]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 May 2024 18:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[  The Student Rights Campaign (SRC) has been waging arguably its most important battle in its ongoing mission to defend the Constitutional rights of students nationwide: the fight for Constitutional […]
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter wp-image-16097" src="https://yaliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Gun-Rights-bitches-300x166.png" alt="" width="600" height="333" srcset="https://yaliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Gun-Rights-bitches-300x166.png 300w, https://yaliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Gun-Rights-bitches.png 512w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" />
 
The Student Rights Campaign (SRC) has been waging arguably its most important battle in its ongoing mission to defend the Constitutional rights of students nationwide: the fight for Constitutional carry on campus in South Dakota. 
 
The campaign, which has been in operation for over two years, was initiated by SRC’s former South Dakota State Chair and current Midwest Grassroots Director Anton Mirzayants on the campus of the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (SDM) in response to the increase in violent crime around campus that left students feeling vulnerable. 
 
From there, the battle for campus carry progressed quickly, with Young Americans for Liberty’s (YAL) SDM chapter hosting a rally in support of allowing students to legally possess firearms for self-defense. 
 
However, the school administration refused to acquiesce and continued to prohibit students’ natural right to defend themselves. 
 
In response, SRC purchased advertising space on a nearby billboard depicting the school’s president, Jim Rankin. The billboard also included a call to action encouraging onlookers to contact the school to demand campus carry become policy. 
 
After garnering an answer from President Rankin, SRC was contacted by the South Dakota Board of Regents, which claimed that the policy does not have enough student support to enact. Refusing to waiver, SRC decided to expand its campaign statewide in South Dakota and target more schools for support, eventually gathering over 757 signatures on its petition. 
 
The most dramatic part of the campaign came when an October 2023 meeting of the Board of Regents in Rapid City, South Dakota was peacefully stormed by YAL activists, who proceeded to pass around flyers displaying the frightening crime rate near the school and demonstrating the need for student Second Amendment access. This move was considered a pivotal moment which effectively revived the battle for campus carry in South Dakota.
 
SRC is currently working to place the issue on the voting schedule of the Board of Regents and refuses to yield until the right to self-defense is protected on college campuses in South Dakota. 
 
Students in South Dakota can support SRC’s campaign here: <a href="https://yaliberty.org/defendsd">https://yaliberty.org/defendsd</a>
 
This article was written by Eric Madden, Copywriter & Editor at Young Americans for Liberty
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dylan Oliver]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:19:09 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Student Rights Campaign (SRC) is having an extremely successful year in 2024.   Following an amazing win for free speech in California, SRC has scored a victory for the […]
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15468" src="https://yaliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/UTK-26-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" srcset="https://yaliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/UTK-26-300x225.jpg 300w, https://yaliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/UTK-26-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://yaliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/UTK-26-768x576.jpg 768w, https://yaliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/UTK-26-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://yaliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/UTK-26-600x450.jpg 600w, https://yaliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/UTK-26.jpg 2000w" sizes="(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" />
The Student Rights Campaign (SRC) is having an extremely successful year in 2024. 
 
Following an amazing win for free speech in California, SRC has scored a victory for the right to self-defense for students on college campuses in Tennessee. 
 
<a href="https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/default.aspx?BillNumber=HB1909&GA=113">HB 1909</a>, introduced to the Tennessee House of Representatives by Rep. Gino Bulso and co-sponsored by Hazlitt Coalition members Rep. Kip Capley and Rep. Elaine Davis, specified that “it is not a criminal offense for an adult person to carry or possess pepper spray, a taser, or another similar device for purposes of self-defense when on property owned, operated, or in use by any college or university board of trustees, regents, or directors for the administration of any public or private educational institution,” further adding that it “prohibits the adoption of a policy by a college, university, or other educational institution prohibiting an adult person” from carrying any of the weapons identified for the purposes of self-defense.
 
Introduced in January, the bill was deliberated for months, finally being signed into law by Governor Bill Lee on April 23. 
 
This policy win resulted from a long fight conducted by SRC, having initiated its campaign for student self-defense rights on October 26, 2022, lasting one year and five months. 839 petitions were delivered and 624 calls were made to Tennessee legislators during its entirety. 
 
Once again, SRC has proven its efficacy and dedication to defending liberty on college campuses nationwide. 
 
Since 2021, we have restored the rights to 2,529,363 students nationwide and changed 176 campus policies. 
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With this successful campaign notched into its belt, SRC continues steadfast in its mission, currently conducting other fights for the constitutional rights of students in America. 
 
This article was written by Eric Madden, Copywriter & Editor at Young Americans for Liberty
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<title>Shots Fired!: The Spike Cohen-David Hogg Gun Rights Debate</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peyton Hornberger]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:13:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Dartmouth Political Union recently hosted a debate entitled “Guns in America: An Expert Debate on Gun Control,” in which former Libertarian Party Vice Presidential candidate Spike Cohen squared off […]
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Dartmouth Political Union recently hosted a debate entitled “Guns in America: An Expert Debate on Gun Control,” in which former Libertarian Party Vice Presidential candidate Spike Cohen squared off against notorious gun control advocate David Hogg. As with most debates regarding gun rights, the focus primarily dealt with various statistics involving firearms and homicides, interpretations of the Second Amendment as understood by the founders, and how civil liberties and the right to self-defense factored into the discussion.
 
As the debate opened, David Hogg, attempting to appear nuanced, framed his position as “not solely about addressing how someone gets a gun,” but also “why somebody feels the need to kill somebody else, which I think most of us in this room actually agree on.” He elaborated further in his opening remarks concerning his view on natural rights and how they relate to law and order in society:
 
“…I’ll acknowledge that no law is perfect by any means, but there’s still the need to have them in a society with order, and that applies to guns as well…No right is unlimited, there’s a reason that you can’t scream ‘fire’ in a crowded theater. But that also means that we have to address, as I said, why somebody picks up a gun.”
 
When it came time for Spike Cohen’s opening statement, it was immediately transparent that he came locked and loaded with data to refute the ridiculous notion that more guns in a specific area lead to more murders being committed: 
 
“I’m happy to be here in Hanover, New Hampshire, where it is… the easiest place in the country, to get a firearm. It has the least firearms restrictions of any state in the Union. It also happens to have the lowest homicide rate, and it’s not alone. The other states that also have permitless carry and some of the loosest restrictions on firearms ownership are the neighboring states of Vermont and Maine. Those are the three lowest homicide rates in the country. Their rates are actually comparable to Europe.”
 
When the debate drifted into focusing on the participants’ respective interpretations of the Second Amendment, the divide could not be any more obvious. Hogg’s understanding of the Founders’ intent regarding the “well-regulated militia” clause was something akin to a massive police state in which every residence that housed legally purchased firearms would be subject to Orwellian surveillance:
 
“Every 18 to 45-year-old man, white men in particular, in the United States, would be required or either provided an M16, and the Federal government would be allowed to come into their house and ensure without a warrant that you actually have that firearm in the first place.” 
 
Cohen, on the other hand, cited the author of the Second Amendment’s actual intent directly: 
 
“The writer of the Second Amendment was very clear: This is confirming a pre-existing individual, natural right for you to keep and bear arms, and he’s explicitly mentioning the fact that you should be able to do that if necessary to rise up against your own government.” 
 
He then went on to refute Hogg’s notion that federal oversight of firearm ownership had anything to do with the Founders’ worldview:
 
“I don’t know of any Founders who indicated that they were mandating the use of firearms or the ownership of firearms.” 
 
As the debate progressed, Hogg made an assertion that there is “one common theme” to all of the arguments Cohen was presenting which is “selling more guns.” In response, Cohen delivered what was arguably his best remark during the entire course of the discussion to thunderous applause: 
 
“You are probably the single greatest salesperson for guns.”
 
However, perhaps the greatest moment of the debate occurred during the Q&A portion when Chinese-American and congressional candidate Lily Tang Williams came to the microphone with a question addressed to Hogg. Citing her experience and survival under communism, as well as Mao’s Cultural Revolution and Great Leap Forward’s killing of millions of people, Williams asked the following:
 
“So my question to you, David, is that can you guarantee me, a gun owner, tonight, that our government in the US, in DC, will never, never become a tyrannical government? Can you guarantee that to me?”
 
When Hogg conceded that there was “no way I can ever guarantee that any government will not be tyrannical,” Williams’s response stole the show:
 
“Well then, the debate on gun control is over because I will never give up my guns, never, never, and you should go to China to see how gun control works for dictatorship.” 
 
Williams’s remarks concretely demonstrate the skepticism everyone should have regarding government, and that it is our responsibility as citizens to remain vigilant toward the ever-present threat of tyranny. We can only guarantee a free society by protecting the right to own a firearm for self-defense. To quote Thomas Jefferson: 
 
“And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” 
Watch the entire debate here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x763ahtuKe8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x763ahtuKe8</a>
Eric Madden, Copywriter & Editor
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<title>Empowering Education on Texas Time: The Battle for School Choice in the Lone Star State</title>
<link>https://yaliberty.org/the-battle-for-school-choice/</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peyton Hornberger]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[While most news junkies will have their attention drawn to the Presidential election this year, those who follow local politics in the state of Texas will be focusing on a […]
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[While most news junkies will have their attention drawn to the Presidential election this year, those who follow local politics in the state of Texas will be focusing on a policy fight that is no less, if not more so, controversial: school choice. 
 
Fresh off the heels of <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/06/texas-primaries-vouchers-school-choice/">the recent GOP primary</a> in which school choice supporters achieved significant victory, many voters and politicians have voiced their opinions regarding the results, either in praise or lamentation. 
 
Chief among those celebrating the victory is Texas Governor Greg Abbott, whose support for school choice remains questionable given his promotion of <a href="https://legiscan.com/TX/text/SB8/id/2773450#:~:text=Texas%20Senate%20Bill%208&text=Bill%20Title%3A%20Relating%20to%20public,an%20education%20savings%20account%20program.&text=By%3A%20Creighton%2C%20et%20al.&text=establishment%20of%20an%20education%20savings%20account%20program.,-BE%20IT%20ENACTED">mediocre legislation</a> that does not allow for universal access. However, to keep up appearances, he <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-highlights-growing-support-for-school-choice-at-texas-policy-summit">remarked at a recent event</a> that “we are on the brink of giving Texas parents what they have been asking for: school choice.” He continued elaborating on the support that Texas voters have put forward for the policy as of late:
 
“A resounding number of Texans support educational freedom for every Texas family because they know that no child should be trapped in a failing school just because of their zip code. This next legislative session will be known as the school choice session, where we finally pass a much-needed law to ensure that every Texas parent has the right to choose the best educational pathway for their child.”
 
In concurrence, Mandy Drogin, a campaign director at the prominent conservative think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation, <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/06/texas-primaries-vouchers-school-choice/">stated</a> that Texas “is closer than ever to delivering on the promise that every parent be in control of their child’s education,” and that empowering parents “with more and better educational options will continue to be one of the top issues in Texas until it gets passed.”
 
Indeed, with two primary elections heading to a runoff scheduled for May 28, Abbott may gain the necessary 76 votes to pass some form of school choice at the next legislative session in Texas, watered down as it may be. However, some within the Lone Star State do not share the enthusiasm the Governor and his supporters exhibited regarding the possibility of the contentious policy becoming law. 
 
Kate Johanns, a spokesperson for the Association of Texas Professional Educators, <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/06/texas-primaries-vouchers-school-choice/">has decried</a> that out-of-state donors and groups “have colluded with state leadership to defame and punish honorable public servants from their own party who went to Austin to vote their districts and their consciences,” but reassures that opponents of the legislation are “disheartened but not dissuaded. Our state’s 5.4 million public schoolchildren deserve better from the leaders of Texas, and we’ll continue fighting for them.”
 
Opponents of school choice have often <a href="https://stateline.org/2024/03/25/school-voucher-proponents-spend-big-to-overcome-rural-resistance/">opened their arguments with emotional appeals</a>, painting vivid pictures of rural life relying on sporting events, club programs, and other aspects of public schools to provide a necessary sense of community contingent on their continued existence. This is usually followed with claims that public schools are “barely scraping by on lean operating budgets,” which rely “on their local representatives in the Republican-led state legislature to fend off school voucher programs.” These very representatives, claiming that their constituents are satisfied with their local public schools, also make the contradictory argument that transferable funding for education will eviscerate these same schools that they claim their voters unequivocally support.
 
Texas Tech University professor Alexander William Salter, <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/education/4501043-school-choice-is-on-the-gop-primary-ballot-in-texas/">writing for The Hill</a>, was quick to point out the flaw in their logic:
 
“Of course, these arguments can’t both be true. If parents are happy with their schools — and in rural districts, it seems they are — then they won’t take their funding elsewhere. It’s illogical to argue that no one wants education freedom and also that giving people education freedom will result in drastic change.”
 
In states where school choice has been enacted, parents are allotted a set amount of funds, usually in the form of a voucher program or an education savings account, from which they can utilize the funds and choose how they facilitate their children’s education. Under a universal school choice model, this could come in the form of paying for private/religious school tuition, moving their child to another school within the public system, tutoring programs, or instructional materials that parents would not be able to afford without access to the funding that they are forced to pay to the state via taxation. This is opposed to more incremental school choice policies that limit the options for how the money is spent, which, unfortunately, has been the type of legislation Abbott has pushed in recent years. In essence, under the universal model, parents would be free to use their education tax dollars however they see fit for the benefit of their children, which would also include the option to keep them enrolled in a public school they already attend.
 
Professor Salter sees this policy as a remedy for many parents, specifically those who live in cities, who feel that the public school system as it stands is failing their children:
“The benefits of school choice are greatest in failing urban districts, especially those with large minority populations. These students, often struggling due to socioeconomic disadvantage, also suffer through inadequate schooling that doesn’t prepare them for the rigors of the modern job market. We have <a href="https://www.statesman.com/story/opinion/columns/guest/2023/01/23/opinion-the-results-are-in-school-choice-works/69820239007/">mountains of evidence</a> showing that school choice improves educational outcomes such as test scores and graduation rates. Other measures — such as parental satisfaction, civic participation and costs to taxpayers — also improve. School choice can be the solution for these students, finally delivering true equality of opportunity.”
 
Texas parents may receive access to transferable funding for their children’s education if the May primary runoffs yield success for Abbott’s school choice coalition. However, given that Abbott’s support of school choice is ultimately disingenuous, it is up to constituents to hold their elected officials accountable to ensure they live up to the promises of their campaigns. 
Eric Madden, Copywriter & Editor
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<title>Sick of Socialized Medicine: Why the Free Market is the Remedy for American Healthcare</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[In its way, the state is akin to a virus: it does everything it can to infect an industry in the private sector. It bogs it down with regulations, taxes, and bureaucracy, decreasing competition and raising prices until the contagion eventually spreads to another industry to wreak similar havoc on the health of the market. In particular, there is an industry that unfortunately is not immune to this infection, with an exhibition of much more pronounced symptoms: healthcare.
 
The debate over state intervention in healthcare in the United States has raged for decades at this juncture, usually over how much is necessary. Democrats and Republicans seem to desire to keep the state involved, with the degree of involvement being the primary point of contention between the two parties. The option that never seems to be on the table is allowing healthcare to be turned over entirely to the free market and eliminating the state from the equation. This alternative is dismissed with various emotional appeals, usually involving Medicaid access for senior citizens and accusations that those seeking a market solution wish for the elderly to get sick and die. Consequently, the conversation never reaches beyond baseless fallacies, and the details of a non-interventionist market for health are never fully explored.
 
But hasn’t the free market already failed to provide economical healthcare costs? Hasn’t the greed of capitalists in the industry driven up the prices that patients can barely afford? Despite popular misconceptions, the healthcare industry has been politicized (i.e., socialized) for over a century, meaning that the current debate is prefaced by a grievous strawman argument that supporters of central planning have egregiously exploited to legitimize their incoherent position. Kel Kelly of the <a href="https://mises.org/mises-daily/myth-free-market-healthcare#note1">Mises Daily</a> lays out the true history of government intervention in American medicine:
 
“To start with, the American Medical Association (AMA) has had a government-granted monopoly on the healthcare system for over 100 years. It has intentionally restricted the number of doctors allowed to practice medicine so as to raise physician incomes artificially. The primary way it does this is by using the coercive power of the state to restrict the number of approved medical schools in operation. After the AMA created its Council on Medical Education in 1904, state medical boards complied with the AMA’s recommendation to close down medical schools.”
 
Perennial champion of liberty and retired OBGYN, Dr. Ron Paul, provides concurrence (195) on the American Medical Association’s influence on the inhibition of competition in the medical field by limiting the number of practicing physicians in the field:
 
“Licensing strictly limits the number of individuals who can provide patient care. Many of these problems trace to the Flexner Report of 1910, which was financed by the Carnegie Foundation and strongly supported by the AMA. Many medical schools were closed and the number of doctors was drastically reduced.”
 
So, like always, capitalism is unfairly maligned and blamed for the failings of government intervention in the market. Proponents of central planning refuse to understand that their presuppositions regarding state regulation are economically irrational and, when written into policy that the government enforces, interfere with the natural functions of market transactions. This interference is especially true regarding the scarcity of resources within a particular market, which is reflected directly by the price mechanism. Writing for the <a href="https://mises.org/mises-wire/healthcare-and-market-failure">Mises Wire</a>, Mark Fouradoulas outlines the failures of government healthcare via the lens of the <a href="https://cdn.mises.org/Economic%20Calculation%20in%20the%20Socialist%20Commonwealth_Vol_2_3.pdf">Mises calculation problem</a>, which holds that price cannot accurately formulate when market forces are inhibited from action by state interference:
 
“Healthcare systems are mass-scale. Their development is unpredictable and their complexity unmanageable. The abandonment of market mechanisms of price formation inevitably leads to misguided incentives, rigid structures, and bureaucratization. Instead of the spontaneous order of the market, a chaotic web of unclear claims and quid pro quos emerges.”
 
As with any industry, it is only via competition through which pricing can accurately reflect the scarcity of goods and services in that particular market. Whenever central planning rears its ugly head, the complexity of the marketplace renders it completely obsolete, containing too many variables that the central planners cannot keep track of, hence why pricing under these parameters can never genuinely reflect scarcity and inevitably yields to rationing.
 
The best solution regarding high costs would be for hospitals and doctor’s offices to participate in price transparency. If healthcare professionals enacted this policy, patients could view the prices for medical services and procedures and compare them with those of competitors. This would allow patients to make informed decisions regarding their healthcare and provide another avenue for competition, which would drive prices down to overall more affordable levels. This would be a much better alternative to government mandates that restrict competition and artificially hike prices, causing patients and medical practices to suffer.
 
The prevention of free market competition and the artificial driving up of costs are not the only unfortunate by-products of state intervention in healthcare. From the Affordable Care Act (i.e., Obamacare) to the COVID-19 vaccine mandates, Americans are also facing an assault on their civil liberties regarding medical care. Attempts to force Americans to purchase insurance plans or undergo procedures that they might not need otherwise are merely further acts of tyrannical overreach by our federal government. All in the name of keeping Americans “safe and healthy,” the DC swamp, in actuality, is infringing on the rights of Americans to subsidize the mammoth corporations who, in turn, give kickbacks to the politicians that write and pass such capricious laws for their benefit. One cannot help but conclude that such blatant violations of economic and moral law are the epitome of fascism.
 
How can we inoculate healthcare against the state? For starters, we need to highlight the voices of medical professionals and politicians who willingly acknowledge the damage the government has dealt to the practice of medicine in our nation. Through the education of American citizens, we can spread awareness of how the principles of the free market can easily solve the problems in the healthcare system that have their ultimate roots in centralized economic planning. From there, we do our best to support and elect liberty-minded politicians at the federal, state, and local levels who will practice due diligence toward repealing every aspect of statist intervention in medical care, thus creating a free market for medicine for the benefit of all patients as well as medical professionals. When tyranny is the sickness, only liberty is the cure.
Eric Madden, Copywriter & Editor
* Paul, Ron. Liberty Defined. Grand Central Publishing, 2011. 
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<title>A Bunch of Federal Bull: The Omnibus Bill and Electronic Cattle Tracking</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peyton Hornberger]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 17:56:20 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The rights of American ranchers and farmers are at stake. In early March of this year, Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024, an omnibus spending bill that included a […]
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The rights of American ranchers and farmers are at stake. In early March of this year, Congress passed <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/4366/text">the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024</a>, an omnibus spending bill that included a $15 million earmark for the electronic tracking of cattle owned by farmers and ranchers in the US. Through this act, the Department of Agriculture will be able to monitor and record all data concerning the raising of cattle for the purpose of meat production, subjecting meat producers to further regulations and restrictions on their operations. Accordingly, livestock owners and liberty-minded lawmakers balked at the legislation, ringing the alarm bells regarding the bill as an assault on private property rights.
 
<a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/video/6349349142112">In a recent interview on Fox Business</a>, Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky, a livestock owner himself, made it completely clear to the audience the true intent behind the bill, citing the fact that legislators from both sides of the aisle have their reasons for the push to sign it into law: 
 
“ The left wants to ban cattle, and before you ban anything, you need a registry. You need to know where it’s at and who owns it, and that’s why they want to tag cattle. We’ve seen it happen in Europe. On the right, you’ve got some cronies who stand to make some money from these eartags. They’re the ones who get the $15 million earmark.”
 
Congressman Massie was also quick to point out that the bill was another form of corporate welfare, as the money allotted in the earmark would end up in the hands of the big conglomerates that currently control the meat processing industry in America, further consolidating their dominance at the expense of small business and eliminating whatever remains of the free market in that sector of the economy: 
 
“ [The money] doesn’t go to the USDA. It’s going to, quote, ‘stakeholders.’ That is a code word for ‘private entities are getting a handout.’ What they’ll do is they will verticalize the industry with this. There are four corporations that control meat processing in the United States. One is owned by China, one’s owned by Brazil. American ranchers will be working for those organizations if this tracking goes through, because they’ll verticalize the industry.”
During Massie’s appearance, Texas rancher Shad Sullivan was also interviewed, giving his perspectives on the bill from the vantage point of someone heavily involved in the meat industry. Sullivan was in complete agreement with Massie’s assessment of the legislation, concurring that it was an attempt to squeeze out smaller producers in favor of the large corporations who have everything to gain from the suffering of ranchers while also pointing out the fact that the bill is at its heart a blatant violation of property rights:
 
“It is the key that opens the door to the end of independent producers across the country, and it is a private property rights issue that we really have to consider here.”
 
He further explained that the legislation was similar to laws that currently exist in the EU, all under the guise of “fighting against climate change”:
 
“When we start talking about RFID, EID, and data-monitoring of farmers and ranchers, and their cattle herd size, we open up the door to what is going on in the European Union under the rules of sustainable development. We know that RFID has led to land seizure in the name of climate change. So once we open that door, there’s no going back. They can come and they can monitor, measure, report and verify everything that’s going on your farm or ranch, and then maybe down the road, in the name of climate change, they can come and dictate to you the rules of their production…and it is extremely dangerous to private property rights.”
 
This legislation is yet another example of the federal government parasitically violating the rights of Americans as a means of funneling money to corporate interests that they favor. Since it has become apparent that change is not likely to occur in Washington, the states should do everything in their power to nullify these fascist assaults on property rights and bring back some semblance of liberty in America. 
 
Eric Madden, Copywriter & Editor
 
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<title>Free Speech is NOT Dead in California</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2024 21:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In a major upset, the Student Rights Campaign (SRC) has scored its LARGEST Free Speech victory! The California University System’s Board of Regents attempted to implement an anti-free speech policy […]
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[In a major upset, the Student Rights Campaign (SRC) has scored its LARGEST Free Speech victory!
The California University System’s Board of Regents attempted to implement an anti-free speech policy that would have controlled posts that students made online, effectively censoring their speech. 
Through the efforts of Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) activists, a petition was circulated, and mass emails bearing the signatures of students opposing the policy were sent to board members. 
When the time came for the meeting to vote on the policy, student activists flooded the public comment section, demanding that the board respect the freedom of speech of its student body. 
As a result of our efforts, the anti-free speech measure failed gloriously, and we successfully defended the rights of over 280,000 students across 10 universities! 
This particular victory was also unique in that it was the SRC’s first defensive victory, successfully defeating an unconstitutional policy before it was even implemented! This win is a demonstrable example of SRC’s proactive approach to defending the rights of students on campus. 
This success is another in a long line of victories secured by the Student Rights Campaign, proving once again its effectiveness and commitment to defending liberty on college campuses across the country. 
Since 2021, we have restored the rights to 2,467,480 students nationwide and changed 154 campus policies. While this victory was a major success, SRC is nowhere near finished, and will continue in its mission to defend and restore the constitutional rights of students across the country.
 
By Eric Madden
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<title>The TikTok Countdown: H.R. 7521 and Why Time is Running Short for Free Speech Online</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Peyton Hornberger]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With the rise of social media as the new marketplace of ideas, the uniparty elite have set their sights on stifling perhaps the last frontier of free speech in America, […]
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[With the rise of social media as the new marketplace of ideas, the uniparty elite have set their sights on stifling perhaps the last frontier of free speech in America, encapsulated in <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7521">H.R. 7521</a>, colloquially known as the TikTok ban bill. The bill, recently passed by a <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202486">352-65</a> margin, nominally would force Bytedance, TikTok’s Chinese parent company, to sell the popular social media platform to a U.S. based firm, with the alternative being an outright prohibition of its use in the country.
The prevailing narrative used in justifying the bill is that the Chinese Communist Party will utilize its influence over TikTok’s parent company and render the app as a potential risk to national security. However, in reaction to the controversial legislation, many prominent voices in the political sphere have expressed concerns over the implications that the bill would have in regards to freedom of speech on the Internet. 
In a <a href="https://twitter.com/RepThomasMassie/status/1767525209064558954">tweet</a> from March 12th, liberty champion Rep. Thomas Massie, who voted against the bill, described the legislation as a “trojan horse,” which would give the President “ the power to ban WEBSITES, not just Apps.” 
Journalist and conservative firebrand Tucker Carlson <a href="https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1767636879677984822">echoed</a> these sentiments, alluding to Elon Musk’s X (formerly Twitter) being an obvious target and the logical conclusion to the establishment’s push for this legislation:
“In a classified briefing this afternoon, attended by officials from the Biden Justice Department, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed that Elon committed “election interference” in 2022 by “changing the algorithms” on X to alter the results of the midterms that year. Not coincidentally, the anti-TikTok legislation now being debated on the Hill would allow the federal government to force the sale of any social media platform that interferes in elections. Just so you know what’s coming in 2025.”
However, it is not just the American right that have conveyed disdain for the bill, as many noteworthy left-wing figures have also spoken out against its adoption. Jenna Leventoff, the senior policy counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union, <a href="https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-urges-senate-to-reject-tiktok-ban-bill-following-house-passage">did not mince words</a> regarding her opinion of the legislation:
“Make no mistake: the House’s TikTok bill is a ban, and it’s blatant censorship. Today, the House of Representatives voted to violate the First Amendment rights of more than half of the country. The Senate must reject this unconstitutional and reckless bill.”
It is also notable that 50 House Democrats voted against the bill as opposed to a mere 15 members of the GOP, which claims to be the party of limited government. 
Given the Federal government’s past history of using similar legislation to leverage more power for itself at the expense of violating the rights of American citizens, supporters of free speech should be heavily concerned with the wide-ranging consequences of the bill. As noted by <a href="https://reason.com/2024/03/14/tiktok-china-ban-federal-government-libertarians/">Robby Soave</a> at Reason, the actions of the Feds in recent years have set a terrifying precedent of tyrannical overreach regarding information shared on social media:
“Of course, the U.S. government has also pressured American tech companies to censor content on social media. Thanks to <a href="https://reason.com/2023/10/17/matt-taibbi-on-journalism/">the Twitter Files</a>, <a href="https://reason.com/2023/01/19/facebook-files-emails-cdc-covid-vaccines-censorship/">the Facebook Files</a>, and other independent investigations, we know that multiple federal agencies—including the FBI, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Homeland Security, and even the White House—instructed social media platforms to take down contrarian content relating to elections, Hunter Biden, COVID-19, and other subjects.”
In what is already amounting to a tumultuous year in politics, 2024 may also yield further erosion of First Amendment protections enjoyed by Americans, once again in the name of “keeping us safe.” With the Senate’s vote on the bill looming, coupled with the fact that President Biden has <a href="https://apnews.com/article/biden-tiktok-ban-house-china-aaa884d8c974f0a35856af5ee6aa4e99">indicated that he will sign the bill into law</a> if it reaches the Oval Office desk, the days of free speech online may be numbered.
If we are to reverse course, advocates for liberty across America should do everything in their power to voice their opposition to H.R. 7521. 
Eric Madden, Copywriter & Editor
 
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<title>Young Americans for Liberty Frees Two Million Students Across America</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 11 May 2023 15:10:19 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[YAL’s Student Rights Campaigns end mask and vaccine mandates, remove pepper spray bans, defend free speech, and more
Austin, TX — Today, Young Americans for Liberty (YAL)—the nation’s most active youth liberty organization—announced a major milestone for its Student Rights Campaigns (SRCs) taking place across America. Mobilizing thousands of student activists on behalf of freedom, YAL has officially liberated more than two million students on college campuses around the country.
Pushing back against a wide range of unfair, anti-liberty policies, YAL has successfully ended mask and vaccine mandates, removed pepper spray bans, and defended free speech on college campuses across America. The organization’s student activists were particularly active at Indiana University, the University of Alabama Huntsville, and the University of Maine in recent months. Most recently, YAL pushed for body cameras on police officers at the University of South Florida, ensuring that campus law enforcement is held accountable to students.
“By freeing over two million students from unjust administrative policies, Young Americans for Liberty’s Student Rights Campaigns have demonstrated the vital importance of fighting for individual freedom and protecting the rights of all students,” said JP Kirby, YAL’s Director of Student Rights. “Students should not be treated like second-class citizens on campus—college students are adults and deserve to be treated accordingly. I am proud of our student activists for fighting for their rights.”
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