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2 weeks ago | 
lewrockwell.com | James Anthony |rConstitution Papers |Lew Rockwell
Republicans’ Tariffs Take Away Individuals’ Freedom When I specialize in the work that others pay me more for, I produce more of what people value. If one of my customers lives where he is subject to different government people, often those people force him to pay them some money before he can buy my work. Tariffs Done Right versus Tariffs Done WrongPresident Trump has raised a chance that those government people might get pushed back against by USA national government people.
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3 weeks ago | 
lewrockwell.com | James Anthony |rConstitution Papers |Lew Rockwell
President Trump is determining equivalent reciprocal tariffs, considering remedies, and estimating fiscal impacts on the national government and information-collection costs to the public. Fast, extensive change, even change that’s initially for the worse, works out best for freedom. Even so, tariff increases have done serious harm and have persisted for decades. It’s worth discussing constitutionality, harms, dynamics, and options.
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1 month ago | 
lewrockwell.com | James Anthony |rConstitution Papers |Lew Rockwell
So far, freer nations haven’t ended deprivations of life. For now, Republican president Abraham Lincoln gets lauded for ending deprivations of blacks’ liberty, even though he provoked and escalated war, which caused deprivations of life, of free men’s liberty, and of property.
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1 month ago | 
lewrockwell.com | James Anthony |rConstitution Papers |Lew Rockwell
In President Trump’s second term, he has been moving fast. He is already passing the overall total numbers of executive orders of Bush, Obama, and himself in his first term, and he looks set to easily pass the overall total of the Biden presidency. Trump’s executive orders, although limited in overall extent, have been substantive starts in such areas as government efficiency, energy, and immigration.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
lewrockwell.com | James Anthony |rConstitution Papers |Lew Rockwell
Democrats have always been effective in advancing their open objective of despotism, one way or another:With a senate supermajority across Obama’s first two years in office, Democrats united to produce the focused change of Obamacare.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
lewrockwell.com | James Anthony |rConstitution Papers |Lew Rockwell
Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency plan is to cancel major regulations, reduce headcounts, and defund inadequately-authorized expenditures and waste, but not to shrink entitlement programs. This plan would require legislators to stop using the executive power to allocate budgets, presidents and bureaucrats to stop using legislative power to pass rules, and judges to start opining quickly and broadly against presidents and bureaucrats.
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Dec 2, 2024 | 
lewrockwell.com | James Anthony |rConstitution Papers |Lew Rockwell
The executive Power shall be . “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, .”Each existing statute and new bill is constitutional only if it passes all of the following simple pass/fail tests:[1] No misleading parts. [2] Only uses powers enumerated for the national government. [3] No delegation of legislative power. [4] No grabs of executive power. [5] No grabs of judicial power.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
lewrockwell.com | James Anthony |rConstitution Papers |Lew Rockwell
This year, the Missouri Freedom Caucus was launched. In its first legislative session, its top priority was to reform the initiative-petition process. Without reform, 50% of voters, mainly from metros St. Louis and Kansas City, could enact into the Missouri Constitution such Progressive initiatives as protection for abortion.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
lewrockwell.com | James Anthony |rConstitution Papers |Lew Rockwell
Voluntary cooperation is robust, multiply-protected, and loss-limiting, and brings healthy deflation. A government regulator makes a system fragile, fraught with a single point of failure, and loss-compounding, and brings sickening inflation. Donald Trump and his unity team members Robert Kennedy and Elon Musk promise to limit cronyism and slash waste. Both approaches deny that state-government and national-government administrative states are themselves peak cronyism.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
lewrockwell.com | James Anthony |rConstitution Papers |Lew Rockwell
Schooling is constrained by government requirements to pay, attend, qualify before teaching, not employ children, segregate children by age, teach specific curricula, and administer specific tests. Free ourselves from these constraints, and the schooling that individuals will ultimately develop and choose will deliver far-better performance, price, and value-added for everybody.
