In the past, I’ve highlighted Christmas rivalries.
- Is Santa Claus liberal or conservative?
- Do we want a Christmas that celebrates political correctness or mocks political correctness?
- How about an Ayn Rand vs Karl Marx Christmas?
- Or how about Ted Cruz vs Karl Marx on Christmas?
- Last but not least, anybody up for a Christmas battle between libertarians and socialists?
This Christmas, though, let’s just go with a libertarian theme. We’ll start with a new video from the clever folks at Reason.
Since the video mentioned Santa sneaking in the country and evading tariffs, here’s a cartoon strip featuring a protectionist Scrooge.
Poor Santa Claus.
He already buried by red tape and he’s been hassled by the IRS and other federal agencies.
Plus he has to deal with children who make impossible requests.
The last thing he needs is trade taxes reducing the amount of toys he can distribute.
But there is hope for a détente between Trump and Santa.
Now let’s focus on some good news.
Here’s a video about the blessings of capitalism. It has a Christmas theme, but free enterprise is a gift every single day of the year.
The above video makes a very Schumpeterian point about how capitalism is the system that best serves the needs of poor people.
But let’s not digress from out holiday theme.
We now have another video from Reason. Remy sings about how a corrupt tax code forces a very unsavory form of redistribution from the poor to the rich.
And if you liked that Remy video, he has a pair of great Christmas-themed videos (here and here) about the TSA.
Merry Christmas!
P.S. Here are Christmas carols to enlighten Keynesians.
P.P.S. Here’s a Christmas commercial for fans of the 2nd Amendment.
P.P.P.S. Jay Leno shared the best-ever Christmas joke.
P.P.P.P.S. Speaking of best-ever, you’ll understand why this Christmas present ranks among my favorites.
P.P.P.P.P.S. Here are some additional Christmas-themed TSA songs.
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“SOCIALISM: “BABY FORMULA IS $12. IT WOULD TAKE ME THREE MONTHS TO MAKE $12.”
December 25, 2018 Daniel Greenfield”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/272353/socialism-baby-formula-12-it-would-take-me-three-daniel-greenfield
Since Santa clearly has a faster-than-light motor in his sleigh, I’m sure he can dodge any bombs that governments throw at him.
A more productive fight to engage in, though, is the ongoing one against the “deplatforming” movement, which aims to silence everyone who is sane enough not to be a Social Justice Warrior.
after 60 years of Communism… the average wage in Cuba is around $20 usd pr mo… food shortages will be border-line catastrophic in coming weeks… (it’s climate change… coupled with the policies of the evil trumpkin of course…) Venezuelans are starving… fleeing their country in droves… eating zoo animals and household pets… the IMF forecast for Venezuela’s 2018 year-end annual inflation rate is 12,874.6%… thugs have stripped the oil fields of drilling equipment and engineers and doctors have mostly fled the country… in North Korea they are eating baby-mouse soup with tree bark seasoning… and in America… the elderly bern ( a multimillionaire himself…) is working diligently with a new generation of socialist democrats and useful idiots to convince the electorate of the wondrous and idyllic society Marxist socialism can bring to America…………………………… you just can’t make this stuff up…………..
Merry Christmas…………………………..