Imprisoning one person in a Bureau of Prisons facility costs $23,183.69 a year (2004 numbers). Those a taxpayer dollars. If we weren’t imprisoning drug users, those dollars could be used for other purposes. What could you do with an extra $23,183.69 a year? How does the War on Drugs affect one of your most precious [...]
A tax haven is any territory or country where there are low taxes or no taxes at all. For some people and many companies, they find that it is more economic and makes more sense to relocate to this area because they can save a considerable amount of money on their taxes. What this creates, [...]
The tea party movement has grown so strong so rapidly that even the leftist mass media have covered some of the events. Of course, they see men and women standing up for their Constitutional rights as dangerous extremists whose very existence threatens the socialist paradise which the new communist movement is building for Americans. One [...]
The American border is indefensible and until we recognize and accept this fact we will continue to waste precious resources attempting to accomplish an impossible goal. I am not speaking here only of our Southern border, but also our Western and Eastern sea borders and our Northern border with Canada. Our Southern border is 1,969 [...]
Nobel prize winning economist Friedrich Hayek’s book The Road to Serfdom is required reading for any serious student of liberty. Hayek’s warnings are very timely, as they seem to describe quite well the events we are currently seeing in the American political system. The folks at Mises.org have placed a copy of The Road to [...]
Here at Fort Liberty, we’re big fans of small government. We don’t like bureaucrats and busybodies telling us what to do, and we don’t like being forced to pay them for the privilege. However, we are now in the minority. Judging by the last presidential election, the majority of Americans do want someone to tell [...]
