Entrepreneurship is an extension of the process of rationalization, and is a characteristic innate in the human spirit. Government can only serve to hinder the entrepreneur from finding opportunities to invest and create wealth. As a result, government contributes a net loss to wealth creation.
Posts Tagged ‘Investment’
Haiti: Two Hundred Tragic Years
Haiti, in the long-term, needs a government which supports the free-market, property rights and entrepreneurship. In other words, Haiti needs to move towards liberty and laissez-faire, otherwise it will remain susceptible to continued tragedies.
A Spanish Entrepreneur vs. The State
The story of Pedro Permnyer and Francisco Bultó’s motorcycle manufacturing firm named Montesa.
Don’t Be Fooled by GDP
Third-quarter data for 2009 is misleading, because most of the growth in GDP is only temporary and will cost us the same, or more, in the near future. Economic prognostics should not be based on GDP data, but on sound economic theory.
Spain to raise taxes on foreign entrepreneurs
Spain’s PSOE government plans to raise taxes on wealthy foreigners living in Spain from 24% to 43%, effectively shattering the attraction Spain offered to foreign entrepreneurs and their capital.
Forestation through the Free-Market
Roughly half of the world’s original forested surface area no longer exists. We depend on these forests for our survival. The key to long-term ecological sustainability is the free-market and private property rights.
Taxes Discourage Production
A chapter from Henry Hazlitt’s “Economics in One Lesson”. Hazlitt explains why taxation will discourage investment and production, disallowing new jobs from being created and perpetuating unemployment.
Why Not Legalize Theft?
Obama’s universal health care proposal only benefits the few in the expense of the majority. And, ultimately, even those few that benefit from the system will be negatively effected by the inevitable drop in productivity that will come as a result of an increase in taxes.
