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Is the Credit Crisis really over?
Destructive State Agencies
Green gone wild: Nature vs Human Rights

Causes of European Growth Differentials
European Social Model: Facts & Fairy Tales
Europe needs Saving
The Economic Case for Limited Government
Great Myths of the Great Depression
Europe on the road to Serfdom?

5% growth is no Utopia
The Failure-of-Central-Banking
US & European Public Debt loose AAA Rating
The paved road to Hyper Stagflation
The Future of the EMU

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The Day Paper Money collapsed (YouTube)

Lisbon Treaty: Lies, Fraud and Deceit
Lisbon Treaty: Europeans want Referenda
Al Gore-ists advocate green Bureaucracy
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Tax competition: Logic & Benefits (YouTube)
The Makers vs Takers Manifesto (YouTube)
Is the European Social Model doomed?
Can we still avoid Inflation (Hayek)

The Path to Financially Sustainable Growth
Will pension time bomb sink the Euro?
Inflation & effective Monetary Policy
Fiscal Policy Lessons from Europe 
Entrepreneurship is lucrative... and just.
The optimal size of public Spending
Equality and growth: a non-linear relationship.

A Danish Model for all? IMF says No
More Europe will not solve our problems
Flexicurity:a Danish fairy tale come true?
Inflation explained on one Page.
What is Money - What is inflation.
Great Myths of the Great 1929 Depression

Is online banking Safe? Northern Rock lessons
Climate Change: What's Wrong with the IPCC?
Letter to President Bush
Shifting Tax on pollutors helps Economy.
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Budgetstop: noodzakelijk & haalbaar
Vlaktaks : Een maat voor niks
Fairtax: eerlijke verdeling belastingdruk

Staatshervorming naar Zwitsers Model

5% Welvaartsgroei is géén Utopie.
Welvaartvast pensioen basis generatieconflict
Budget 2008- Diepste Werkloosheidsval ooit.

"Wij verkiezen een Führer" - M.DeVlieghere
   Ekonomische oorzaken van Racisme & Oorlog
Vrijhandel & Globalisering - Frank_van_Dun

Beliën over Secessie: het recht op afscheiding
De Mythe van het Scandinavisch Model
Oorzaken van Europese groeiverschillen
Europa's Sociaal Model: sprookje & feiten
Hoe veilig is internet bankieren?

Ronald Reagan was een knap Econoom
Hommage aan Milton Friedman

Vlaktaks, fairtax of lowtax ?
De ziekte van de Waalse herstelplannen

De ecologische Grenzen van de Stagnatie.
Hoe Ierland de Fiscale Fraude oploste
Repartitiestelsel oorzaak van pensioencrisis
De filosofie van de Vrijheid in Beeld
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Budgetstop: Slankheidskuur voor overheid
Keynes is dood
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5% de Croissance 'est pas une Utopie.
Mythe Scandinave: La Vérité des Chiffres
Causes de Croissance differentielle Europ.

Modèle social europ. Conte de fées et faits
Envers un modèle Social durable
L'optimum fiscal est de 35% du PIB
Belgique: 5% de croissance est possible
Polique fiscale pour la Croissance et l'Emploi

Wallonie: Le plan Marshall amélioré
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Myten om velferdsstaten
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Crítica ao Modelo do Welfare State:
overno fraco, governo ruim 
A Dimensão do Estado. Irreflexão política, social e económica   

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Tax Competition & Tax Cartels
Tax competition between countries is good. International tax agreements that organise tax harmonisation are bad. Tax competition compels governments to economic use of public resources. It stimulates efficient public services,  prevents wasteful public spending and saves taxpayers money. Learn the Logic and Benefits
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The Laffer Curve explained
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why marginal tax revenu declines
when tax rates increase. Historical examples
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Basics of Economics in 28 mins
Nobel Prize laureate Milton Friedman
 
discusses Big Government, Minimum Wages, High Taxes,  Trade Unions, Public Squander,
Big Brother, Subsidies and other means of destroying our  Economy. 
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The Road to Serfdom
road-to-serfdomThis masterpiece of Nobel Prize laureate Friedrich Hayek is an eye-opener, strongly advocating the free market principles. In this all-time classic Hayek persuasively warns against the authoritarian utopias of central planning and the welfare state.

Fascism, communism and socialism share these utopias. For the implementation of their plans these authoritarian ideologies require government power over the individual, inevitably leading to a totalitarian state. Every step away from the free market toward planning reduces people's freedom and is a step toward tyranny.

Planning also cannot assess consumer preferences with sufficient accuracy to efficiently co-ordinate production. In a free market "Price" is the all-inclusive source of information, guiding entrepreneurs to produce whatever is wanted and directing workers wherever they are most needed. Free markets also provide the entrepreneurial climate for a thriving economy and for releasing the creative energy of its citizens. Free individuals in their native endeavour to develop their talents and their eternal pursuit of better living conditions produce spontaneous progress.

All public interference in the economic process disturbs the market equilibrium, distorts the optimal allocation of resources and consequently reduces the level of wealth. Where planning replaces free markets people do not only loose their freedom and individuality. Resulting slow growth also increases welfare demands causing dependence similar to slavery. In the end people's self-reliance and self-respect is ruined, and citizens are degraded to a means to serve the ends of the collective mass.
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Is Belasting nu Diefstal of niet?
belasting is diefstal
Een opmerkelijk debat ten gronde tussen
Prof. L.Stevens en Toine Manders
  
Alleen de Staat en de Maffia gebruiken dwang
en zelfs dreiging met geweld om zich voor hun "diensten" te laten betalen. De overheid
verdedigt haar dwang met het excuus
dat burgers niet bereid zijn tot vrijwillige bijdrage
voor de collectieve voorzieningen:
voor wegen, voor onderwijs en politie...  

Dat is een drogreden: de private sector slaagt  er immers wél in de financiering van collectieve voorzieningen rond te krijgen zónder dwang of geweld. Neem het voorbeeld van shopping centra.
Daar  zijn de collectieve voorzieningen privaat gerealiseerd in vrijwillige samenwerking.

Straten, parkings en beveiliging zijn privaat gefinancierd zonder dwang noch overheid.
De kwaliteit van de voorzieningen is er zelfs
veel beter dan de publieke diensten van de stad:
Gratis parking, keurige toiletten, airco op straten en pleintjes... Comfort dus in plaats van stadsstoepen
met valkuilen, hondenpoep en parkeerboetes.

Ook de drogreden van "Free riding" (niet-kopers, wandelaars die meegenieten zonder enige tegenprestatie) vormt er geen enkel probleem. 

Op dezelfde basis van vrijwilligheid  kunnen privéverzekeringen even goed de sociale zekerheid  organiseren.  Dwang is alleen nodig als men aan klanten totaal ongewenste diensten wil aansmeren
of iets wil verkopen tegen een veel te hoge prijs.


Dwang is dus (vrijwel altijd vermijdbare)

initiatie van geweld. Belastingen staan daarom
op hetzelfde moreel niveau als diefstal.

"Wie dwang gebruikt is schuldig aan moedwillig geweld. Dwang is inhumaan."
Mahatma Gandhi