"Government is essentially the negation of liberty." ~Ludwig von Mises
- personal freedom - civil disobedience, freedom of association
- economic freedom - laissez faire capitalism, sound money
- non-interventionist foreign policy - free trade, neutrality, peace
- government limited to defense of life, liberty and property - limited government, libertarianism, private property
- federation - states rights, secession
- threats to liberty - fear (anarchy, external enemies), greed (bailouts, central banking/fiat money, mercantilism, political capitalism, special interest groups), envy (egalitarianism, entitlement programs, political correctness, victimology, welfare), ignorance (glorifying democracy, lacking Austrian economics, altering history), fantasy (romanticism, utopianism)
- importance of ideas - intellectual climate
- debt - national debt
- doctrines - central planning, fascism, imperialism, interventionism, limited government, mercantilism, statism
- foreign policy - imperialsm, isolationism, neutrality
- legitimate functions - national defense
- monetary policy - boom and bust cycle, bubbles, central banking, credit expansion, Federal Reserve, inflation
- political parties - Democrats, Republicans, Whigs
- special interest groups - environmentalists, lawyers, military industrial complex, Wall Street
- theft - entitlement programs, taxation, welfare
- tyranny - nanny state, police state
- U.S. Constitution - commerce clause, executive power, Supreme Court
- war - conscription, war on drugs, war on poverty, war on terror
- waste - boondoggles, regulation, spending, subsidies
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