Socialists like New York City’s new mayor push the “warmth” of collectivism. Activists chant about “sharing the prosperity.”
But every time they build their model of a socialist utopia, a commune, they fail! Here’s more from John Stossel.
People vilify business for being “greedy.”
Yaron Brook calls that a cultural problem, the idea that “when you pursue your own self-interest, or when you produce and create, you are somehow a villain.”
Brook is the chairman of the board of The Ayn Rand Institute. Here, he sits down for an hour-long interview with John Stossel.
Among the topics they cover: Selfishness, immigration, war, love, liberty and, of course, Ayn Rand.
Some immigrants get government handouts. That makes people mad. But the problem isn’t the immigrants.
“The way to deal with that is to restrict the goodies,” explains Yaron Brook, the chairman of the board at the Ayn Rand Institute. More on that, and other solutions here, in a new broadcast on immigrants and the U.S. economy from John Stossel.
Before government got involved, Americans were lifting themselves out of poverty. When welfare began, progress continued for about seven years, but then it stopped, creating a state of dependence for the poor.
Yaron Brook, chairman of the board at the Ayn Rand Institute, tells investigative reporter John Stossel that the welfare program does more harm than good, basically teaching those in need that they don’t have to work. The solution might be in charities, which work a lot better to improve the lives of many impoverished Americans by building their self-esteem and keeping them off the public dole. Tune in to find out how.
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Sargon was speaking at Kings College in London with Yaron Brook, when Antifa arrived to show their discontent and try to shut Sargon down. Fortunately, members of the audience beat back the Antifa Leftists and they retreated. Guess they were just expecting trash cans they could whip on.
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Yaron Brook, president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, tells Glenn Beck that ominous economic clouds lay ahead for the United States. “Over the next 20 plus-minus years, we’re in deep, deep economic trouble,” Brook says. “It might be sooner. It might be three years, but at some point this country goes bankrupt.” Listen to the full discussion in this edition of “The Blaze.”
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Yaron Brook, president and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, calls for the abolition of the IRS, saying the agency’s targeting of Tea Party groups because of their political views demonstrates that the IRS has become too powerful and corrupt to remain intact. Failure to reign in this rogue agency will lead to an erosion of our civil liberties and freedom of speech.
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In the same vein, US Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-South Carolina, delivers an epic takedown of the IRS for its exorbitant spending and lavish employee conferences, all undertaken as the rest of the country was facing furloughs and economic hardships.
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Meanwhile, Sen. Marco Rubio is on board with simplifying the tax code so the IRS can be downsized. “Our tax code is way too complicated,” the Florida Republican says.
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Yaron Brook from the Ayn Rand Institute answers a question form Ronnie, “How would a free society deal with the absence of car licenses and car age restrictions?”
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SALUTE TO AYN RAND
Did Ayn Rand provide a path to economic prosperity? Yaron Brook, author of Free Market Revolution: How Ayn Rand’s Ideas Can End Big Government and executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute, believes so, and tells Bill Whittle why in a special PJTV interview. Among the many topics Brook covers: the housing crisis, government spending and the roots of the current economic stagnation.
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“The government is the biggest violator of our rights today.” That’s the word from Yaron Brook, co-author of Free Market Revolution and president of the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights.
At FreedomFest 2012, Reason.TV’s Matt Welch sat down with Brook to discuss why big government hurts the poor and how Ayn Rand inspired the Tea Party. Rand is as popular today as ever, Brook says, noting that 1.5 million copies of her novel Atlas Shrugged have sold since President Barack Obama’s election in 2008.
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