Health Care

Hello Zags for Liberty!

The discussion topic for tomorrow is Health Care. We will be meeting at 8 PM Lower Crosby; the mail room, Sunday, October 21st.

Here are a couple readings!
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5422 - "A blueprint for health care freedom" -Cato Institute

http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/html/pa532/pa532index.html - A really long policy paper by the Cato Institute. Skimming through is probably all that is necessary.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/123004.html - Reason Magazine's call to end employer-provided health care.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kf3MtjMBWx4 - The John Stossel report on Health Care that we watched the other week. Parts 2-6 are also on Youtube, pretty easy to find.

Fair Tax

Greetings everyone!

We will be meeting tonight (September 30) in the mail room of lower crosby, at 7:00 PM, to discuss the Fair Tax

Here are some links!
http://www.fairtax.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_main - Official website

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110010523 - WSJ attack on the FT

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig3/long1.html - Unrelated, but fun.

First Meeting

Hello libertarians!

Our first meeting of the year will be taking place 9:00, Tuesday September 4th, on first floor Crosby at our usual meeting place. Our discussion will consist of determining our objectives for the year, discussion topics, club fair, and elections.

Be sure to suggest some books for our reccomended reading list, and I hope to see you all on Tuesday!

Ryan

Libertarian Reading List

Greetings, Libertarians

For this coming year I am putting together a reading list for the club, just some reccomendations, fiction, non-fiction, history, whatever. I've opened the comments, so if anyone has any suggestions, let us know!

Anarchy!

Here are some readings for our meeting tonight, 9:00 in Crosby.

Murray Rothbard - http://www.mises.org/rothbard/ethics/ethics.asp this is a full size book, I would suggest reading chapters 22 and 23.

http://oll.libertyfund.org/Texts/LFBooks/Herbert0120/CompulsionByState/HTMLs/0146_Pt02_Choices.html

I'll also bring my David Friedman book; he doens't have a substantial amount of it online.

Tonight at 9:00 PM we will be meeting in Crosby to discuss the FDA: what role does it have, if any, and how can it be made more useful? Here are some links to read before coming.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/29097.html - Reason Magazine article
http://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=279 - Economists against the FDA

Intellectual Property Discussion: 03/28

Tonight we're meeting at 9:00 on 1st floor Crosby to discuss intellectual property, and the government's role in protecting it.

Pro-intellectual property:
http://libertariannation.org/a/f32h3.html
http://news.com.com/Two+cheers+for+intellectual-property+law/2010-1014-6165353.html
http://www.ciel.org/Tae/Trade_IntProperty.html

Anti-intellectual property:
http://libertariannation.org/a/f31l1.html
http://www.codepoet.org/~markw/musings/ip.html


Further Reading, from Dingel:
http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstnew.htm
-This is book length, but worth the additional reading.

E-mail me at libertarians@gonzaga.edu with any additional links!