In the past, I’ve highlighted Christmas rivalries.
- Is Santa Claus liberal or conservative?
- Do we want a Christmas that celebrates political correctness or mocks political correctness?
- How about an Ayn Rand vs Karl Marx Christmas?
- Or how about Ted Cruz vs Karl Marx on Christmas?
- Last but not least, anybody up for a Christmas battle between libertarians and socialists?
This Christmas, though, let’s just go with a libertarian theme. We’ll start with a new video from the clever folks at Reason.
Since the video mentioned Santa sneaking in the country and evading tariffs, here’s a cartoon strip featuring a protectionist Scrooge.
Poor Santa Claus.
He already buried by red tape and he’s been hassled by the IRS and other federal agencies.
Plus he has to deal with children who make impossible requests.
The last thing he needs is trade taxes reducing the amount of toys he can distribute.
But there is hope for a détente between Trump and Santa.
Now let’s focus on some good news.
Here’s a video about the blessings of capitalism. It has a Christmas theme, but free enterprise is a gift every single day of the year.
The above video makes a very Schumpeterian point about how capitalism is the system that best serves the needs of poor people.
But let’s not digress from out holiday theme.
We now have another video from Reason. Remy sings about how a corrupt tax code forces a very unsavory form of redistribution from the poor to the rich.
And if you liked that Remy video, he has a pair of great Christmas-themed videos (here and here) about the TSA.
Merry Christmas!
