The 1905 Jacobson vs Mass decision needs to be challenged by a new Rosa Parks. No more emergency powers should be granted to Governments. During an emergency, government should only offer help, not censor and restrict. These can only lead to dangerous tyranny.
Author: VN Alexander
Victoria N. Alexander, Ph.D., is a literary fiction novelist and a philosopher of science. She is a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center alum, a Public Scholar for the New York Council for the Humanities and a director at the Dactyl Foundation, working on new and emerging concepts in science and encouraging interaction between the sciences and the arts. vnalexander.com
Public Banking for New York State
New York Senator Sanders teams up with the Public Banking Institute to educate New Yorkers about the benefits of public banking. Victoria Alexander assists in the presentation.
2021 To Do
Thank you to those in district 19 who supported this campaign. Every election precious human energy is spent trying to achieve new and better ways of living in the world. We are disappointed, but not surprised, when things stay pretty much the same after all that effort. The time in between elections is when we…
Alexander for Congress 2020
I’m Victoria Alexander. I’m running for Congress from New York’s 19th district as a Libertarian. I am also seeking support from Greens, disenchanted Democrats and Republicans, voters who all have approximately the same goals but different ideas about how to achieve them. My goal, which unites us all, is to try to decentralize…
Do-it-yourself alternative currency for small towns
I have been lately courting the Green and Libertarian parties about my running for Congress in NY District 19. Recently, I attended a NY state Libertarian monthly meeting. When the topic of the possible collapse of the U.S. petro-dollar came up, many people said that they had invested in gold or other commodities–or Bitcoin–in preparation…
What, exactly, is “Capitalism,” and “Ownership”?
Dictionaries usually define “capitalism” as a political/economic system in which individuals or corporations are said to have the right to “own” things and therefore get to decide pricing, production and distribution of goods produced or services rendered. There are three different kinds of ownership: 1. The right to the fruits of one’s own labor 2….
Three Pillars of Society: Business, State and Charity
Much of our political discourse is about whether the government or the free market should control the basic structures of society. Each has its role but there are three pillars of society, whose roles should be kept separate: 1. For-profit 2. Government 3. Non-profit The for-profit community provides all those goods and services that are…
What, exactly, is “Socialism”?
Dictionary definitions of “Socialism” don’t seem to fit the way it’s often used. For example Merriam Webster tells us Socialism is “collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods,” which sounds a lot like Communism. The term “Socialism” is most often used to describe government support for and…
Sliding Scale Government Fees
Why charge sliding-scale fees for government services such as health care and education? In the United States we currently have extreme economic disparity that has been caused, at least partially, if not mainly, by government policies. Tax regulations that benefit interest income earners and capital gains income earners over wage earners contribute to disparity. The…
Minimum Wage
In the US, while the cost of living per year has increased since 1970, the average income has not increased. This means that a lot of people are not earning a living wage, about 30% of non-self-employed workers over eighteen, according to the Pew Research Center. Behind an increase in the number of people working…
The Separation of Business and State and the Privatization of Public Education
Because US public schools do poorly compared to those in other developed countries, those who support a “free market” approach argue the quality of education would be improved if public education were subjected to the effects of competition: schools that are inferior will go bankrupt; schools that are good get more customers. (This leaves aside…
Moral Responsibility and Capitalism
From Mises Institute, “In his book, Where and Why Public Ownership Has Failed (1914), Yves Guyot, using both statistics and economic theory, shows systematically that private railways are safer, cost less, and more efficient. An unsafe private rail company is penalized by consumers whereas nationalized industries escape all material and moral penalty. Therefore, safety requirements…
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