The Subscription Contest Winners

A Don't Tread On Me T-shirt, one of the prizes courtesy of ReTeaParty.com

Okay! The Subscription Contest prize winners have finally been determined and have all responded back to me in the affirmative that they want to claim their prizes and be announced on the blog. Everyone who subscribed via e-mail to The Humble Libertarian during the contest period was entered into a drawing for three prizes. Thank you, everyone that subscribed and promoted the contest!

Here are the winners:

1st Prize: Patrick - Tennessee
2nd Prize: Greg - Michigan
3rd Prize: George - Tennessee

Congratulations to Patrick, Greg, and George!

What they won:

3rd place - The choice of a Campaign Bumper Sticker from Schiff2010 or Rand2010

2nd place - A "Don't Tread On Me" T-shirt from ReTeaParty.com

1st place - A "Don't Tread On Me" T-Shirt and Campaign Bumper Sticker (also courtesy of ReTeaParty.com), as well as a copy of "The Revolution: A Manifesto" by Congressman Ron Paul (Amazon.com's "Most Loved" Book of 2008):

The Sponsor - PEAC PAC

The Political Exploration and Awareness Committee, PAC (PEAC PAC) is a grassroots effort to provide support and organization for independent individuals and organizations to organize events more efficiently. They operate a few websites that I help contribute articles to such as:

ReTeaParty.com
Schiff2010.com
Rand2010.com
JudgeNapolitano.com
I personally support their efforts, love the political activism they are bringing to the table, and am honored to have had their sponsorship to make great prizes available for this contest.

Thomas Sowell Returns

By: Thomas Winslow Hazlett Reason

How To Cripple The Real Estate Market In Five Easy Steps

If the government and the banks had just allowed real estate prices drop to market equilibrium, we'd be out of this mess and housing would truly be affordable. But the government is determined to artificially prop up housing prices, whatever the cost to the economy. If you were head of Central Planning (howdy, Ben!) and were tasked with crippling the real estate market, here's what you would recommend. Choke the market and banking sector with zombie banks... Have the central bank (the Federal Reserve) buy up $1 trillion in toxic, impaired mortgages... Lower the rate that banks can borrow from the Fed to zero, and then pay the banks interest on all funds deposited at the Fed... Try to prop up the housing market by giving poor credit risk buyers loans with only 3% down... Load young people up with the equivalent of a mortgage in student loans... OK,let's see how our Organs of Central Planning are doing: check, check, check, check, check: a perfect score! they're...

Tax Bill Is Beginning of Formal Debt Criminalization

The noose is tightening on liberty. The United States Congress is steadily headed to a place where those who owe money to the US government shall be treated criminally. This phenomenon is advancing domestically and now, increasingly, internationally. The first shot in this latest campaign took place in 2010 when US President Barack Obama signed into law The Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act. It demanded, basically, that foreign banks withhold up to 30 percent of the income that an American abroad might earn. This bill isn't working so well because overseas banks are not cooperating (a state of affairs that was certainly expected). Thus, there is a need for something else: Senate Bill 1813, recently introduced by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA). This bill, in part, states that taxpayers with unpaid taxes over US$50,000 may find their passports confiscated. This isn't criminal per se, but the IRS has recently made noises about "sharing" information with police a...

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