What's so great about Economic Freedom?

We need to limit the government and its negative influence on our economy. The more that the government regulates our businesses and our wages, the more we lose economic freedoms. Evidence shows that our government programs are not working as promised.

But what’s so great about economic freedom anyways? Watch the video to find out.

What of other meddling that will in no doubt hurt our economy? Let’s take a look at minimum wage laws. In his State of the Union address, Obama called for an hourly rate increase to $9 an hour by 2015. Well, who wouldn’t like to make more money an hour? Everyone would love to earn more money. However, there is a real big problem with minimum wages laws (see what happened in American Samoa).

“Minimum wage increases lead to higher unemployment among high school graduates, though, and significantly increase unemployment for the least skilled, least educated workers. The minimum wage may be a well-intentioned public policy, but it often hurts the workers most in need of help.”

We cannot allow the government to continue pushing for these destructive policies. The Declaration of Independence states that we “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” By our consent we instituted our government to “secure these rights.” Our economic freedom is under attack. These government policies are attacking our economic liberty and happiness and it needs to stop.

It’s time for us to use the system established by our Founders to reclaim our freedoms. Explain the fallacies of these policies to your friends and families. Spread the message of liberty to everyone you come in contact with. Contact your elected representatives. Make your voices heard.