Nobody can solve the U.S. health care crisis. More specifically, by electing Nobody and putting Nobody in charge, we can (1) ensure that everyone can afford to buy ample medical services and (2) lower the price of health care while (3) not interfering with individual health care choices.

On what basis can we say that?

• The U.S. government does many things to keep health care costs high and is, in fact, the principal reason health care costs are so high.
• The U.S. government also does many things to make health care financially inaccessible by impoverishing people and is, in fact, the principal reason people are impoverished.
• Abolishing the U.S. government fixes that.

More specifically, abolishing the U.S. government (which is to say abolishing the status of the U.S. government as a monopoly of law) would:

1. Stop offering protection to patents and copyrights.
2. Eliminate hospital accrediting and professional licensing rules, leaving a variety of flexible, competing market-based certification systems to do the job.
3. Limit malpractice awards to actual damages plus the costs of recovery (including reasonable legal fees) through market competition among arbitrators of malpractice suits.
4. Get rid of regulations that prevent the sale of insurance across state lines and prevent the operation of what amount to insurance plans by health professionals.
5. Get rid of the link between employment and insurance fostered by the tax code.
6. Replace the FDA approval process with alternative, voluntary private certification systems.
7. Eliminate agricultural subsidies.
8. Eliminate licensing, zoning, and related restrictions that keep people from starting small, low-capital businesses.
9. Eliminate rules that prevent poor people from entering business regarded as off-limits (like selling non-approved pharmaceuticals—which could be certified by voluntary, non-state certification services).
10. Eliminate rules that force poor people to choose between a) the kind of housing middle-class planners and neighborhood busybodies prefer or b) no housing at all.
11. Eliminate import duties.
12. Eliminate the tax burden and government spending.
13. Eliminate state limitations on collective bargaining, including compulsory arbitration requirements, prohibitions on secondary boycotts, back-to-work orders, and state Right-to-Work Laws (which prohibit employers from making voluntary contracts with unions).

So, everything will be a lot better with Nobody in the Oval Office and Nobody in Congress. If health care is important to you, Vote for Nobody!

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See also — Health Care: An Anarchist Approach, by Gary Chartier

Police misconduct in the United States amounts to an undeclared war on the American people. The 2010 Annual Report of the National Police Misconduct Statistics and Reporting Project (NPMSRP) reports “From January 2010 through December 2010 [NPMSRP] recorded . . .”

• 4,861 – Unique reports of police misconduct tracked
• 6,613 – Number of sworn law enforcement officers involved (354 were agency leaders such as chiefs or sheriffs)
• 6,826 – Number of alleged victims involved
• 247 – Number of fatalities associated with tracked reports
• $346,512,800 – Estimated amount spent on misconduct-related civil judgments and settlements excluding sealed settlements, court costs, and attorney fees.

Those statistics only deal with a tiny slice of the overall problem. The vast bulk of the brutality, injustice, oppression and outright looting committed against Americans by those allegedly there to “serve and protect” them comes not from deviation from official policies by individual officers but from adherence to those policies.

• An arrest for a victimless crime is better understood as a kidnapping carried out under color of law, for example — and, in 2010, there were 1.6 million of those as a result of drug laws alone.
• Also in 2010, nearly $1.8 billion was looted from the American people on account of police willingness to do so in response to drug allegations.
• Also notable is that all of these acts are carried out by police who are paid with money involuntarily taken from Americans who will also face property seizures and potential forcible abductions by police, possibly even involving lethal use of force, if they do not pay.

Police, then, amount to an abusive army of occupation Americans are afflicted with.

The notion of serving and protecting the security of Americans is a worthy goal, but it is the position of the Vote for Nobody Campaign that the problems of unofficial and official police misconduct procede from a structural incentive problem with government itself that just happens to be at a pretty advanced stage in United States.

Police are a monopoly. Monopoly promotes abuse. To abolish a monopoly is to open the market up to competition — with no legal barriers to entry for profit-making firms, participating non-profits or informal mutual aid networks. This rather precise understanding of anarchist revolution as market development overtaking government would introduce outside, third-party accountability where none exists now (despite valiant efforts at present to introduce a small degree of accountability for police misconduct).

If you want the problem of police misconduct addressed, realize that Nobody will fix it, putting Nobody in charge is the only way to fix it and electing Nobody is the only way forward. Vote for Nobody!

The U.S. national debt and its interest payments are crippling the U.S. economy and promise only financial armageddon in the future. Nobody can fix the U.S. national debt. Electing Nobody is the only realistic way to address this problem.

The absolutely non-negotiable, 100% must-do priority of repudiating the U.S. national debt necessarily implies anarchism. Consider . . .

• If we’re going to have a revolution, any successor state would still be on the hook for that debt, which means it would still come out of the hides of the American people.
• If the existing state or a future state repudiates the national debt, that will cripple their ability to borrow money in the future. You have to make a break from an economy dependent on government spending in order for repudiation to be a viable option.
• To make that break completely, and you’re going to have to due to the size of the problem at this point, you have to get rid of government, period.

It wouldn’t even matter if we somehow raised Washington, Jefferson, Adams and all the rest of the U.S. Founders from the dead. You just can’t make “small government” work — at this point, anyway, just in an accounting sense. It’s fascism and decline or anarchy and a new renaissance. That choice lies with the American people. If they elect Nobody, there will be a brighter future.