This morning on CNN Jack Cafferty was a bit exercised over reports that more and more companies are not only refusing to hire smokers, they’re firing them. They’re getting fired not for smoking on the job .. but for just being smokers.
Property Rights
The right to refuse any person from entering your home. You can do that for any reason or no reason. You may hate smoke yet allow smokers in your house. You may love smoke yet not allow smokers in your house. Even irrationality does not keep you from exercising your property rights.
You own a business, it is your property. If you want to hire employees they have to agree to your terms and you agree to theirs. It’s called free association. Either one is free to walk away and not associate. Both the employer and employee must agree to associate before employment can begin. No person is held captive. Free association is also the freedom to not associate. The employee is free to quit the job — for any reason or no reason. The employer is free to fire an employee for any reason or no reason.
His answer:
So, if this is true, how can the governments go into private business’s and make them go smoke free?
It’s called bad law. Bogus law. Fraud.
How did individuals and society increasingly proper last year, last decade, and for several generations prior to this years new laws and the new laws of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s and most laws created for a hundred years prior?
Parasitical politicians and bureaucrats create boogieman problems — non-problems.– in order to proclaim they are solving problems. They do that to usurp power and garner unearned paychecks. Politicians and bureaucrats are the problem — people at liberty wielding science and business are the solution.
Property rights and free association. Property owners may ban smokers or permit smokers on their property. That government and many people on these threads don’t believe in property rights is obvious.
Many people defend property rights when it suits their needs but turn around and argue against property rights when it suits their needs. Unfortunately, most people don’t understand that the issue is property rights and free association so they argue almost everything but The Point.
The Point: protect and defend property rights and free association.
