Top 10 Days More Deserving as National Holidays Than Labor Day

It’s Time For a Better Holiday Than Labor Day

by Brett Linley

Aside from the day off, Labor Day isn’t good for very much. Labor unions, understandably, created Labor Day for their own interests. Instead of celebrating these economic-inhibitors, we should be celebrating symbols of freedom. Below are some suggestions for better days we lovers of liberty can truly appreciate.

1. October 10: Publishing Date of Atlas Shrugged

Few novels have inspired more generations of libertarians than Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. As her magnum opus, published in 1957, the book portrays a struggle against collectivists and oppressive government. Freedom-fighters, from Paul Ryan to Ron Paul, have professed the effect the book had on their values. The book draws the line between invasive government and business.

It separates the collectivist from the individual. We should celebrate the publication that set to cast of the parasites of a man’s labor. Instead of holding up those who leech off of individual creativity, we should glorify the creators themselves.