As soon as it was revealed, the Trump administration’s framework for tax reform was instantly attacked by Charles Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and friends, trying to bludgeon it to death with assertions that it was just “tax cuts for the rich.” A letter from Senate Democrats said “Tax reform cannot be a cover story for delivering tax cuts to the
On October 11, President Trump tweeted that fake news was such a threat that someone should look into challenging network licenses on that basis. The next day, (October 12) he doubled down in a follow-up tweet that “Network news has become so partisan, distorted and fake that licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate revoked.” Unfortunately,
When unions are in their justifying-their-existence mode, they quickly turn to false claims, such as asserting that higher union wages benefit other workers. In fact, unions actually actually reduce the availability of union jobs, and force workers elsewhere, increasing labor supply and decreasing wages for those jobs. At a more basic level,
November 10 marks the 10th anniversary of the death of someone the Mises Institute has named “one of the giants of the Austrian tradition” — Sylvester Petro. Since 2017 also marks the 100th anniversary of Petro’s birth and the 60th anniversary of his best-known book, The Labor Policy of the Free Society , described as “the definitive Austrian
As happens every time any sort of tax change that can be demonized as “tax cuts for the rich” is proposed, the Trump administration’s framework for tax reform has been met with “tax me more” virtue signaling. The latest installment I have seen was “I’m a billionaire. Tax me more,” in the October 6 Los Angeles Times . There billionaire Tom Steyer
Most people who have been trying to advance liberty for some time know of Leonard Read . Creator of the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE) in 1946, and bedrock of the first libertarian think-tank, he thought, talked and wrote about it for decades. Yet because he was so closely associated with FEE, and published his many books through it, his
John Dickinson (1732-1808) was one of the most important of America’s founders. He was a colonial legislator, member of the Stamp Act, Continental, and Confederation Congresses, chief executive of both Delaware (by a 25 to 1 vote; his being the only opposed) and Pennsylvania, president of the 1786 Annapolis convention that led to the
With the ending of Democratic Party dominance of politics in many state capitols, right-to-work (RTW) laws, which ban conditioning employment on the payment of union dues, are on a roll. Kentucky, Missouri, and West Virginia have recently adopted them, raising the total to 28 states. Unions have demonized RTW laws as unfair. However, it is hard
Recientemente, la teórica política de Harvard, Danielle Allen, escribía en el Washington Post sobre “ La expresión más importante en el juramento de fidelidad He ”: “con libertad y justicia para todos”. Allen reconocía que la justicia requiere “igualdad ante la ley” y que la libertad existe “solo cuando es para todos”. Pero confundía democracia
Los intereses especiales que dominan la política producen una forma de bienestar económico. Cuanto más pueden algunos manipular la maquinaria política, más pueden preparar sus propios unidos. Incluso utilizan técnicas similares de propaganda. En tiempo de guerra, siempre nos definimos como los chicos buenos, ennoblecidos por nuestra causa moral.
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