Mises Daily

Just what accounts for the people's love affair with government?

On the face of it, who can object to the Supreme Court's decision that permits wine consumers to buy directly from out-of-state wineries? This is just the free market at work. The state laws that prohibited the practice were nothing but a legal leftover from prohibition days and a mercantilist privilege granted to politically powerful distributors who thought only of their monopoly.

Many commentators say that there is more than enough savings to support future growth. But Frank Shostak says there is a problem with this view.

Although the FairTax would eliminate the filing of all individual tax returns, writes Laurence Vance, the FairTax turns every business into a tax collector.

Mark Thornton asks: Why did Anakin go over to the dark side? This is a crucial question and because we see the dark side all too often in government.

The more you think about the incoherent Bush Social Security plan, writes Bob Murphy, the more you realize what a hoax it is.

Richard Cantillon was the first person to invent economic method and to provide a theoretical model for understanding the economy, writes Mark Thornton, but his contributions have never been fully appreciated, until now.

Two years after the Iraq War was declared largely over, hostilities continue, spending mounts, and the very rationale for the war has been utterly and completely demolished, writes Grant Nülle.

People have long accused the great liberal tradition of a dogmatic attachment to peace. It would appear that this is precisely what is necessary in order to preserve the freedom necessary for all of us to find true meaning in our lives.

Blaming OPEC has been in political fashion for over three decades, writes Chris Westley.