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Murray N. Rothbard

There has been far too much concentration on the form of taxation and not enough on its total amount.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

The political class is trying to pull the wool over your eyes. Government spending and debt are just as important as taxes.

Ludwig von Mises

Mises explains why government intervention fails yet continues on.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

After World War I, conservatism was transformed from an antiegalitarian, antistatist ideological force into a movement of culturally conservative statists: the right wing of the socialists and social democrats.

Roy Cordato

Environmental economics is steeped in standard neoclassical theories of efficiency and Pigouvian welfare economics. That's a problem. 

Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr.

So long as there are governments with stones ready to throw, there will be a need for someone to point out that destruction is never productive, never beneficial, and never a path to the good life that we all seek.

Laurence M. Vance

Laurence Vance explains that Mises's writings criticize both theism and atheism insofar as they are guilty of conflating economic fallacy and divine will.

Ben O'Neill

Socialists once argued that socialism would best capitalism in terms of wealth creation. Now they don't say capitalism leads us to poverty but to too much wealth.

Carl Menger

Carl Menger, from his classic treatise, on the origins of the means of payment.

Greg Davis

Ignorant politicians who create no wealth can only impede great visionaries like Henry M. Galt from creating wealth with monetary chicanery, antitrust litigation, labor laws, and other regulatory measures.