What Ludwig von Mises Taught Gottfried Haberler and Paul Samuelson about Tax Loopholes

Tax loopholes are universally denounced across the political spectrum. Democrats revile them as egregious giveaways to the “rich” that should all be tightly sealed up in the interests of “revenue enhancement” for deficit reduction, infrastructure investment, propping up collapsing entitlement programs, etc. Republicans condemn them as major barriers to the implementation of a more business- and investor-friendly flat tax.

Mises.org in the Classroom

A teacher writes:
I am teaching an AP US History class and we are discussing the tariff controversies of the 1820s. I wanted to discuss the Harrisburg Convention of 1827 and looked for some quick references. Nothing in the Britannica hard copy, nothing on Wikipedia. I then searched the Mises.org website and found a 22-page article on PDF by W. Kesler Jackson from The Libertarian Papers (2010). Many thanks to the Ludwig von Mises Institute for making this type of free market publication available.

The Marxian Doctrine of “Ideology”

Even Marx must dimly recognize that not “material productive forces,” not even “classes,” act in the real world, but only individual consciousness and individual choice. Even in the Marxian analysis, each class, or the individuals within it, must become conscious of its “true” class interests in order to act upon pursuing or achieving them. To Marx, each individual’s thinking, his values and theories, are all determined, not by his personal self-interest, but by the interest of the class to which he supposedly belongs.

Inflation

Unfortunately, some people prefer to attribute the cause of inflation not to an increase in the quantity of money but to the rise in prices.
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