The zero-interest-rate tax strips the interest income from savers and hands it to government, and morally justifies this as stimulating the economy through deficit funding.

In his twelve essays, Bastiat methodically reveals the fallacies in the established political doctrine of his day by identifying what proponents failed to consider (the unseen) in the policies they advocated.

Murphy skillfully reminds us that the politicians who seek to suppress our economic and political liberties in favor of a central plan are neither omniscient nor benevolent.

At the YAF convention in St. Louis, I organized the draft-card burning — an event many regard as the birth of the modern libertarian movement.

Competition is not a mode of conduct that anyone has to promote institutionally. It develops naturally and necessarily among persons who are free to pursue their own interests.

Depending on the specific plan and other variables such as location, the healthcare plan amounts to a direct labor tax of approximately $300 per month for an individual, or nearly $700 for family coverage.

If men do not grow in their knowledge of life and in their intelligent judgment of the rules of right living as rapidly as they gain control over physical resources, they will not win happiness at all.

The book primarily concerns itself with the economic consequences of the strike-threat in our labor market. It also presents a devastating argument for the superiority of the free market.