Matthew Bankert

Articles

How School Districts Put Politics Before Children

11/02/2019 Mises Wire Matthew Bankert

School boards are political institutions often more interested in social policy than in education.

11/28/2017 Mises Wire Matthew Bankert

Claiming that tax cuts impose a cost on society assumes the government is the rightful owner of all our wealth and incomes.

Public Servants: Who is Serving Whom?

05/08/2016 Mises Wire Matthew Bankert

Public servants on average are paid better than their private sector taxpaying counterparts. How exactly are they our "servants"?

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