New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo just approved a $175.5 billion budget, boasting it as the “broadest, most sweeping state plan that we have done.” Hoping to spend $19.6 billion on Medicaid and healthcare alone, a 3.6 percent raise from last year, New York’s lawmakers also passed a new “mansion tax,” targeting properties worth more than $2 million. In
Governments have too much power over people. But most of us can’t truly grasp how deep this power goes until our lives are completely changed by a new policy. Three years after President Obama lessened travel restraints to Cuba, the Trump administration imposed new restrictions for American tourists. This new policy impacts private and corporate
Socialism never stopped enticing young American minds. But the more Democratic Socialists such as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez open their mouths, we learn the movement’s most vocal proponents simply ignore socialism’s incompatibility with democracy, as demonstrated by Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises in A Critique of Interventionism . Sen. Bernie
Social Security is going bust, a report released by trustees of the federal government’s entitlement programs claims. And without more money being poured into the system, the report argues, tens of millions of Americans will receive only three-quarters of their Social Security benefits in the near future. But even if trustees hadn’t figured that
California isn’t nicknamed Commiefornia for nothing. Decades of limited housing, water use restrictions, overzealous environmental regulations, and now a rapidly increasing minimum wage make it difficult for entrepreneurs. But despite it all, businesses are adapting, shifting investments away from personnel and toward automation. Robots, at an
El gobernador de Nueva York, Andrew Cuomo, acaba de aprobar un presupuesto de $ 175,5 mil millones, y lo califica como el «plan estatal más amplio que hemos hecho». Con la esperanza de gastar $ 19,6 mil millones solo en Medicaid y atención médica, un aumento del 3,6% en comparación con el año pasado, los legisladores de Nueva York también
El Estado tiene demasiado poder sobre las personas. Pero la mayoría de nosotros no podemos comprender realmente cuán profundo es este poder hasta que nuestras vidas son completamente cambiadas por una nueva política. Tres años después de que el presidente Obama redujera las restricciones para viajar a Cuba, la administración Trump impuso nuevas
El Seguro Social está en quiebra, un informe publicado por los fideicomisarios de las reclamaciones de los programas de derechos del gobierno federal. Y si no se invierte más dinero en el sistema, argumenta el informe, decenas de millones de estadounidenses recibirán sólo tres cuartas partes de sus beneficios de Seguro Social en el futuro cercano.
California no es apodada Commiefornia por nada. Décadas de viviendas limitadas, restricciones en el uso del agua, regulaciones ambientales demasiado estrictas y ahora un salario mínimo que aumenta rápidamente dificultan las cosas para los empresarios. Pero a pesar de todo, las empresas se están adaptando, desplazando las inversiones del personal
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The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.