Big Government

The federal income tax is the crown jewel of a massive welfare-warfare state.

Antitrust populists claimed blocking the Spirit–JetBlue merger would protect competition and consumers. But their effort led to an intervention that strengthened the very oligopoly they set out to fight.

States like California are learning this in real time, as high-income earners relocate in response to rising tax pressure and growing fiscal uncertainty.

Antitrust populists claimed blocking the Spirit–JetBlue merger would protect competition and consumers. But their effort led to an intervention that strengthened the very oligopoly they set out to fight.

The system does not break all at once; it wears down slowly, through a steady loss of purchasing power that households are already beginning to feel.

The regulatory state is also the entity that stifles competition, reduces economic cooperation, and impedes the production of wealth.

The dearth of child-bearing in western countries like the US is seen as a political crisis. Yet, if there is any place in our lives where government should stay out, it is in the area of childbirth.

The dearth of child-bearing in western countries like the US is seen as a political crisis. Yet, if there is any place in our lives where government should stay out, it is in the area of childbirth.

The right of self-determination is the right of the inhabitants of every territory to decide on the state to which they wish to belong.

We are told that it takes “eternal vigilance” to protect our freedom. But what if the entity taking away our freedom has the weapons and the “law” on its side?