Big Government

Our taxes are due today. It‘s a reminder that we must get past the tax reformers’ favorite ploy of revenue neutrality.

It is not just the future generation who bears the burden of increased government debt, but the current generation who pay the interest to the banks and corporations through higher taxes and higher price inflation.

An enduring progressive myth is that racial and religious minorities can only make economic gains if government "levels the playing field." The historical record demonstrates, however, that free markets offer the best opportunities for people in minority groups.

With many in the ruling classes violently reacting to DOGE, one figures that Elon Musk might be on the right path. He could learn much more about the dead hand of government if he were to read Ludwig von Mises.

From Paul Ehrlich to Bill Gates, prominent Americans have forecast doom through “overpopulation.” Although the Great Population Disaster has never occurred, that does not discourage the usual suspects from crying wolf.

The federal government didn't take charge of immigration policy until the 1880s. In the early republic, almost everyone agreed that immigration policy was a matter for the states.

Although he has temporarily suspended his threatened tariffs, President Trump‘s demands for “fair trade” make no sense economically speaking. Trump‘s demands of Vietnam alone are beyond head-scratching.

Five years ago, covid madness descended upon the ruling elites, pushing a public health totalitarianism that destroyed lives and impoverished millions of Americans. And the ruling classes still are lying about what they did.

Organizations like the European Union and the United Nations are inventions of government elites and are designed to serve the interests of government elites. They centralize political power and do nothing to advance peace or freedom.

Totalitarian bureaucracy necessitates a constant state of crisis and there is no better creator of crises than imperial machinations.