We must all be grateful to Professors Walter J. Blum and Harry J. Kalven, Jr. for providing in a brief space a cogent review and critique of the various arguments for progressive taxation
Traffic congestion reaches into all aspects of living: working, shopping, recreation.
A basic principle of Austrian economics is that the originary rate of interest (the rate of discount of future goods compared to present, otherwise
Given the temper of the times it was surprising that following the American Revolution there appeared proposals for national systems of education.
Were a government to demand the sacrifice of 46,700 citizens’ each year, there is no doubt that an outraged public would revolt.
Robert Nozick, in Anarchy, State, and Utopia presented his by-now-famous view that “a minimal state, limited to the narrow functions
The doctrine of natural liberty is ultimately grounded on two premises which are necessary to the understanding of why governments are “crimi
A characteristic feature of modern civilization is the steady growth of government.1 This government growth occurs under two forms: either through
The municipal reform movement of the progressive era succeeded in establishing local government monopoly in the provision of urban services. Competitive markets in such services as fire-fighting, street lighting, refuse removal, transit, and even policing then gave way to municipal bureaus and departments.
There are those to whom the question of whether to privatize the nation’s police forces is mere academic whimsy—a question of consequence only to t
