Taxes and Spending

This essay originally appeared in the Review of Austrian Economics 7, No. 2 (1994), pp.

In 1918, the Soviet Union became the first country to promise universal “cradle-to-grave” healthcare, writes Yuri N. Maltsev.

Jefferson County's experience with the occupational tax illustrates Henry Hazlitt's differentiation between good and bad economists.

The lizard part of our brains pushes aside the cognitive areas when we make investment decisions.

Every dollar spent on the military is a dollar not spent or invested in the civilian economy.

A Rothbardian perspective shows that even many of today's free-market economists concede too much to the government when discussing tax reform.

In many ways the United States' foreign policy is much like that winter snowball game.

Populists didn't think their income-tax gadget would ever be used to "soak the poor."

The Georgists continue to raise questions that need answering. A point-by-point examination of single-tax theory is long overdue.