Taxes and Spending

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.

From Power and Market, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

From Power and Market, narrated by Jeff Riggenbach.

The imposition of new taxes shifts wages and prices in ways that are impossible to predict beforehand and difficult to measure even after the fact.

What the protesters do not realize is that the wealth of the 1 percent provides the standard of living of the 99 percent.

The top 1 percent of US income earners pay 38 percent of all federal income taxes, and the top 10 percent pay 70 percent.

It's important to spell out exactly why she's wrong, because her viewpoint is gaining traction among the progressive Left.