Like Saving Ten Cents on a Trip to the Moon
Dennis Miller interviews Thomas E. Woods, Jr., author of ‘Rollback,’ who takes a closer look at Obama’s new budget.
Taxes and Spending
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Government is Responding to the Crisis—Run for Your Life!
The Mises Circle in Houston, Texas. Sponsored by Jeremy S. Davis. Recorded 22 January 2011.
Don’t Buy Government Bonds
When the state spends more money than it receives in taxes — a fact indelibly written into the bond — it is deliberately committing an act of bankr
Classical Liberalism and the Single Tax on Land
The famous physiocratic tenet that only land is productive must be considered bizarre and absurd.
Classical Liberalism and the Single Tax on Land
The famous physiocratic tenet that only land is productive must be considered bizarre and absurd. It is certainly a tremendous loss of insight compared to Cantillon, who identified land and labor as original productive factors, and entrepreneurs as the motors of the market economy.
The Reality of the Tax Deal
The issue is whether current tax rates — which had been in place since 2003 — would stay the same, or whether they would go up in 2011. From this perspective, then, this has been a debate over a tax hike, not a tax cut.
Terminus on the Road to Serfdom
Benjamin Franklin once remarked that the only certain things in life are death and taxes. Modern entitlement programs have created a situation in which efforts to avoid death will make tax burdens unbearable.
Raising Taxes Is Not Reducing Government Spending
The fundamental question is, who is the owner of the funds paid in taxes? Is it the citizens, who have earned the funds and who turn them over under threat of being fined or imprisoned — or even killed — or is it the government?
