Taxes and Spending
What Soviet Medicine Teaches Us
In 1918, the Soviet Union became the first country to promise universal “cradle-to-grave” healthcare, writes Yuri N. Maltsev.
A Crimson Tax Tide
Jefferson County's experience with the occupational tax illustrates Henry Hazlitt's differentiation between good and bad economists.
Herding Lizards
The lizard part of our brains pushes aside the cognitive areas when we make investment decisions.
Military Spending and Bastiat’s “Unseen”
Every dollar spent on the military is a dollar not spent or invested in the civilian economy.
Mankiw vs. Rothbard on Tax Reform
A Rothbardian perspective shows that even many of today's free-market economists concede too much to the government when discussing tax reform.
The Snowball of Empire
In many ways the United States' foreign policy is much like that winter snowball game.
Soak the Poor
Populists didn't think their income-tax gadget would ever be used to "soak the poor."
The Single Tax: Economic and Moral Implications
The Georgists continue to raise questions that need answering. A point-by-point examination of single-tax theory is long overdue.