Taxes and Spending

It should come as a monumental embarrassment to future social scientists to observe that their mainstream predecessors were worse than useless for

Social Security is right now in deficit, sucking funds out of the general pool. Americans should brace for further tax hikes — in the name of "saving Social Security" — and anyone under 40 should have no illusions about retirement benefits.

With so many state governments’ budgets now under severe strain, there are serious discussions about how to cut state funding to public educa

"Meanwhile, states that do not reward being poor find poverty levels falling."

Not only have they been mobilized for libertarian action and educated in libertarian ideas, including opposition to the public schools and the idea that taxation is theft, but the politicians have begun to knuckle under to their vociferous demands and actions.

In the early 1700s, France turned on the taps of paper-money inflation.

The supporters of socialized healthcare dream that everything will remain the same, except that someone else will pay the bill.

The average range of tuition inflation is normally 8% annually, and prices have not fallen or stabilized once since 1977, regardless of economic cl

As the economic aspect of state absolutism, mercantilism was of necessity a system of state-building, of big government, of heavy royal expenditure

While Montaigne paved the way for the dominance of absolutist thought in France, surely the founder or at least the locus classicus of 16th-century