Taxes and Spending

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

The first step on this road to lesser government and greater freedom is to see the VAT for the swindle that it is, and to send it down to defeat.

The recent actions by the preservation commission against a private-property owner are nothing less than aggressive theft by a third party.