Taxes and Spending

Recorded at Mises University 2009.

This is not the only instance in which Frank refutes his own arguments. Like most good leftists, Frank dislikes SUVs.

Obama’s stimulus plan is equivalent to a giant welfare scheme.

The Fed is a racket at heart, a con game writ large — what else can you call an organization with the exclusive privilege of printing money in the

By decreasing the real output derived from national resources in this manner, the VAT necessarily decreases the material standard of living for all of a nation's consumers.

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on April 5th, 1995 in Auburn, Alabama.

This is a concise critical history of the federal program of Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI), popularly known as Social Security.

A final insult is how US tax law treats its emigrants from this country. It continues to tax them as if they were lifetime slaves.

Today is Earth day, and a week ago we “celebrated” tax day.

The idea that experts can do a better job of directing the use of resources, including gasoline, than can markets and market prices derives from the faulty assumption that experts know more than the whole of society.