Taxes and Spending

The bottom line is that, for today's 21-year-old, Social Security is a negative return.

"Because there is no link between the 'revenue' acquired by government agencies and the costs they incur, there is no way of utilizing the yardstick of profitability to evaluate whether agencies are performing a useful function."

Jeffrey Tucker interviews Tom Woods on the topic of the forthcoming online Mises Academy course, “The New Deal: History, Economics, and Law,&

In defense of tax loopholes and other things that horrify “mainstream” economists. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Some 40,000 people perish each year on U.S.

Problems of international development aid and the domestic welfare state. Recorded at Mises University 2010.

Critical examination of the claim that justification for taxation is that there is a market failure regarding public goods and externalities.

Why government is inherently wealth-destroying, compared to free-market entrepreneurship, the source of wealth creaton.

The rich can indeed help us all, not by spending but by being thrifty and even miserly for as long as necessary to fix what the government has broken.

The horror of starvation no longer terrifies men living in a capitalist society.