Taxes and Spending

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.

"Why is it that people who rightly criticize the income tax are so quick to accept a national sales tax on consumption?"

"If carbon dioxide is classified as a pollutant, then every breath we take can be regulated by government." That sums it up perfectly.

The oft-used cliché in response to harsh criticisms of the country or its government is "If you don't like it, you can leave." Republicans made it much more difficult for disgruntled citizens to follow this advice; it is time to repeal this profligate legislation.

Do we already have inflation in the pipeline? I think so.

As the president signs the trillion-dollar stimulus package into law, financial networks are abuzz with investment pundits speculating on what comp

In their zeal to oppose the lunacy of the so-called “stimulus” plan, many radio talk show hosts and other pundits have fallen into the

Presented as part of the Mises Institute’s Brown Bag Seminar series on October 16, 1996 in Auburn, Alabama.

What we need are real lasting tax cuts and a corresponding movement of spending out of government and into the private sector.