Taxes and Spending

"Gentlemen, you are piling up a heritage of conflict and litigation over water rights, for there is not sufficient water to supply the land." – John Wesley Powell

"It's pointless to try to wade hip-deep into DeLong's calculations, because they are meaningless."

Interviewd by Susan Modaress on PressTV’s “The Autograph,” 14 July 2010. In this episode, Dr.

According to Louis XIV, a king is superhuman, a man who is above all and sees all and is the only one working for the “public” good, wh

Jefferson rejected the Federalist axiom that in order to have peace one must prepare for war — the theory being that the more powerful a country was in armaments the less likely it was to be attacked. Jefferson doubted both the wisdom of this theory and Federalist sincerity in invoking it."

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.