The Tax-Reform Racket
Just when the goose starts losing enthusiasm for laying golden eggs, the policy farmers begin to poke them with a tried and true stick: tax reform.
Taxes and Spending
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Rothbard’s Economics of Taxation: Where the Mainstream Went Wrong
Recorded 14 January 2005 at The Trouble with Taxation Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Taxes in American History
Recorded 14 January 2005 at The Trouble with Taxation Conference, Charlottesville, Virginia.
Save or Else
The movement to privatize Social Security, writes Lew Rockwell, is both ideologically duplicitous and fiscally irresponsible.
Distractions in the Social Security Debate
Hans Sennholz discusses the many proposals to reform the program and save it from its demographic failings. Demographics, he argues, are a distraction from the core problems.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
The winners write the history, and the winning states especially so. Thomas Woods, however, sets out to write a primer on American history from a different point of view, one that doesn’t glorify centralization and intervention. The result is...
Abuse of Power
For local government bureaucrats around the country the Fifth Amendment has been stood on its head, with "public use" meaning any private use that generates more tax booty for city hall and "just compensation" meaning whatever the local government goons can steal the property for, writes Doug French.
The Rich Won’t Be Soaked
The middle classes have always been the only dependable source for taxes. If a government really wants revenue, that is where they have to go.
Government: Trafficking in Failure
Economists of an Austrian bent just can't take off their analytical spectacles, writes Mark Thornton, even when undertaking simple life activities like driving from here to there.
