Taxes and Spending
100 Years of Medical Robbery
Dale Steinreich explains the twin goals of the AMA-shaped medical industry: artificially elevated incomes and worship by patients.
The Silent Partner in Family Decline
There are many reasons for the decline of the family, lifestyle choice among them, writes Per Henrik Hansen.
The Rivers Run Through It
Erich Mattei explains that reformist measures do not address the fundamental problem afflicting the nations waterways: river socialism.
The Saga of South Africa’s Economy
Harry Valentine writes that South Africa's long term economic future appears bleak due to the policies that the nation's government has already enacted.
Robin Hood, Friend of Liberty
Adam Young says that Robin Hood was a friend of the overtaxed, overregulated, and overgoverned masses.
Snowdrifts of Debt
The US government is the world's largest debtor with deficits feeding debts that pile on in increasingly larger numbers of numbing proportions, writes Christopher Mayer.
Why High Gas Prices?
The government has no business stockpiling anything, including oil. But when three socialist amigos like Senators Charles Schumer of New York, Barbara Boxer of California and Harry Reid of Nevada all urged the Bush administration recently to help ease gasoline prices by releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), you know what's up. These three are all facing the voters come November, and they know from their many years in politics that nothing agitates the boobeoisie and engenders conspiracy theories like high gas prices.
Snowdrifts of Debt
Debt is an institution in American government, long established and widespread. A cursory glance at debt statistics will quickly show that there has been a lull in the truth about debt, namely, that it cannot grow indefinitely at the rate at which it has been growing—at least not without a serious revaluation of the dollar, something we are already in the midst of seeing.
A Rite of Spring
William Anderson examines the common myths of the gas price increase, and then turns to the question of why prices are as high as they are.