Taxes and Spending

There are many reasons for the decline of the family, lifestyle choice among them, writes Per Henrik Hansen.

Erich Mattei explains that reformist measures do not address the fundamental problem afflicting the nations waterways: river socialism. 

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.

Adam Young says that Robin Hood was a friend of the overtaxed, overregulated, and overgoverned masses.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cross-posted at Liberty & Power blog.

Recorded at Mises University 2003.