Taxes and Spending

It's an illusion and a fraud that there is any stable system between productive capitalism and impoverishing socialism, argues Tibor Machan.

In an interview with Mises.org, a leading German classical liberal explains how the government botched unification.

Jesse Ventura, Governor of Minnesota, took a position that is extremely rare in state government. He said that neither the state nor the city nor any other unit of government should spend any money on funding yet another municipal ballpark or providing a taxpayer subsidy to professional ball teams and their media flunkies. "The taxpayers shouldn't have to foot the bill for new stadiums," said Ventura.

How the lottery is being used to swell the public sector, and why the gambling industry is going along. 

Edmund S. Phelps is no right-wing extremist. Quite the contrary, he stands at the center of Keynesian orthodoxy in economics. 

If we really want to take an opinion poll on taxes, the easiest way would be make them non-mandatory for one year. Give everyone the choice of paying them or not paying, with no penalties or rewards either way. What would happen? Washington would quickly have to close up shop.

Making splashy headlines, the National Marriage Project of Rutgers University reported this summer that marriage rates are at an historic low. Americans are waiting longer to get married and are choosing alternative arrangements to marriage. Data showing that divorce is on the decline turn out to be more complicated: people are taking fewer risks with marriage in the first place. In thirty years, the percentage of adults living as a partner in marriage has slipped from 68 to 56.

The errors of the VH-1 campaign for public-school music programs. (Commentary by Greg Davis) 

The truth about the newest fiscal gimmicks to come out of Washington. (Commentary by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)

The cities and towns Clinton visited do not suffer from "neglect" so much as too much attention from the political class. (Commentary by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.)