While some taxes are worse than others, there is no good tax. All taxes distort production, depress economic growth, and punish producers and consumers. It's also true that different kinds of taxes affect production and punish people in different ways.
Karen De Coster takes apart the very strange claim, made by Patricia Ireland of NOW, that tax cuts are bad for women.
Will the free market underproduce roads? Not a chance. Chris Westley explains how government intervention causes traffic congestion.
History is never as clear-cut as it is taught in public schools, but in this instance, something very strange is afoot. Tibor Machan discusses new revelations on nineteenth-century American history.
In choosing whether tax cuts should be big or small, will the U.S. follow the path of Germany's Ludwig Erhard or of the socialists in Britain? Gregory Bresiger explains what's at issue.
Tax cuts are great, but there is a missing element in Bush's budget: any attempt to cut outlays. New spending must be paid for somehow, someday, writes Frank Shostak.
Bush's tax cut proposal is way too modest. Here's James Ostrowski's plan for a $21 trillion tax cut. It would not only get the economy going; it would restore a free market.
President Bush stands accused of using his supposedly superhuman powers to drive us into recession. William Anderson wonders whether he will also be accused of casting spells to bring down the Dow.
Traffic is a powerful and persuasive argument against the domestic and international drug war. Review and critique by Dale Steinreich.
Socialists like Bernie Sanders are pushing rebates as a substitute for tax cuts. William Anderson explains that the idea is morally and economically bankrupt.
