Taxes and Spending

Education in America

Tags: Big Government, Education, Taxes and Spending, U.S. History

07/15/1969 • George Charles Roche III

From the author: Increasing numbers of Americans express concern over the deterioration of modem society, accurately pinpointing various failings-social, political, and economic. Most of us are far better at discovering shortcomings than...

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Tariffs: A Study in Method

Tags: Global Economy, Taxes and Spending

01/27/1968 • T.E.G. Gregory

It will not be necessary in the course of this work to devote very much space to what may be termed the antiquities of the customs, although we may occasionally require historical material for illustrative purposes. The object of the volume is...

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Income Tax: The Root of All Evil

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07/20/1954 • Frank Chodorov

Frank Chodorov was an extraordinary thinker and writer, and hugely influential in the 1950s. He wrote what became an American classic arguing that the income tax, more than any other legislative change in American history, made it possible to...

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The Tariff Idea

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02/15/1953 • W. M. Curtiss

Tariffs are only one of the many restrictions to trade throughout the world. For many years, they were perhaps the most important restriction; but more recently, their importance has been overshadowed by such modern- innovations as exchange...

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The TVA Idea

Tags: Big Government, Taxes and Spending

06/15/1949 • Dean Russell

From the author: The issue of government ownership of the means of production is no longer open to discussion in Russia. That issue was decisively settled by revolution. The issue of government ownership of the means of production is still open...

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4.4. Unlimited Dependence on the Discretion of Government Bureaus

Tags: Interventionism, Big Government, The Entrepreneur, Taxes and Spending

05/02/1944 • Ludwig von Mises

In the bureaucratic environment the entrepreneur must resort to two means: diplomacy and bribery.

4.2. Interference with the Height of Profit

Tags: Interventionism, Production Theory, The Entrepreneur, Taxes and Spending

05/02/1944 • Ludwig von Mises

The virtue of the profit system is that it puts on improvements a premium high enough to act as an incentive to take high risks.

Too Much Government, Too Much Taxation

Tags: Big Government, Taxes and Spending

07/22/1923 • Charles Normon Fay

From the author: This book is written to convince others, as I myself am convinced, quietly and without hysteria, that already, after but 146 years of national life, we Americans must face the same old fight with Too Much Government and Too Much...

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Our Money and the State

Tags: Big Government, Money and Banks, Taxes and Spending

08/25/1917 • Hartley Withers

This book grew out of a course of lectures on Public Finance delivered at the London School of Economics in February and March. The subject had already been dealt with ably and fully by writers who had made a special study of it; but the present...

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Tariff History of the United States

Tags: Taxes and Spending, U.S. Economy, U.S. History

06/15/1890 • F.W. Taussig

The Mises Institute has completely re-typeset F.W. Taussig’s definitive work on the tariffs of the 19th century in the United States, a history that in some sense is the most important ever written because it was so decisive in leading to the...

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