Taxes and Spending

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Lee Friday

It turns out that workforce participation drops off significantly once it becomes possible to live off a government pension instead. Thus, pension policies have placed an enormous burden on those who still have to work.

Mark Hendrickson

MMT boils down to government using its monopoly over money to dictate and control production, obliterate free markets, suppress private enterprise, and impoverish the people.

José Niño

The Green New Deal blames cattle for creating too many greenhouse emissions. Presumably, the solution lies in allowing the federal government to dictate the number of cows allowed on farms and ranches. This wouldn't be the first time we've seen such a scheme.

Claudio Grass

Germany’s role as the locomotive and economic leader of the entire bloc has been crucial for the last decade.

Aayush Priyank

Governments take on a variety of responsibilities as a justification for greatly expanding powers — claiming these powers are necessary to fulfill these new responsibilities.

C.Jay Engel

Usually, in the marketplace, the billionaire gets his billions when he provides a service that enormous numbers of people are willing to voluntarily pay money for.

Robert P. Murphy

The "distinguished economists" advocating for a carbon tax are misleading the American public on several key points. 

George Ford Smith

The Hamiltonians foisted a central bank on the people of the United States at the first opportunity. But Thomas Paine wasn't fooled.

Mark Brandly

Spending $12 billion per day is not a shutdown. Spending 7% less than you spent last year is not a shutdown.

Robert P. Murphy

The "Green New Deal" is aptly named, in the sense that the original New Deal was a massive boondoggle that restricted liberty and crippled the economy.