When it Comes to Spending, the US Is a Typical Western Welfare State
There is no bright line that divides the allegedly "free-market" US from the "socialist" welfare states of Western Europe.
Taxes and Spending
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Don’t Confuse “Private” Prisons with Free-Market Prisons
"Private" prisons are really just taxpayer-funded, monopolistic agents for the state. There is nothing free market about them.
Clinton’s Pay-to-Play Is the Natural Consequence of Big Government
When donors give big bucks to the Clinton Foundation, they may just be paying the price of doing business in a highly regulated economy.
Millennials Love Free Markets, But Don’t Understand Them
How is it possible for Millennials to favor both a socialist government and a capitalist economy? It is simple, they don't truly understand the concepts.
How Back-to-School Shopping Is like American Politics
As 2016's campaign unpleasantness has accelerated, many Americans were going through another often-unpleasant experience: back-to-school shopping.
Dear Gary Johnson, There Is No “Free-Market” Carbon Tax
Calling an arbitrary government-imposed penalty on carbon a "market cost" is a disingenuous as not calling such a plan a "tax."
We Can’t Live on Borrowed Time and Borrowed Money Forever
It is a time of fiscal hedonism, engineered and encouraged by governments and their central banks, and sold to us as banal public policy and tinkering.
The Fallacy of the ‘Third Way’
American Amnesia is a work of propaganda, not of scholarly inquiry. It is simply an un-serious rehashing of old arguments in favor of interventionism.
Never a Dull Moment
[ From the Introduction by Justin Raimondo.] Murray Rothbard was a true polymath. He wasn’t just the number one theoretician of the modern libertarian movement — author of the monumental Man, Economy, and State; Conceived in Liberty, a four...
The Pharma-Fed Doctor
It is true that perks from pharma companies influence doctors. But pharma dollars are nothing compared to the subsidies doled out by governments.
