Taxes and Spending

In 2016, candidates are ignoring the issue of social benefits and federal spending. Experience suggests opposing social spending is political suicide.

Politicians and elites viscerally hate any form of tax competition — at least for the plebes.

There is no bright line that divides the allegedly "free-market" US from the "socialist" welfare states of Western Europe.

"Private" prisons are really just taxpayer-funded, monopolistic agents for the state. There is nothing free market about them.

When donors give big bucks to the Clinton Foundation, they may just be paying the price of doing business in a highly regulated economy.

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.

As 2016's campaign unpleasantness has accelerated, many Americans were going through another often-unpleasant experience: back-to-school shopping.

Calling an arbitrary government-imposed penalty on carbon a "market cost" is a disingenuous as not calling such a plan a "tax."

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.

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.