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GOP Tax Plan Increases the Most Insidious Tax

Taxes and Spending

Blog11/06/2017Ron Paul

Politicians love the inflation tax because it allows them to increase taxes without having to vote for higher rates.

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George Fitzhugh, the Honest Socialist

SocialismU.S. History

Blog11/04/2017Chris Calton

Fitzhugh accepted the paternalist argument that US slavery had bettered the position of the slave — and then applied this idea to all races.

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Government Enforcers and Group Psychology

Blog10/24/2017Chris Calton

Sometimes, group psychology among government agents can set the stage for abuse.

Gas Station Hold-Up: Thieves Seize $59,000

Legal SystemMoney and BanksThe Police StateMoney and Banking

Blog10/19/2017Joseph T. Salerno

In America, a person convicted of no crime is often deprived of all his money assets, in many cases resulting in the destruction of his business.

Gary Cohn is Concerned about Wall Street Clearinghouses – Blockchain is Already Fixing it

Bureaucracy and RegulationMoney and Banks

Blog10/16/2017Tho Bishop

Helping de-escalate the risk of third party exchanges is, of course, simply one of the many potential applications for blockchain.

Government Regulation and Crony Capitalism is Keeping Thousands in Florida without Power

Cronyism and Corporatism

Blog09/21/2017Tho Bishop

The pain and suffering currently being felt is the direct result of government policy and the perverse incentives of crony capitalism.

Genuine Nullification: Marijuana and the Carolina Doctrine

Legal SystemU.S. History

Blog08/31/2017Zachary Garris

There's a fine line between today's anti-commandeering effort — and what we should regard as bona fide nullification of federal law.

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Germany's New Political Party Is Just Another Big-Government Party

Protectionism and Free TradeWorld History

Blog08/30/2017Kai Weiss

Germany's newest political party once held a banner for free markets. Unfortunately, it's been lately moving very much in the wrong direction.

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The Problem with "Just Do What the Cops Say and You Won't Get Hurt"

Ryan McMaken

Apologists for police abuse often claim that if a citizen complies with police orders and does what he's told, then he won't get hurt. The evidence says otherwise.

Who's to Blame for Normalizing One-Man Rule?

Robert Fellner

Unfortunately, the corporate press and public health officials have determined that unilateral rule by executive decree, unimpeded by any conception of individual freedom, is necessary to respond to the coronavirus.

The Sword of Damocles Hangs over Every Property Owner

Connor Mortell

In his new book, The Great Fiction, Hans-Hermann Hoppe discusses how every property owner now faces the threat of his property being turned into "fiat property" at the whim of the state, at any time.

The Plutocrats of Wall Street and Silicon Valley Are Scamming America

Ryan McMaken

Free market advocates long ago figured out that the monied classes of bankers and Wall Street operatives were exploiting the "little people" to prop up the fortunes of what is now the billionaire class. The scam is alive and well today.

Biden's Amtrak Infrastructure Scam

William L. Anderson

Profit-seeking entrepreneurs move factors of production to their highest and most economical uses. Amtrak, on the other hand, is diverting useful factors of production from higher use values to lower-valued uses. To put it another way, Amtrak is destroying wealth.

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Mark Thornton

Mark Thornton is a Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute and the book review editor of the Quarterly Journal of...