Mises Wire
California and New York Are Even Shaking Down Fleeing Residents
Even though people are leaving California and New York in droves due in large part to their ruinous taxes, the state authorities are tracking these emigrants down and demanding they continue to pay state taxes. Right out of Orwell.
The Results Are In: Free Market Capitalism Improves Lives
Contrary to the drumbeat from political, media, and academic elites, capitalism improves the lives of ordinary people. Socialism receives favorable publicity but fails wherever it is implemented.
Beware of the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act
Should calling attention to war crimes be punishable by jail? You don’t have to be a libertarian to recognize that we can’t have a free society under the censorship this Act would impose.
The Hush-Money Case against Trump Is Ridiculous and Revealing
Despite the media definitions of the Trump trial as a “hush money trial,” the actual criminal charges are contrived and legally unprecedented. This is a show trial.
War Hysteria Fuels New Attacks on Free Speech
Unfortunately, these assaults on the First Amendment continue to find support even among people who pretend to be in support of freedom and opposed to federal power.
Christian Worship of the False God of Politics
Millions of American “evangelical” Christians have been convinced they must be worshipful of Israeli politicians and bureaucrats. Hence the spectacle of evangelical Christians cheerleading the killing of fellow Christians in Gaza by the Israeli state.
Order without the State: Lessons from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s Florida Scrub
Do we need government to referee all of our property disputes? Throughout history, people have peacefully resolved disputes without the help of state authorities.
Thinking Properly about Public Welfare
For most Americans, the debate is about what size the welfare state should be. But why is there a welfare state at all?
How Does Money in Our Possession Acquire Value?
Mainstream economists claim money has purchasing power because the government issuing the money has so declared. That makes no sense.