EU’s Taxlandia Game Is Propaganda at Its Finest
Taxlandia Game I’m not a fan of what is sometimes called the “European Project.” Yes, one of the original goals […]
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There Is No Such Thing as Poverty in Hong Kong
There Is No Such Thing as Poverty in Hong Kong One of the great injustices of our age is, as […]
Obamacare Mandate Is a Tax, So the Senate Bill Is Correct
Obamacare Mandate The Washington Post is outraged. The New York Times even more so. Commentators are going nuts. “Using a […]
Occupational Licensing Is Just Another Form of Cronyism
Occupational Licensing Experts in the field of political marketing periodically tell me that you need to have sympathetic victims when […]
Death Tax Needs to Die
Death Tax Needs to Die Since Republicans screwed up Obamacare repeal and haven’t even tried to impose spending restraint, I […]
The Left is Stumped for Fresh Tax Reform Ideas
The Left is Stumped for Fresh Tax Reform Ideas On March 30, 1981, the Times of London published a letter […]
Fed Official Decries Bitcoin as ‘Not Backed’
Fed Official Decries Bitcoin as ‘Not Backed’ Randal K. Quarles, a Trump administration appointee to the Federal Reserve Board of […]
Education Needs to Be Uber-ized
Education Needs to Be Uber-ized Uber revolutionized transportation. Airbnb transformed the lodging and short-term rental space. Netflix was pathbreaking in […]
Retail Stores Are Dying and We Should Let Them
Retail Stores Are Dying Last week, the discount shoe retailer Payless ShoeSource filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and announced it […]
Thanksgiving Was a Triumph of Capitalism over Collectivism
Thanksgiving This time of the year, whether in good economic times or bad, is when we gather with our family […]
Capitalism Doesn’t Care about Women, but It Does Liberate Them
Capitalism Doesn’t Care About Women “Your capitalistic attitude to women,” said the Soviet premier, “does not occur under communism.” Nikita […]
Our Ancestors Escaped Crippling Poverty Because of Capitalism
Our Ancestors Escaped Crippling Poverty Because of Capitalism The free enterprise, or capitalist, system has done more to improve the […]
Your New Mailman Works for Amazon
Your New Mailman Works for Amazon There he was dropping off packages in the mail room. I picked up mine […]
Rich People Don’t Actually ‘Hide’ Their Money
Rich People Don’t Actually ‘Hide’ Their Money Why are Cubans so poor? They’ve done very well in the U.S., where […]
The Deep History of Taxation May Surprise You
Deep History of Taxation Two things in life are certain: death and taxes. So goes the saying. And yet despite […]
The 1950s Economic Golden Age Is a Myth
1950s Economic Golden Age Is a Myth In my decades of trying to educate policymakers about the downsides of class-warfare […]