In October, the U.S. national debt reached $31 trillion, and the government is projected to wade another trillion dollars into the red in the 2023 fiscal year. The longer-term picture is even gloomier, with the deficit expected to double to $2 trillion by 2030....
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Here’s How We Make Housing Affordable Again
by Vanessa Brown Calder | Dec 1, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
There are many policies that reduce the supply of goods and services that parents and children need, and therefore lead to rising costs for family necessities like food, housing, clothing, transportation, and childcare. Policies including tariffs, regulations, and...
Will Joe Biden Make the Trains Run on Time?
by Jim Bovard | Nov 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
“I intend to be the most pro-union President leading the most pro-union administration in American history," President Joe Biden promised last year. But Uncle Joe has found his “inner Mussolini” and nothing is as important as the trains running on time. Biden is...
Kamala Harris Blunders Philippines Visit, Stirs Conflict with China
by Nickie Deahl | Nov 30, 2022 | Featured Articles, Foreign Policy
Vice President Kamala Harris visited the Philippines last week in what can only be described as three days of warmongering, hypocrisy, and another huge provocation against China. Harris spent her time spouting empty platitudes of affirmation regarding U.S. defense...
Justice Denied: The Contrast of Ross Ulbricht and Sam Bankman-Fried
by Matt Agorist | Nov 30, 2022 | Criminal Justice, Featured Articles
“How did this dude steal billions of dollars and is now speaking at a summit as a free man? Make it make sense.”- the internet. This is the question that millions of people are asking after weeks have now passed since Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX scandal unfolded....
Prophetic Patrick Henry’s Warning on the Constitution’s ‘Implied Authority’
by TJ Martinell | Nov 30, 2022 | Featured Articles
Patrick Henry’s impassioned remarks during the final days of the Virginia Ratifying Convention were the culmination of week-long arguments between skeptics of the proposed Constitution and its supporters, such as James Madison. In modern context, it is easy at first...
Our Economic System Is Built To Enrich the 1%
by Jeffrey Wernick | Nov 29, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
I would like to attempt to describe our economic model since we abandoned sound money and any constraints upon our ability to print IOUs (or what most refer to as dollars without any understanding of what that really means). Before, there was mandated fungibility...
How to Sell Progressives on Lower Taxes
by Connor O'Keeffe | Nov 29, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
As Democrats and Republicans across the country fought over control of Congress in this past midterm election, progressives in Massachusetts and California continued with one of their favorite pastimes: trying to raise taxes on the rich. In Massachusetts, voters were...