Bill Gates has called for a “robot tax” to help maintain government tax revenue when human laborers are let go because a “robot comes in to do the same thing.” He seems to be following the same line of argument that many make for a universal basic income: when a...
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Why Education Is Not a Public Good
by Eric Schuler | Mar 7, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
Today, government provides many goods and services that used to be addressed by private means. Public education is one of the most salient examples. Government stepped into education with the best of intentions. Yet it goes without saying that many people remain...
Arizona Challenges the Fed’s Money Monopoly
by Ron Paul | Mar 6, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
History shows that, if individuals have the freedom to choose what to use as money, they will likely opt for gold or silver. Of course, modern politicians and their Keynesian enablers despise the gold or silver standard. This is because linking a currency to a...
Budgets, Taxes, Deficits and Debt; or, Mulvaney versus the Math
by Thomas L. Knapp | Mar 6, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
“What you see in this budget is exactly what the president ran on,” US Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney told George Stephanopoulos on ABC’s “Good Morning America” in late February. The president’s overall budget proposal is still under wraps and...
Refugees, Immigration, and the Trolley Problem
by Trevor Thrall | Mar 1, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
During the presidential campaign Donald Trump’s son, Eric Trump, tweeted a picture of a bowl of Skittles candies along with the caption: “If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you. Would you take handful? That’s our Syrian refugee problem.”...
Donald Trump, Standard Conservative
by Jacob Hornberger | Mar 1, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles, Foreign Policy, Libertarianism
In the second month of Donald Trump’s presidency, it is crystal clear that he is nothing more than a standard conservative, one with a unique personality but a standard conservative nonetheless. Consider the drug war. After decades of manifest failure, death,...
IN Police Spent $400K in Forfeiture Funds on Salaries & Benefits
by Nick Sibilla | Mar 1, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
Federal Audit: Indiana Agencies Spent $400,000 in Forfeiture Funds on Salaries, Benefits Indiana law enforcement spent over $400,000 in federal asset forfeiture funds to pay the salaries, overtime and fringe benefits for its officers, according to a federal audit...
Debt Ceiling Déjà Vu
by Jacob Hornberger | Feb 27, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles
Two days ago, President Trump sent out a tweet crowing that the national debt went down by $12 billion in the first month of his administration, as compared to the first month of the Obama regime, when it went up by $200 billion. If Trump really believes that he is...
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