Bernie is at it again folks. Recently, the Democratic senator proposed that the government confiscate all the money that a person makes above $999 million. This came about from an interview with Chris Wallace discussing his new book, It’s OK to Be Angry About...
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As the Fed’s Inflation Worsens, the IRS Is Targeting Restaurant Wait Staff
by Ron Paul | Feb 21, 2023 | Featured Articles
According to the January report of the Consumer Price Index, price inflation increased by 0.5 percent last month. This follows a 0.1 percent increase in December. The total increase over the last 12 months is 6.4 percent. The official government statistics, which are...
In Trump’s Tax Returns, We See the Evil of the Income Tax
by Ron Paul | Jan 10, 2023 | Featured Articles, Politics
The final act of the Democrat majority on the House Ways and Means Committee was to make public several years of Donald Trump’s tax returns, which the Committee obtained after a prolonged legal battle. The tax returns confirmed that, despite being one of the richest...
News Roundup 3/11/2022
by Kyle Anzalone | Mar 11, 2022 | News Roundup
US News Biden will extend masking on public transportation for another month. [Link] The US plans to continue talks with Maduro. [Link] Russia Meta Platforms is allowing users to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in discussions about the invasion...
The Government Is Coming for Your 401K
by Mike Fedele | Nov 15, 2021 | Featured Articles
Quiet conversations are occurring in the halls of Congress, think tanks, NGOs, and academia on how to continue the enrichment of the public sector elites and their various complexes (military, education, financial, healthcare, and “non-profits”). The “wise men” know...
We May Be The Only Ones Left And That’s Frightening
by Peter R. Quiñones | Mar 15, 2021 | Blog
I admit that I have a love/hate relationship with the concept of logical consistency. Hear me out please. First, my enemies don’t care if their arguments or policies possess logical consistency and, unfortunately, they tend to be the ones that control the reins of...
10/2/20 Kevin Gosztola: Day 17 of the Assange Extradition Hearing
by Scott Horton | Oct 2, 2020 | The Scott Horton Show
Kevin Gosztola discusses two major points from the recent round of testimony in the Assange hearing. First, the defense has been trying to emphasize the deplorable conditions Assange would be likely to face in an American supermax prison. This is something a judge...
You Can Check-Out Anytime You Like, But You Can Never Leave
by Steven Woskow | Aug 17, 2020 | Blog
New California wealth tax proposal raises taxes on total net worth of wealthy California residences. But, what if they decide to leave the State? No problem. Economic impacts: Will ultra-wealthy CA residents leave the state? As mentioned above, the California share of...
The Crisis Has Exposed the Damage Done By Government Regulations
by José Niño | Apr 2, 2020 | Economics, Events, Featured Articles
As we watch in real-time how governments respond to the novel coronavirus pandemic, some of the most predictable forms of state overreach—from restrictions on the freedom of assembly to the suppression of regular commerce—have been rolled out. Thankfully, there is no...
Rich People Suck
by Scott Shearin | Feb 22, 2020 | Blog
Barack Obama: “If you’ve got a business -- you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.” Bernie Sanders: “I don’t think that billionaires should exist.” AOC: “No one ever makes a billion dollars. You take a billion dollars. People become billionaires only by...
The 2020s A Renewed Libertarian Movement
by Scott Horton | Dec 27, 2019 | Featured Articles
Can you believe it? It's been 20 years since the year 2000. 19 since George W. Bush decided to get the 21st Century off on the completely wrong foot, waging aggressive war in the name of liberty and self-government and discrediting both. But I have to admit, back then...
Understanding Elizabeth Warren’s Radical Wealth Tax
by Robert Murphy | Dec 16, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has had a long-standing call for a 2% wealth tax on any individuals with a net worth exceeding $50 million, and a 3% tax on wealth exceeding $1 billion. Yet when pressed on how to pay for her “Medicare for All” plan,...
12/9/19 Eli Clifton on the Billionaire ‘Megadonors’ Controlling the GOP
by Scott Horton | Dec 10, 2019 | The Scott Horton Show
Scott talks to Eli Clifton about the billionaire "megadonors" who control the Republican party. Although Trump started his campaign touting his status as an independent billionaire who couldn't be bought, Clifton explains how even if that's true, someone needs to fund...
The Left’s Errors on Taxing Billionaires – Freedom Philosophy
by Brandon Kirby | Dec 5, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism
In a public debate concerning the leadership of the United Kingdom, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn claimed that the existence of billionaires in unconscionable. Since then I’ve seen an influx of memes calling billionaires evil. The very notion that someone has made...
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The Non-Existent Difference Between National Socialism and Democratic Socialism
Summary: National Socialism and Democratic Socialism both advocate institutionalized violence by the state against peaceful people only differing in rhetoric. The most popular self described Democratic Socialists in America today are Senator Bernie Sanders and...
A Response to My Memorial Day Critics
My article against Memorial Day drew a lot of ire and attention. This should not have been surprising; I was making a controversial statement. What did surprise me, however, was that many critics were self-described libertarians or former libertarians. There were many...
Ignoring Political Gossip & Sticking to Principle
https://youtu.be/ZwWHjYVY4tg In the private sector, firms must attract voluntary customers or they fail; and if they fail, investors lose their money, and managers and employees lose their jobs. The possibility of failure, therefore, is a powerful incentive to find...
The Myth of “Hyper-Rugged-Isolationist-Individualism”
Myth #1: Libertarians believe that each individual is an isolated, hermetically sealed atom, acting in a vacuum without influencing each other. This is a common charge, but a highly puzzling one. In a lifetime of reading libertarian and classical-liberal...
The Lesson From Germany and Korea
Institutions are, of course, in some sense the products of culture. But, because they formalize a set of norms, institutions are often the things that keep a culture honest, determining how far it is conducive to good behaviour rather than bad. To illustrate the...
Occupational Licensing Increases Prices and Deprives People of Options
When you shop online, vendors usually give you a bunch of different ways to sort your options. Take Amazon: One popular sorting option – especially for customers with low income – is “Price: Low to High.” You’ve probably used it yourself many times. This...
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