The 1983 shootout between outspoken IRS critic Gordon Kahl and U.S. Marshals was a flashpoint for the populist anti-government movement. Some 40 years later, a man involved in the 1983 shootout seeks his release from prison. That man is Scott Faul, who was with Kahl...
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Joe Louis vs. the Tax Man
by Kym Robinson | Mar 7, 2023 | Featured Articles
Professional fighters are accustomed to pain, not just from the blows of an opponent or the deceptions of poor management and shoddy promoters, but the tax man who often deals out the most punishment. Boxing legend and American hero Joe Louis, who helped symbolize the...
Could a National Sales Tax Be a Viable Alternative to the Income Tax?
by Stark Realities with Brian McGlinchey | Mar 2, 2023 | Economics, Featured Articles
Sometime during this 117th U.S. Congress, the long-proposed “Fair Tax” will likely receive its first-ever floor vote in the House. A national sales tax, it would replace not only personal and corporate income taxes, but Social Security, Medicare, estate and gift taxes...
More States Should Abolish Their Income Taxes
by Chris Edwards | Oct 4, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
State and local governments raised $1.9 trillion in taxes in 2020. The main sources were sales taxes (35 percent), property taxes (32 percent), and individual income taxes (23 percent). But nine states do not impose an individual income tax. How do they run their...
Inflation Cheats the Working Man
by Thomas Eddlem | Sep 14, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles
What would the political left (and for that matter, the right) do if they found that one of the biggest factors in income inequality was not top income tax levels, but inflation? It might lead to a revolution and a grand coalition among people of ideologies across the...
8/19/22 Sheldon Richman on America’s Totalitarian Tax System
by Scott Horton | Aug 22, 2022 | The Scott Horton Show
Download Episode. Scott interviews the Libertarian Institute executive editor Sheldon Richman about a column he put out last Friday. In it, he discusses the massive boost Biden’s spending bill gives the IRS. Richman explains why strengthening tax enforcement will...
TGIF: The Coming New and Improved IRS
by Sheldon Richman | Aug 19, 2022 | Economics, Featured Articles, Justice, Libertarianism, Politics, Sheldon Richman, TGIF
The brilliant people in the Biden administration and the U.S. Congress have decided that one thing America really needs is an Internal Revenue Service (!) fortified by 87,000 more employees and 80 billion more dollars so it can help reduce the inflation that currently...
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...
Three Friends And Their Divergent Paths In Life
by Kym Robinson | Apr 23, 2020 | Featured Articles
This recollection is based on a true story. There were three friends, each were a little different to the other. As young boys the three began to mature into different people; John was lazy and he grew rounder as the others began to grow broad shoulders. While they...
The Great Sheldon Richman
by Scott Horton | Dec 19, 2019 | Featured Articles
I am so proud that Sheldon Richman agreed to co-found The Libertarian Institute with me and Will Grigg back in 2016. He is one of the all time greatest and most productive libertarians, having written thousands and thousands of articles and written and edited more...
Episode 348: Which State is at the top, or close to, in Business and Tax Rankings?
by Peter R. Quiñones | Dec 9, 2019 | Free Man Beyond the Wall
32 Minutes Suitable for All Ages Pete welcomes New Hampshire FSP Board Chair, Carla Gericke. Carla comes on to talk about how New Hampshire is now #1 in taxes (with no sales or personal income tax), how their business tax is declining quarterly, how business-friendly...
Warning: Actual Costs of Government Programs Higher Than Advertised
by Bradley Thomas | Nov 18, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles, Libertarianism, Politics
As outrageous as the price tag promised to us for initiatives like Elizabeth Warren’s healthcare plan, Bernie’s ‘Medicare for All’ plan, or AOC’s ‘Green New Deal,’ history tells us the actual cost to taxpayers would be far higher. In its first year, Medicare cost $3...
More Money Pumping Won’t Make Us Richer
by Frank Shostak | Sep 17, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
Whenever a central bank introduces easy monetary policy, as a rule this leads to an economic boom — or economic prosperity. At least this is what most commentators hold. If this is however the case then it means that an easy monetary policy can grow an economy. But...
Proof That “the Rich” Aren’t Going to Fund the Tidal Wave of New Spending
by John Phelan | Mar 2, 2019 | Economics, Featured Articles
So, $47 billion on free college tuition; $1 trillion for new infrastructure; $1.4 trillion to write off student loan debt; at least $7 trillion on a Green New Deal; $32 trillion on “Medicare for All.” By one estimate, these new spending proposals total an estimated...
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Roland Fryer’s Shocking Conclusion
https://youtu.be/2nLWCLsmpJ4 On the most extreme use of force – officer-involved shootings – we find no racial differences in either the raw data or when contextual factors are taken into account. We argue that the patterns in the data are consistent with a model in which...
The US Government Has Been Lying About How to Lose Weight for Decades
https://youtu.be/TUADs-CK7vI Fat Fiction Movie Website Research by Ann F. La Berge: How the Ideology of Low Fat Conquered America Turns out a low-carb diet does far more to help people lose weight than a low-fat diet.
The “Rich Get Richer” Myth
Some 94 percent of Americans who reach “top 1 percent” income status will enjoy it for only a single year. Approximately 99 percent will lose their “top 1 percent” status within a decade. Now consider the top 400 U.S. income-earners—a far more exclusive club than the...
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...
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