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If That Ain’t The Most Soviet Thing…

by Scott Horton | Jul 22, 2020 | Blog

Guys, check out this screed against a payroll tax cut at CNN.com. Their awesome points: Trump wants it. Some Republicans and Democrats don't want it. Some people say it won't "boost" the economy now. It won't help people who don't have jobs. There's still a virus, and...

The Libertarian Presidential Candidate We Need

by Steven Woskow | Jun 21, 2019 | Blog

Keith Preston at Attack The System wants a candidate that might actually be a libertarian. He argues they need to run on a platform of ending the federal government for real. Not “enforcing the Tenth Amendment, ” not “going back to the Constitution,” not “reducing...

TGIF: Anatomy of a Tax Cut

by Sheldon Richman | Dec 22, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles, Sheldon Richman, TGIF

Taxation is theft, I know, but the repeal of taxation, which would mean the repeal of the state, is not on the menu today. Sorry about that. So for now we must talk about the best available option. That's life. You must begin any journey exactly where you are. I've...

Torturing the Truth: The Tax Cut Debate vs. the English Language

by Thomas L. Knapp | Apr 28, 2017 | Economics, Featured Articles

On April 26, the Trump administration released a one-page summary of its tax reform proposals. The following morning, US Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin appeared on CBS This Morning to discuss those proposals. Co-anchor Norah O’Donnell didn’t waste any time...

Is the Government’s Budget Equal to GDP?

by Sheldon Richman | Aug 8, 2016 | Economics, Featured Articles, Sheldon Richman

Memo to news people: tax cuts don't have to be paid for. The money is ours; the government takes it from us by threat of force, i.e., taxation. It's government programs that have to be paid for. Tax cuts are not government programs. So if you want to ask how...

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Forced Integration is Evil

One thing I've learned studying the history of South Africa is that forced integration is as evil as forced segregationIf you want video go to tommysalmons.com

New Years Eve With Mike From Rosewater Meats

I grew up in and around paddocks full of livestock, the abattoirs where they were slaughtered and dressed to the butchers, super markets and catering companies where they would eventually end up on someones plate. A man covered in blood was a common fixture in my...

The message is clear, don’t be vulnerable.

Anthony Joshua and Jake Paul had a fight, as expected Joshua won. Andrew Tate made a comeback to the ring, he lost the decision. Both Paul and Tate are social media creatures. Tate, among other things, was a former prize fighter. Paul, after fame as a YouTuber took...

Back on The Rational Egoist

Michael Liebowitz invited me back to talk about whether we should have a government.

Happy 30th Birthday Antiwar.com !!!

It has been thirty years since the website Antiwar.com was launched. A defiant reaction to the Clinton administrations interventions in the Balkans during the 1990s. Founded by the late Justin Raimondo and Eric Garris, the site went on to become a platform of...

Did TSA Finally Grab the Wrong Groin?

Evita Duffy-Alfonso, the pregnant daughter of Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, tore into TSA last week over the abuse she suffered prior to a recent flight. Writing on X on Thursday, she called for abolishing TSA: Writing on X: I nearly missed my flight this...

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Empire of Lies: Fragments from the Memory Hole

by Charles Goyette

Had Enough of the Deep State’s Warlords and War Lies? George W. Bush spent a year and a half gaslighting the American people, using the shock of 9/11 as the pretext for an unrelated war he sought long before that tragic event. Isolated incident? Not at all. Now a...