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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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Foreign Interference

People are being told to be alarmed about alleged foreign interference in the upcoming presidential election. Maybe they should be understanding rather than alarmed. The U.S. government conducts a wide-ranging interventionist foreign policy, which can substantially...

Pager-palooza: The Remote Detonation Arms Race Begins

If Israel had this mass remote detonation capability a year ago, why level Gaza when surgical strikes would have sent a more clear message and not set the entire global Islamic world against them (even worse and more vociferously than before)? Inquiring minds want to...

Encourage Work and Abolish Welfare: AZ Sheriff Testifies to Congress

https://www.youtube.com/live/sEjWcefdE0g?si=KFL1XUQdwsRVe5Yg Sheriff Hathaway of Arizona explains the situation at America's border. As libertarians, we should be encouraging people to engage in mutually beneficial voluntary exchanges regardless of arbitrary...

Hollywood Isn’t Real: Precise Space Targeting is Fiction

A billion here and several billion there, pretty soon some technology works. Not. Please dismiss the idea of the all-seeing eye-in-the-sky providing real time weapons launch control. And even if they could provide the data, what system would coordinate and synchronize...

Anti-War Blog – The Powerful and the Powerless

There is an indecency in forcing someones home open, to be pillaged, then celebrating in such behaviour by showing of what was found. Personal items. Men, relishing in the intimate secrets of a woman. Lingerie and other personal apparel to be strewn and displayed for...

Storm Clouds Gathering: Is This It?

Secret Service Director Ron Rowe [9/16/24]: "There could be another geopolitical event that could put the United States into a kinetic conflict or some other... some other issue that may result in additional responsibilities and protectees of the United States Secret...

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