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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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Restricting Production

"At the bottom of the interventionist argument there is always the idea that the government or the state is an entity outside and above the social process of production, that it owns something which is not derived from taxing its subjects, and that it can spend this...

Ford Follies: The Carrier Grift That Just Keeps Giving

Stop building these things. Even the corporate/access defense media is starting to sound the alarm bells on the multi-billion carrier fiasco that is the USS Ford which is probably causing plenty of public relations professionals in the Navy to go apoplectic. As my...

“Capitalism” Is about Freedom, Not Capital

"Why 'capitalism'? Words have an unfortunate tendency to confuse. Free market capitalism is not really about capital, it is about handing control of the economy from the top to billions of independent consumers, entrepreneurs and workers, and allowing them to make...

Ticonderoga Leaves the Fleet: The US Surface Navy Continues to Shrink

The US Navy surface fleet continues to shrink. And every surface hull commissioned after the Arleigh Burke class in 1991 has been a failure. The Chinese Navy exceeds the US Navy in total warships deployed. What makes this even more astonishing is that the Chinese...

US Forces Booted Out of Niger

2024 is the end of the ten year lease after expending $110 million to build and $30 million a year to maintain the base. The French forces were booted in October 2023. American troops are leaving now and the German troops will leave in September. The military regimes...

They Hate Our Freedom

They Hate Our Freedom Near the end of 2022,[1] the government finally released the notes from the 9/11 Commission’s interview of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from April 29, 2004. Would you believe it turns out the president admitted that his...

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Imagine the Catholic Church (or any person or group of people) doing what the government does every day: Everyone who doesn’t give the Catholic Church 25% of his annual income every year will be put in jail. If he resists the Jesuit officer, the officer has the right...

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