Topic: Government

Democrats’ Minimum Tax Proposal Won’t Force Amazon to Pay More In Taxes

– November 12, 2021

“A domestic minimum tax is not good for America. Legislators should find it a plot in the ever-growing graveyard of bad Democratic tax proposals.” ~ Travis Nix

Crisis, Government, International

China is About to Make a Huge Mistake: Make Xi Jinping Dictator for Life

– November 12, 2021

“The PRC will continue to pose a serious challenge to America and the West. However, Xi’s war on liberty will give the U.S. an important and enduring advantage in the contest for the future.” ~ Doug Bandow

Crisis, Education, Government, History

The Long History of Parents’ Rights

– November 11, 2021

“If the recent denigration of parents is a harbinger of things to come, then liberty-loving people need to make the case, once again, for the right of parents to direct their children’s education, including in public schools.” ~ Joseph Griffith

Crisis, Government, History

Dear America: It’s Time to Break Up

– November 11, 2021

“Decentralization is the light at the end of a very dark tunnel for America. Eventually, we may not have a choice — and at that stage, such a breakup will be far uglier and more painful than one we agree to now.” ~ Max Borders

Economic History, Fiscal Policy, Government, Public Choice and Public Policy

Adam Smith, Capitation, and the Nonsense That Is the Proposed Wealth Tax

– November 11, 2021

“While the economic implications of this proposal are sufficiently flimsy to discount its claimed purpose of revenue generation, the proposed wealth tax faces a greater obstacle to its adoption: it is blatantly unconstitutional.” ~ Phillip W. Magness

Authoritarianism, Fiscal Policy, Government

Biden’s Plan to “Tax The Rich” Will Cost the Middle Class

– November 10, 2021

“With huge budget deficits, all it would take would be some future crisis for this tax to look like a good option to policy makers. And once the rich are subject to the tax, you will be next.” ~ Randall G. Holcombe

Government, Healthcare, Public Choice and Public Policy, Regulation

The FDA is Back and Coming after Smart Socks

– November 10, 2021

“Considering the FDA regulates nearly 40 percent of all consumer products, its recent actions are a strong cause for concern. As a health economist, I’ll be monitoring the situation closely.” ~ Raymond J. March

Authoritarianism, Crisis, Fiscal Policy, Government

The Great Tax Gap Flap

– November 10, 2021

“Americans do not want to return to the days when they deliberately overpaid their taxes in order to avoid a nasty audit. And certainly any hint that the IRS was auditing middle class Americans for partisan reasons would be revolutionary in more ways than one.” ~ Robert E. Wright

Art and Culture, Crisis, Government, Healthcare

Dopesick Resurrects an Opioid Narrative That Is ‘Neat, Plausible, and Wrong’

– November 9, 2021

“Just when those responsible for our misguided opioid policy may be coming to this realization and reevaluating their approach, Hulu releases a miniseries aimed at stirring the passions that might breathe new life into the false and failing narrative.” ~ Jeffrey A. Singer

Central Banking, Economic Education, Government, International

Negative Interest Rates and the ECB’s Brave New Credit World

– November 9, 2021

“The widely negative real interest rates, which have already been a reality in some segments of the European capital markets, might foreshadow this loss of welfare for the European people.” ~ Gunther Schnabl & Nils Sonnenberg

Economic Education, Free Markets, Government

Government Jobs for All?

– November 8, 2021

“Production requires real work, not government make-work jobs. By diverting millions out of productive private sector jobs, the MMT jobs guarantee seems guaranteed to impoverish America.” ~ Daniel J. Sutter

Free Markets, Government, Healthcare, Regulation

J&J Isn’t the Bad Guy in the Talcum Tort Transfer

– November 8, 2021

“The HHS National Toxicology Program doesn’t list talc as a cause of human cancer. The Cancer Council of Western Australia goes so far as to call any link between talc and cancer, and specifically talc and ovarian cancer, ‘a myth.'” ~ Michael Fumento