taxation
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Three Lessons from Venezuela’s Economic Collapse
Policy choices turned an oil-rich democracy into a petrostate, then into an authoritarian economy where repression followed redistribution.
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Bigger Government Means Bigger Fraud: Minnesota’s Billion-Dollar Lesson in Incentives
Minnesota’s largest-ever food-aid scandal reveals how weak incentives, political pressure, and lax oversight enable public-sector fraud to flourish — costing taxpayers billions.
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Tariffs Are Missing the Real Enemy: Yesterday’s Products
If protectionist logic is correct, the past is guilty of unfair competition that harms workers in factories making automobiles, batteries, lightbulbs, and other goods that are increasingly imported from the past.
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From Draining the Swamp to Owning Intel: How the Right Became What It Feared
What began as a promise to limit Washington’s power ended with politicians holding seats at corporate boardrooms.
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Inflation Declined in July
The Federal Reserve’s restrictive stance continues to put downward pressure on inflation.
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The Founders Would Be Appalled by Trump’s Tariff Policy—Even Hamilton
Tariffs aren’t just economic tools—they’re a test of America’s constitutional limits.
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Tariffs Tanked GDP, Not Imports
Spending on imports is not included in GDP. But the impact of tariffs, which reduce imports, can be seen clearly in new GDP data.
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Render Unto Caesar? Even the Pope Faces Confusion Complying with US Taxes
The ultra-complex US Tax Code creates opportunity for fraud and manipulation, while suppressing our economic potential… and stressing us out.
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IOUs to Inflation: The Realistic Limits of Magic Money Theory
Despite what Modern Monetary Theorists and other Fed fantasists would have you believe, we can’t print our way out of debt. Deficits will meet reality.
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My Disagreement with John Tamny on SALT Deductions
Lower taxes are a good thing — unless they just shift the cost from overspenders onto taxpayers in the future.
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Three Lessons from Venezuela’s Economic Collapse
Policy choices turned an oil-rich democracy into a petrostate, then into an authoritarian economy where repression followed redistribution.
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•
Bigger Government Means Bigger Fraud: Minnesota’s Billion-Dollar Lesson in Incentives
Minnesota’s largest-ever food-aid scandal reveals how weak incentives, political pressure, and lax oversight enable public-sector fraud to flourish — costing taxpayers billions.
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•
Tariffs Are Missing the Real Enemy: Yesterday’s Products
If protectionist logic is correct, the past is guilty of unfair competition that harms workers in factories making automobiles, batteries, lightbulbs, and other goods that are increasingly imported from the past.
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•
From Draining the Swamp to Owning Intel: How the Right Became What It Feared
What began as a promise to limit Washington’s power ended with politicians holding seats at corporate boardrooms.
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•
Inflation Declined in July
The Federal Reserve’s restrictive stance continues to put downward pressure on inflation.
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•
The Founders Would Be Appalled by Trump’s Tariff Policy—Even Hamilton
Tariffs aren’t just economic tools—they’re a test of America’s constitutional limits.
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•
Tariffs Tanked GDP, Not Imports
Spending on imports is not included in GDP. But the impact of tariffs, which reduce imports, can be seen clearly in new GDP data.
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•
Render Unto Caesar? Even the Pope Faces Confusion Complying with US Taxes
The ultra-complex US Tax Code creates opportunity for fraud and manipulation, while suppressing our economic potential… and stressing us out.
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•
IOUs to Inflation: The Realistic Limits of Magic Money Theory
Despite what Modern Monetary Theorists and other Fed fantasists would have you believe, we can’t print our way out of debt. Deficits will meet reality.
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•
My Disagreement with John Tamny on SALT Deductions
Lower taxes are a good thing — unless they just shift the cost from overspenders onto taxpayers in the future.