Taxation
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Liberty Eroding, Gold Rising: 30 Years of Warning
The dollar’s lost half its value and the price of gold exploded since our author first warned that politicians are ruining our purchasing power.
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Certificate-of-Need Laws Still Fail Patients — Even After a Decade of Reform
Certificate-of-need laws were meant to lower costs. Instead, they’ve let existing providers block competition, reducing patients’ access to care.
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The Myth That Foreigners Pay Our Tariffs
The costs of tariffs are always shared — and domestic citizens inevitably bear a significant portion of the burden.
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Social Security Isn’t a Retirement Account — and Congress Must Stop Pretending It Is
Social Security is pure welfare, not an individual savings program. Denying that only makes reform more difficult.
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Business Conditions Monthly November 2025
Shelter costs led price increases, but goods price acceleration leveled off. We’ve reached a new, distinctly elevated “normal.”
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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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The Latest Trump Administration Grift: Tariff Checks
Trump’s tariffs haven’t boosted manufacturing; they’ve raised costs and disrupted supply chains. A redistributive dividend check can’t reverse the underlying economic harm.
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The High Minimum Wage Blues
If the goal is higher take-home pay, wage subsidies beat wage mandates — without putting mom-and-pops out of business or marginal workers out of a job.
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Why California Is Bleeding Tech Jobs — Decline Is a Policy Choice
Silicon Valley isn’t dying — it’s decentralizing. Tech firms are expanding in lower-cost states and taking jobs with them.
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Rich People Won’t Just Sit Still While You Tax Them
Higher taxes motivate the wealthy to move out of state and take their job-providing, revenue-creating businesses with them.
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Liberty Eroding, Gold Rising: 30 Years of Warning
The dollar’s lost half its value and the price of gold exploded since our author first warned that politicians are ruining our purchasing power.
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Certificate-of-Need Laws Still Fail Patients — Even After a Decade of Reform
Certificate-of-need laws were meant to lower costs. Instead, they’ve let existing providers block competition, reducing patients’ access to care.
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The Myth That Foreigners Pay Our Tariffs
The costs of tariffs are always shared — and domestic citizens inevitably bear a significant portion of the burden.
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•
Social Security Isn’t a Retirement Account — and Congress Must Stop Pretending It Is
Social Security is pure welfare, not an individual savings program. Denying that only makes reform more difficult.
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•
Business Conditions Monthly November 2025
Shelter costs led price increases, but goods price acceleration leveled off. We’ve reached a new, distinctly elevated “normal.”
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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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•
The Latest Trump Administration Grift: Tariff Checks
Trump’s tariffs haven’t boosted manufacturing; they’ve raised costs and disrupted supply chains. A redistributive dividend check can’t reverse the underlying economic harm.
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•
The High Minimum Wage Blues
If the goal is higher take-home pay, wage subsidies beat wage mandates — without putting mom-and-pops out of business or marginal workers out of a job.
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•
Why California Is Bleeding Tech Jobs — Decline Is a Policy Choice
Silicon Valley isn’t dying — it’s decentralizing. Tech firms are expanding in lower-cost states and taking jobs with them.
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Rich People Won’t Just Sit Still While You Tax Them
Higher taxes motivate the wealthy to move out of state and take their job-providing, revenue-creating businesses with them.