Category: Economics

Posts on economics

Posts on economics

Economics

Intellectual Property and Libertarianism

Stephan Kinsella’s presentation at Mises University this past July is an excellent introduction to intellectual property, and to rights theory ...

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Economics

Universal Health Care is the new Post Office

Cash for Clunkers made no sense whatsoever. The Climate-Change Bill was just moronic. Universal Health Care, though, is going to ...

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Economics

10 Things I Hate About Taxes: Epilogue

No, this is not #11, it really is just an epilogue – or an afterthought… I hope you attended or ...

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Economics

10 Things I Hate About Taxes: The Full Series

Ah taxation, how we despise thee. You make some richer, but most poorer. You daily remind us that we live ...

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Economics

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #10: Lost Prosperity

This is the tenth article in a series on taxation leading up to Tax Day, April 15. I think I’ve ...

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Economics

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #9: Taxation is Theft

I have already said and illustrated this numerous times in previous articles, but I will say it once again: Taxation ...

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Economics

That’s No Moon… It’s a Space Stati… What the?

These pictures should need no explanation…  

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Economics

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #8: Living in Fear

To say that the tax code is complicated would be the understatement of the century. It is, in fact, far ...

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Christian Ethics

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #7: Caesar’s Benevolence

Many Christians believe that paying taxes is fulfilling the Biblical command to show compassion to the poor. We just need ...

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Economics

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #6: Withholding Taxes

This is the sixth article in a series on taxation leading up to Tax Day, April 15. If we were ...

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Economics

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #5: Your Tax Dollars at Work

Think about all the crazy things you know your tax money pays for...

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Economics

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #4: Privacy and Personal Income

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, ...

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Economics

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #3: The Truth About Government Spending

Politicians, especially Republicans, love to talk about "cutting taxes," and in some cases they actually do cut some taxes and ...

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Economics

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #2: Newspeak

Governments manipulate language for their own purposes constantly. It allows them to circumvent truth in the public square (at least ...

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Economics

10 Things I Hate About Taxes #1: Lost Productivity

Ever wondered how much time and money are lost through federal tax returns? It actually is rather astounding even by ...

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Economics

The Californicrisis and Bank Nationalization

When an economy undergoes a contraction, governments collect less revenue simply because less is happening and less is being bought. ...

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Economics

Fear is the New Hope

They hoped for change, but fear is the new hope. “A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis ...

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Economics

On Transportation Pollution: My first peer-reviewed publication

In the world of academia, one of the things you regularly try to do is publish your research in peer-reviewed ...

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Economics

Speedlinking Friday – Intellectual Property

Today I would like to invite you to read a bit about intellectual property. Last week, Jeff Tucker of the ...

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Economics

5 Predictions for 2009

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” ~Niels Bohr I know as well as anyone that the future is ...

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Book Reviews

How to Be Evangelical without Being Conservative

I was first introduced to Roger Olson through his book Who Needs Theology?, which I read for one of my ...

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