This article was originally published in the Joplin Globe on May 14th, 2018. This is the final installment of the 7 pieces in our series, “Compassion, Not Compulsion: Why the Welfare State Fails ...
Every four years, during the presidential election season, Republican candidates criticize the abuses of the IRS and the complexity of the tax code. This time is no different. Sometimes Republicans ...
Originally published at The New American on April 10, 2012. Tax season is winding down once again, but the progressivity of the tax code is still with us. Most Americans ...
Progressives are often advocating social policies that spread the wealth around. They defend this by explaining that shared wealth is a symptom of a just economic system. The Bible has plenty ...
This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course essays by John Cobin, author of the great books Bible and Government and Christian Theology of Public Policy. —- The ...
Blayne Bennett from Students for Liberty asked me to write a short article describing what it means to be a Christian libertarian, and this piece was the result. What do ...
This article is #19 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my friends Pete Eyre and Jason Talley of the Motorhome Diaries. ...
The current Social Security (aka “socialist insecurity”) system is designed as a pay-as-you-go system, in which current workers’ tax dollars pay for the benefits of retirees. And the system is ...
By Edmund Opitz. Adam Smith’s monumental achievement was to enlarge the individual person’s freedom of action in economic affairs, and thus in other sectors of his life as well. Smith’s ...
By Edmund Opitz Every individual tries to economize his energies by satisfying his needs and desires with a minimum of effort—within the limits of his ethical code. The urge to ...
I have already said and illustrated this numerous times in previous articles, but I will say it once again: Taxation is theft, period. To continue this theme, I'd like to ...
Many Christians believe that paying taxes is fulfilling the Biblical command to show compassion to the poor. We just need to "render to Caesar" and Caesar will do the right ...
Politicians, especially Republicans, love to talk about "cutting taxes," and in some cases they actually do cut some taxes and ease the burden of all. Unfortunately, this masks the dirty, ...
I was first introduced to Roger Olson through his book Who Needs Theology?, which I read for one of my theology classes a few years ago (and I highly recommend ...
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