Tag: redistribution of wealth

Culture

Those in Need Will Work for Food

This article was originally published in the Joplin Globe on May 14th, 2018. This is the final installment of the 7 pieces in ...

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Economics

The Flat Tax Revisited

Every four years, during the presidential election season, Republican candidates criticize the abuses of the IRS and the complexity of ...

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Economics

Our Marxist Tax Code

Originally published at The New American on April 10, 2012. Tax season is winding down once again, but the progressivity ...

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Christian Ethics

Wealth: Spread it or Share it?

Progressives are often advocating social policies that spread the wealth around. They defend this by explaining that shared wealth is ...

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History

The Evil Nature of the State

This essay continues the Christian Theology and Public Policy Course essays by John Cobin, author of the great books Bible ...

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Christian Ethics

Lessons in Liberty: Christian Libertarianism

Blayne Bennett from Students for Liberty asked me to write a short article describing what it means to be a ...

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Libertarianism

Tax Slavery Sucks

This article is #19 of a weekly series highlighting the former memes of Bureaucrash, an organization once headed by my ...

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Libertarianism

Social Slavery

The current Social Security (aka “socialist insecurity”) system is designed as a pay-as-you-go system, in which current workers’ tax dollars ...

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Economics

Economics Has the Answer: What’s the Question?

By Edmund Opitz. Adam Smith’s monumental achievement was to enlarge the individual person’s freedom of action in economic affairs, and ...

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Economics

Black Magic

By Edmund Opitz Every individual tries to economize his energies by satisfying his needs and desires with a minimum of ...

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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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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 #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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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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