equality
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The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), announced by the House Ways and Means Committee on November 2nd, has generated a lot of commentary on both sides of the political divide.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomics
Free Markets, Not Government, Improve Race Relations
by Richard Ebeling September 5, 2017Politically we seem to be living in some trying times.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Governments Create Monopolies and Cause Worker Exploitation, Not Free Markets
by Richard Ebeling May 18, 2016The world is threatened with a renewed wave of anti-capitalism and anti-business sentiments and policies. Many who cheered the demise of Soviet communism in the early 1990s, presumed that this meant that, by default, the case for free markets and competitive enterprise had won in the battle of ideas. Over the last twenty-five years it has become clear that the same misguided arguments against free market capitalism constantly reemerge, like an ideological vampire waiting to rise from the intellectual grave and drain market freedom of its lifeblood by more government regulations and controls.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedTaxes
Tom, Dick, and Harry: The Tale of the American Progressive Income Tax
by Lindsey Stroud March 24, 2016Meet Tom, Dick, and Harry. They are three brothers, with three different income levels, as well as three different sets of financial priorities. They are going to help explain the…
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At Saturday’s Republican debate, several candidates were asked to define “conservatism.” Marco Rubio gave a politically-astute answer. He said conservatism embodies three principles: (1) limited government under the framework of the Constitution, (2) free-market economics and (3) peace through strength. Donald Trump gave an answer in keeping with the root word “conserve,” he conserve that which one has.