The Economic Argument for a Carbon Tax Is a Work of Fiction
By Robert P. Murphy We live in strange times indeed when an environmental reporter for The New York Times writes that we should stop pushing for…
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West Virginia Legislator Proposes Eliminating ALL Taxation on Gold and Silver
By Jp Cortez Charleston, West Virginia (January 29, 2019) — West Virginia legislator Delegate Pat McGeehan (R-01) has introduced the West Virginia Sound Money Act, House…
Taxpayers Pay $1.25 Million After Cops Beat Innocent Dr. on Video—for Stealing His Own Car
By Matt Agorist Evanston, IL – All too often, those who blindly support authority without question will say, ‘If you don’t want to get beat…
Shock Survey: 59 Percent Of Americans Support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Proposal To Raise The Top Tax Rate To 70%
By Michael Snyder Although she has only been in Congress for less than a month, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is getting more attention than any other member…
Want To Abolish The Internal Revenue Service? See H.R. 25
By Catherine J. Frompovich For years everyone has been talking about getting rid of the Internal Revenue Service, which most folks think is next to…
Why Ireland May Soon Have to Say Goodbye to the Low Tax Rates That Made the Nation Rich
By John Phelan In 1988, The Economist magazine ran an article on Ireland titled “The poorest of the rich.” The title was well-deserved. That year, Irish per…
Audit Finds Government Spent $14 Million in Taxpayer Funds—to Hire 2 Border Patrol Agents (So Far)
By Daniel J. Mitchell What’s the most inefficient and wasteful part of the federal government? It’s impossible to answer that question without greater detail. Are we supposed…
The Conceit Behind California’s Bad Idea to Tax Text Messages
By Carey Wedler California routinely makes national headlines for its big government policies. This week is no different, as bureaucrats move to impose a texting…
Macron’s “Crumbs” To Send France Over EU Budget Deficit Ceiling
By Joseph Jankowski France’s Finance Minister is warning that the tax relief and subsidy acceleration promised by President Emmanuel Macron under the weight of nationwide protests…
Are The YELLOW VEST Protests Coming To CANADA? (With G. Edward Griffin)
By Press For Truth The Prime Minister of Canada Justin Trudeau is planning to dramatically increase taxes on carbon emissions to combat climate change…he plans…
French Citizens Want Cheaper Energy, not Global Warming Elitism
Op-Ed by David Unsworth Diesel moves France. Whereas in the United States diesel is increasingly a rarity used mainly to fuel heavy trucks, drivers in…
2019 Outlook: The State of Sound Money in the United States
By Jp Cortez The Great Recession, coupled with the “Ron Paul Revolution,” prompted a renaissance of the sound money movement in the United States. As…
The Real Significance of the French Tax Revolt
By Peter C. Earle The gilets jaunes (Yellow Jacket) anti-tax riots in France escalated over the past weekend, again citing the impact of higher taxes on…
Chicago’s New PlayStation Tax Shows How Greedy Politicians Can Be
By Brittany Hunter “If it moves, tax it.” That’s government’s eternal motto, as Ronald Reagan quipped. To this, the city government of Chicago has added,…