Posts Tagged ‘ income tax ’

Ninety-Nine Years of Evil

Feb 3rd, 2012 | By | Category: Economics, Featured
Today is the 99th anniversary of the signing of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution. It enshrined into law an idea that stands in total contradiction to the driving force behind the American Revolution and the whole idea of freedom itself. The great "old right" commentator Frank Chodorov once described the ...read more


The Revolution of 1913

Feb 2nd, 2012 | By | Category: Economics, Featured, Politics
Readers will scarcely have given any thought to the fact that they have never lived in the system of government argued for by Madison, Jay, and Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. "It may come as a shock ..." wrote John Flynn, "to be told that[you] have never experienced that kind of society ...read more


Vivien Kellems: Giving the Taxman Hell

Jan 4th, 2012 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties
If principles are expressed through people, then Vivien Kellems’s life (1896-1975) shouts out that business is not the handmaiden of government. For over 25 years the Westport, Connecticut industrialist battled the federal withholding tax, which she refused to collect from employees’ wages. If the government wanted her “to be their agent,” ...read more


Containment Is Spreading

Apr 10th, 2007 | By | Category: Commodities
In spite of Bernanke's claims that problems in housing are "well contained," most of the evidence appears to be contrary. State Tax Revenues Slump In "Housing Slump Pinches States in Pocketbook," The New York Times is reporting on tax shortfalls: In Florida, tax revenue is "projected to drop this year for the first ...read more