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The Attack on Accidental Americans

Sep 21st, 2011 | By | Category: Economics
When Julie Veilleux discovered she was American, she went to the nearest U.S. embassy to renounce her citizenship. Having lived in Canada since she was a young child, the 48-year-old had no idea she carried the burden of dual citizenship. But the renunciation will not clear away the past 10 ...read more

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Tricked on the Fourth of July

Jul 6th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
I do not celebrate the fourth of July. This goes back to a term paper I wrote in graduate school. It was on colonial taxation in the British North American colonies in 1775. Not counting local taxation, I discovered that the total burden of British imperial taxation was about 1% ...read more

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To Tax Is to Destroy

Apr 29th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics
In order to have an effect, laws must be enforced. The enforcement mechanism is the bureaucracy. Without a bureaucratic system of enforcers, laws would be just a collection of restrictive words on fancy parchment. This is why President Jackson said of another case during the Marshall court, “John Marshall has ...read more

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The True Nature of Taxation

Apr 27th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties, Politics
Nobody really likes paying their taxes. But, as the old adage about “death and taxes” conveys, there is a sense that taxes are as legitimate and as inevitable as death itself. In their acceptance of taxation, many well-meaning people forget that taxation violates our most basic moral principles. If you have ...read more

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What Is The Quiet Fear That Troubles Us All?

Mar 25th, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Personal Liberties
American Fear Whether they realize it or not Americans live in a constant state of fear every day. I’m not referring to the fears of everyday life like losing a job or having an accident of some kind, but rather a more sinister and devious fear; a fear that Americans only ...read more

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Milton Friedman’s Money Machine

Mar 21st, 2011 | By | Category: Featured, Gold, Macro Economics
Milton Friedman believed in the free market most of the time. The trouble was, whenever he approached the coercive monopoly known as civil government, he came up with logical solutions based on the idea that civil government can be made more efficient by adopting pseudo-market arrangements. He came up with ...read more

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Renouncing American Citizenship

Apr 28th, 2010 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
Let’s be clear about something. A person who decides to give up his US citizenship is not guilty of disloyalty to America; quite the opposite. He could very well be more loyal to American principles than the regime is willing to tolerate. It also does not mean that he is giving ...read more

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Progressive Taxation, an Assault on Liberty

May 15th, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
Societies that use tax law as a way to achieve political or social goals are societies based on envy and resentment. That is, how a nation treats taxes tells you something of the character of a nation. So when you hear anyone say that the level of taxation in a country ...read more

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Why Tea Won’t Work This Time

Apr 21st, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Politics
Not only was this populist tea fest diffuse, it was also as much a same-old “pay no attention to the man behind the curtain” game. Everyone was attacking Obama either explicitly or implicitly, when the whole boondoggle -- and the thing you’re paying $42k for -- and seeing 25 cent ...read more

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There Ain’t No Liberals in Feed Stores

Mar 31st, 2009 | By | Category: Featured, Macro Economics, Politics
THEY AIN'T NO LIB'RULS IN FEED STORES.  I spend a lot of time (and money) in feed stores and I guarantee that those who feed America on anything other than corporate level do not and never have wanted any part of what Obama is selling.  Yup, we're a mean-spirited, selfish ...read more

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