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The Real Problem With the “Christmas Tree Tax”
Yesterday evening, Heritage spotted a conspicuous entry in the day’s publication of the Federal Register, defining a new tax on Christmas trees, which would fund a Christmas Tree Promotion Board…. Read more
The Only Fair Trade Is Free Trade
Walter Williams explains why politicians and bureaucrats shouldn’t have the power to tell us what we’re allowed to buy. At first blush, the mercantilists’ call for “free trade but fair… Read more
The Contributions of Eduardo Morgan Jr.
The fight for financial freedom and limited government is global. The Center for Freedom and Prosperity recognizes Eduardo Morgan Jr., an individual whose work for his native Panama echoes much… Read more
Postal Service Reform is Easy
The U.S. Postal Service has been hemorrhaging money for decades, and it’s not hard to understand why. As a government protected monopoly, the Postal Service cannot adjust to changing market… Read more
America Will Now Be the Unquestioned World Leader…But in the Wrong Way.
The United States has a very anti-competitive corporate tax regime. The federal tax rates is 35 percent and the average of state corporate tax systems brings the rate to nearly… Read more
The Sleazy Combination of Big Business and Big Government
There’s an article in the Wall Street Journal showing how already-established companies and their union allies will use the coercive power of government to thwart competition. The article specifically discusses efforts… Read more
America Falling Behind Thanks to Obama (and Bush).
For the past 15 years, America has been ranked as the world’s most competitive economy according to the Swiss-based IMD World Competitiveness Center. In the 2010 report that was recently… Read more
I Hate the Greeks (and the French, and the Brits, and the Americans).
Actually, that’s too broad of a brush, but I do despise people of any nationality who think that they are entitled to mooch off the labor and capital of others…. Read more
Bureaucrats vs. Taxpayers, Part XVI.
This topic seems very pedestrian since we just took another in a long series of steps in the wrong direction on health care, but the bloated civil service is a… Read more
Washington Post Calls for Postal Service Privatization!
Do my eyes deceive me? Has you-know-what frozen over? Something strange clearly has happened in the universe, because the Washington Post’s editorial page has published a very sensible piece about… Read more
