by Brian Garst | May 30, 2012 | Blogs, Economics
The President has made promotion of “green energy” a central part of his agenda. His efforts have thus far been littered with waste, fraud and abuse, but nevertheless it remains a key plank of the President’s platform. So why then is his administration slapping...
by Brian Garst | Apr 17, 2012 | Blogs, Taxation
Politicians are always looking for ways to increase their power and exert ever more authority over greater swaths of humanity. Generally speaking, the world system of nation-states at least keeps to a minimum the number of politicians capable of pushing their views on...
by Brian Garst | Apr 16, 2012 | Blogs, Taxation
It’s almost that dreaded time of year again: Tax Day. As if reaching deep into our wallets to fund profligate government spending isn’t bad enough, Americans also bear a tremendous hidden cost just to comply with the tax code. At over 3.8 million words,...
by Brian Garst | Mar 22, 2012 | Blogs, Taxation
Today marks the 247th anniversary since the British government passed the Stamp Act, a direct tax levied on all materials printed for commercial or legal use in the colonies. The tax faced a backlash from the colonies and was decried as taxation without...
by Brian Garst | Feb 7, 2012 | Big Government, Blogs, Economics
According to Gallup, D.C. has the highest amount of economic confidence in the country…and it’s not even close. It would be easy to say that Gallup over-sampled White House staffers wearing Keynesian blinders, but the truth is far more depressing. It would...
