by Dan Mitchell | Jun 14, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market
In a review of two new biographies about Ayn Rand, Charles Murray explains what made her books – particularly Atlas Shrugged – so powerful and persuasive: In 1991, the book-of-the-month club conducted a survey asking people what book had most influenced...
by Dan Mitchell | May 26, 2010 | Blogs, Free Market, Taxation, Uncategorized
Richard Rahn’s Washington Times column makes several key points about corporate taxation, including the fact that excessive taxation of capital (the corporate income tax being just one example) is extremely foolish such taxes impose the most damage – per dollar...
by Dan Mitchell | May 25, 2010 | Blogs, Crime
I´ve already posted a great video from the folks at the Institute for Justice about this issue, but this John Stossel column is another good reminder of the corrupt and evil impact of asset forfeiture laws. If bureaucrats have an incentive to take people´s property –...
by Andrew F. Quinlan | Apr 12, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Taxation
Richard Rahn recently wrote an article in the Washington Times about issues of morality and the IRS. His conclusions about the oppressive nature of the federal tax bureaucracy and accurate contrasts with state tax agencies are particularly relevant in April. Would...
by Dan Mitchell | Jan 19, 2010 | Big Government, Blogs, Privacy
This blog periodically makes fun of England (even though it is one of my favorite nations) for big government and political correctness, but these two stories caused my jaw to drop. First, the Daily Mail reports that a man was jailed for several hours because he was...
