More on the FairTax

Tags: Taxes and Spending

05/15/2008 Mises Wire Laurence M. Vance

Now online is my article from the May 12 issue of The New American, “Is Making Taxes ‘Fair’ the Answer?” This comprehensive article on the problems with the FairTax is not based on a Boortz book, although I think I mentioned him once or twice.

Note: The views expressed on Mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.

What Is The Mises Wire?

Mises Wire offers contemporary news and opinion through the lens of Austrian economics and libertarian political economy.

Submitting articles to Mises Wire

Reprints, Permissions and Copyrights

The views expressed on Mises Wire and mises.org are not necessarily those of the Mises Institute.

Subscribe to the Mises Wire

Latest Articles

The US Just Escalated its Proxy War with Russia. Rothbard Explains Why that’s a Problem.

11/19/2024 Power & Market Ryan McMaken

This week, the people who run the Biden administration escalated tensions between Russia and the US by giving the Ukrainian regime authorization to use American-made (and presumably American-funded)...

A Free-Market Guide to Trump’s Immigration Crackdown

11/19/2024 Mises Wire Ryan McMaken

President-elect Donald Trump based much of his campaign on promises to crack down on immigration and carry out mass deportations. Politically, this was likely a winning issue for Trump after social...

Gresham’s Law: Bitcoin Will Save the World!

11/19/2024 Mises Wire Mark Thornton

What explains Bitcoin? Why does it exist and why is “nothing” worth $70,000 a piece? Moreover, there are millions of owners of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and yet few real transactions take...

Post-Election Prospects for Ending DEI

11/19/2024 Mises Wire Wanjiru Njoya

In considering the outcome of the recent elections in the United States, the question arises as to whether we can now expect to see the end of diversity, equity, and inclusion schemes which were...

The $100 Trillion Global Debt Bomb and Financial Shock Risk.

11/18/2024 Power & Market Daniel Lacalle

Last month, the IMF stated that “our forecasts point to an unforgiving combination of low growth and high debt, a difficult future,” emphasizing that “governments must work to reduce debt and rebuild...

Meet the Writer

Laurence M. Vance

Laurence M. Vance is an Associated Scholar of the Mises Institute, columnist and policy adviser for the Future of...

Can Huey Long Save America?

10/02/2024 Power & Market Laurence M. Vance

I occasionally read a writer and podcaster known as a conspiracy researcher who writes on a variety of subjects. Donald Jeffries is all over the map politically (reformer, idealist, libertarian...

Libertarianism vs. Microlibertarianism

09/06/2024 Power & Market Laurence M. Vance

Libertarianism is a consistent and principled philosophy that is absolute in scope and universal in application. We can begin with this classic description of libertarianism by libertarianism’s...

Subscribe to our Mailing Lists

What is the Mises Institute?

The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.

Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.

Become a Member