The passage of an income tax in the early twentieth century was an enormous shift toward a far more centralized and powerful US state.
Mark Brandly
He holds a PhD in economics from Auburn University, where he was a Mises Research Fellow, specializing in the areas of Public Finance, International Economics, Natural Resource Economics, and Industrial Organization. He has published articles in The Wall Street Journal, The Journal of Commerce, Public Finance Review, The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics, The Free Market, various newspapers and websites. Since 2003, Dr. Brandly has taught at Ferris State University. He also taught at Ball State University and Taylor University. Prior to his academic career, he worked in the Colorado oil and gas industry managing the drilling, completion, and production of oil and gas wells.
Latest work
The income tax is “undoubtedly the most totalitarian of all taxes. —Murray Rothbard At the founding of our country, the framers of our Constitution wisely withheld the right to tax incomes from the...
There are many reasons we should be skeptical of the GDP statistic. But it is nonetheless important to understand how it is calculated.
