Taxes and Spending

The cartelized economy foisted on us since 9/11 has been a disaster for businesses and taxpayers. Will Trump return us to "normalcy"?

The CIA, a tax-supported government-created organization, will always be "politicized" and seek to increase its own power and wealth.

Europe's tobacco bans have managed to destroy businesses without actually getting people to stop smoking.

The words of the Bill of Rights are nice, but they mean nothing if the public abandons the ideology that underpins the Bill of Rights itself.

The left need not worry that Trump will be slashing government budgets. Nevertheless, there may still be some upsides to a Trump administration.

Promises of tax relief are rarely genuine, and when they are, there are almost always hidden costs in the form of increased political entrepreneurship and the expansion of regulation.

The CIA has always been inept, and it could not even figure out the basics of the Soviet home front during the Cold War.

Portland is using state coercion to force companies not to pay their CEOs more than 100 x the companie's median employee, or face an additional tax.

As long as rulers possess the power to tax, they will use that mechanism of state to the detriment of its subjects.

Companies relocate in order to serve their customers better with less-expensive products. In the media, these unseen customers are usually ignored.