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When the Supreme Court Stopped Economic Fascism in America

There was a time when the Supreme Court of the United States defended and upheld the Constitutional protections for economic liberty in America. This year marks the 80th anniversary of one of the...

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Tax Freedom Requires Adherence to the “Let-Alone” Principle

April 15th is the day that every American is expected to have filed their federal income tax form. Some of us may have done it long before the deadline, some of us will wait until just before the...

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Why Government Deficits and Debt Do Matter

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reported in early May that for the month of April 2015 the Federal government ran a budget surplus, taking in more in taxes than it laid out in expenditures. Don’t...

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John Stuart Mill and the Dangers of Unrestrained Government

One of the great voices for personal liberty was that of the British economist and political philosopher, John Stuart Mill. His essay, “On Liberty,” though penned well over 150 years ago, is a classic...

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To Return America to Greatness we Must Understand What Made Us Great and What...

Donald Trump is running on a campaign slogan of “Make America Great Again” – a term he first “borrowed” from Reagan’s “Let’s make America great again” and has since trademarked – and while his plan to...

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The Free Market versus the Bureaucratic State

The U.S. presidential election of 2016 may still be well over a year away, but those who dream of sitting at the desk in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. are busy scrambling for...

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“Great National Purposes” Mean Less Freedom

With the seventieth anniversary this year of the end of the Second World War, a number of commentators have focused on the presumed “unity” of America seven decades ago to “win the war” against global...

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The Fiscal and Ethical Stranglehold of the Welfare State

The welfare state threatens to fiscally weaken and morally undermine the United States. In the Federal government’s fiscal year that ended on September 30, 2015, Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid...

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War, Big Government, and Lost Freedom

We are currently marking the hundredth anniversary of the fighting of the First World War. For four years between the summer of 1914 and November 11, 1918, the major world powers were in mortal combat...

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America’s National Debt Bomb Was Caused by the Welfare State

The news is filled with the everyday zigzags of those competing against each other for the Democrat and Republican Party nominations to run for the presidency of the United States. But one of the most...

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Big Government Fuels Income Inequality

Political campaign years are filled with candidates’ promises to solve people’s problems. Government policies will “create jobs,” will reduce or even block the “unfair” competition of market rivals in...

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