Why don’t all of the world countries agree on a taxes system, in which big and long lasting corporations pay over 90% of their profit, and the more wealth that you make the higher taxes… Why don’t all of the world countries agree on a taxes system
Is economics considered a science? If so why? Isn’t money and value merely an agreed upon idea? A paper dollar has value because we all believe it does. Even gold’s value is based on belief.… Is economics considered a science?
Ludwig von Mises spoke/wrote these words in 1958. He was optimistic that good ideas (loosely, free markets and free minds) would defeat bad ideas via good men and women standing up for and defending these… Ludwig von Mises on Politics and Ideas
In the United States, the term adjusted gross income has the smell of US Federal Tax Form 1040, and accordingly, yes; which is both a shame and a sham as the younger you are, the… Is Social Security included in adjusted gross income?
The problem with state planners, whether communist or fascist, is arrogance. A statist views its particular plan as self-evidently true and just, as natural as falling off of a log while viewing other plans —… The Problem with State Planners
In this audio book, Rothbard provides a succinct account of the origins of money, showing how money must originate from a commodity. Source: The Case Against the Fed | Mises Institute
Yes, we could build a wall as Trump has proposed. Let’s st aside the important matter of whether that is a good idea in terms of immigration reform or US-Mexico relations. It has been suggested… An Engineer Explains Why Trump’s Wall Is So Implausible – and Bastiat
I. THE BROKEN WINDOWHave you ever witnessed the anger of the good shopkeeper, James B., when his careless son happened to break a square of glass? If you have been present at such a scene,… That Which is Seen, and That Which is Not Seen; by Frederic Bastiat
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that do not have brains enough to be honest. –Benjamin Franklin
Hat tip to the Mises Institute. From the Foreword to the German Edition of Keynes’ General Theory: The theory of aggregate production, which is the point of the following book, nevertheless can be much easier adapted… Keynesianism Loves the Total State