Archive for the ‘Taxes’ Category
Two Mises columns that expose economic follies
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Thomas DiLorenzo exposes the moranic follies and the total immorality contained in a ludicrous article in Time magazine about how the next president should fix our economy. I have a feeling that if I had read the vacuous Time article without knowing where it came from, without knowing it was ...
TANSTAAFSTVARS
Friday, May 9th, 2008BBC News claims, "A free satellite television and radio service backed by the BBC and ITV launches across the UK." I hope even my non-libertarian friends aren't fooled by any government's claim that something is "free"; obviously it is funded by money that was taken at the point of a ...
Harry Reid doesn’t know what force is
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008Aaron Kinney at Radical Libertarian posted this video of Senate majority leader Harry Reid insisting that income taxation is not forcible. His comment on the video was: "Harry Reid is a confused, stupid man."
Stocks before whore, everyone’s poor
Thursday, March 27th, 2008The March 17 Daily Show had a great couple of segments on the idiotic federal government and Federal Reserve and the recession the United States is in. A rerun of this ran tonight at 8:00, which is why I'm blagging about it now. Talking about the $600 tax refund the State ...
Bar-stool economics
Thursday, March 20th, 2008The tax system of our country analogized to pub-goers. Kelly: To discover the only reason I deemed this link worthy of posting on our blag, notice who its author is. Hat tip: Radley Balko.
The collapse of the nation-state
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Gary North wrote a fantastic column explaining why he thinks the central government of the United States will slowly decay until it collapses, and why he expects minarchism to return to this country during the lives of his grandchildren. He starts out with a list of government functions that libertarians ...
MSN’s class-warfare-mongering
Monday, January 14th, 2008On MSN.com today, the link to an article in their "Money" section read, "New tax break helps the richest." Um, isn't that another way of saying, "New tax break helps the people who pay the taxes"? The article is about a tax break on mortgage renegotiations and foreclosures that will ...
I just don’t understand
Monday, December 24th, 2007When I was at a friend's apartment for a Christmas party, the subject of paying taxes came up (it's a long story, it was during a game, not a political discussion, so only I, with my obsession with libertarianism and politics, probably read anything into it). This girl who is ...