Taxes and Spending

Public works as a cure for unemployment: proposed, debated, and defended with arguments that would sound familiar a century later.

Mass unemployment gave the protectionists their best argument in a generation, and they nearly won.

California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state's billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 billion, if passed, it likely will crash in the same manner that wealth taxes in other countries like Sweden and Colombia have done.

The majority of our elected officials who spend our tax dollars are debt addicts. Their reckless policies, if continued, will destroy the nation.

California is looking to impose a new wealth tax to fleece the state's billionaires. While supporters of the tax claim it will raise more than $100 billion, if passed, it likely will crash in the same manner that wealth taxes in other countries like Sweden and Colombia have done.

JP Cortez argues fiat money is a hidden theft, and that the fix is a bottom-up, state-level push to remove the taxes and rules that stop Americans from freely choosing gold and silver.

Ryan, Tho, and Dr. Jonathan Newman discuss recent economics headlines, including interventions to prop up the yen, a bad jobs report, and troubling signs in bond markets.

California’s proposed billionaire wealth tax is being sold to voters as a way to replenish the state’s tax coffers with billions of new dollars. What it actually will do is to end the vital capital investment that has driven California’s economy for decades.

Some claim that if socialists understood economics they wouldn't be socialists. This is doubtful since the larger motivation is often political control.

The Universal Basic Income (UBI) is a bad idea that just won't die. Time to throw it on the ash heap of bad policies.