The Free Market 26, no. 7 (July 2005) Did you have to write out a check to the IRS for $5,581 this past April 15? If you had to do such a thing next year, would you think of it as your civic duty or would you consider it a crime that only the government could get away with? A Typical Taxpayer This figure of $5,581 is not an arbitrary one.
The Free Market 26, no. 10 (October 2005) The fifteenth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, signed into law by President Bush I on July 26, 1990, has come and gone, but it has not been a success. It has cost untold billions, increased the pestilence of labor disputes, and even increased the ranks of the unemployed among the
Thousands of workers in five states and the District of Columbia are getting a raise today, but not because of the generosity of their employers or because they have suddenly become more productive. That relic from FDR’s New Deal, the minimum wage, increases today in the District of Columbia and the states of Illinois, New York, Oregon, Vermont,
Not all handicapped people are in favor of handicapped parking. In response to my recent article, “ The State Conquers the Parking Lot ,” a handicapped individual writes the following: I have a handicapped parking ticket and guess what? I absolutely agree with you. In fact, I often try to avoid using the designated spots, because it doesn’t feel
If you haven’t subscribed to the Journal of Libertarian Studies because you thought the price of $29.95 was too high then consider this: the ad in the December 1976 issue of The Libertarian Forum advertising the new JLS to be published beginning in 1977 says that the price is $20. That is only a $9.95 increase in almost 30
I highly recommend that everyone watch or listen to the wonderful series of lectures being given right now at the Mises Institute by Walter Block. I had the pleasure of attending the lectures on Monday. Although Dr. Block was not talking about war, he made a joke about Canada’s military that I thought was profound. He said something to the effect
The Florida sales tax holiday has ended. From 12:01 a.m. on July 23 to midnight on July 31, House Bill 101 provided for a sales tax holiday on: Clothing and related items with a sales price of $50 or less Books with a sales price of $50 or less School supplies with a sales price of $10 or less Naturally, the shelves at my local Wal-Mart were
House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) sent a letter to the president earlier this week requesting that he drop tariffs on Canadian softwood lumber and Mexican cement. He points out that “the softwood lumber tariff alone adds at least $1,000 to the average new home.” If that is the case then why wait for a hurricane to drop the tariffs? Get rid of
The Francis Wayland Institute is now up and running (or at least the website is). The Institute is named after Francis Wayland (1796-1865), the Baptist minister who wrote the free market textbook, The Elements of Political Economy (fourth ed. was 1841). The Francis Wayland Institute is a think tank in the intellectual tradition of Francis Wayland
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.