Government philosophy centers on ‘mandatory vs. voluntary’
Is the citizen a serf, beholden and controlled by his own government? Our first reaction is absolutely not. Upon reflection,…
Which branch of government should have the most power?
”I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think…
The Laffer Curve More Relevant Today Than Ever
At a time of an ever-increasing popularity of redistributive measures of income and wealth, Arthur Laffer’s tax rate theory, comes…
The fraud that is property tax
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