King of France from 1643 to 1715
Don’t blame corporations for their decisions to flee the United States’ punitive tax climate. That’s the message from Thomas Donlan in his latest Barron’s editorial commentary. Some American politicians are…
In an essay reminiscent of key arguments advanced by the Rational Optimist, Marian Tupy of the Cato Institute reminds us just how much our lives have improved. Today, most Americans…
Paris-based writer and entrepreneur Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry warns readers in the latest edition of Commentary magazine that this country is transforming itself in ways that are uncomfortably familiar to the French.…
Michael Tanner‘s latest column at National Review Online employs a headline translating French King Louis XIV’s famous quote into “The State, It Is I.” Tanner’s inspiration for the historical allusion…
Barack Obama’s forthcoming trip to Africa is going to cost the American taxpayers a huge sum — upwards of $100 million. Read about it here. Is it worth this amount?…
Reason magazine editor Nick Gillespie dissects Obama’s inaugural address here. I especially like Gillespie’s line about how Obama loves “the royal we.” Just like monarchs of old who would say…
Hans Bader has a good piece here on the manifold ways in which the policies the Obama administration is pursuing inhibit job creation. In fact, they tend to do the…
If you?ve read this forum regularly in recent weeks, you?ve encountered John Locke Foundation experts? research debunking arguments for proposed sales-tax increases in nearly a dozen counties across the state…
I agree that inequality is not necessarily bad, but object to Hasset’s formulation that if “a society” directed most of the rewards towards the wealthy, that would be bad. “Society”…
Thomas Sowell’s column today delves into the subject of taxes. He points out the Econ 101 lesson that few people understand (and virtually no politicians) — the money taxed away…
The author of this Mises Daily article contends that taxes on business stifle economic growth. He’s right, but I’d add that all taxes do that, but drawing resources into the…
Rich Lowry today at the National Review takes Justice Kennedy to task on how he reaches a conclusion on cases before the court. Lowry writes: Why did the Founders bother…