In his piece on the corporate income tax, Sheldon Richman cites work by JLF’s Roy Cordato. Here’s a sample: The corporate tax has another serious problem: it constitutes double and…
Bernie Sanders is said to be surging against Hillary Clinton, as many of the true-believer statists in the Democratic Party swoon for a candidate who sounds more deeply committed to…
In this post, Sheldon Richman contemplates the difference between progressives and radicals on the current hot topic of the minimum wage. Progressives see what they regard as a problem (some…
Was Eric Garner a threat to anyone? Yes, observes Sheldon Richman in this column –he was a threat “to politicians who need revenue to play their destructive games and to…
In a recent New York Times Opinionator post, John Edward Terrell made a really feeble attack on libertarian thinking. In his TGIF column, Sheldon Richman hands Terrell his head.
If you think it’s bad when a company just starts doing business with willing customers without first getting government approval. That is the case with regard to Uber in Little…
One of America’s worst mistakes was enacting the 16th Amendment, allowing the federal government to levy an income tax. That has fueled the relentless expansion of our leviathan state ever…
One of the great scholars of classical liberalism, Leonard Liggio, passed away this week. Sheldon Richman here pays tribute to this wonderful man.
In his latest column, Sheldon Richman looks at the impact of World War I on American liberties. The impact, of course, was dreadful. Most of the “progressives” quickly jumped on…
In this piece, Sheldon Richman casts his eye over the Hobby Lobby decision and the furor it has occasioned in some quarters. He argues persuasively that the decision was the…
Sheldon Richman offers his insights on that question in this Reason essay. Cato’s Daniel Mitchell says that Keynesian economic theory is the equivalent of the magical weight-loss pill. Such pills…
The book in question is Murray Rothbard’s The Ethics of Liberty. Read Sheldon Richman’s excellent discussion of the book in this Future of Freedom Foundation article.