Politics

It is not a new tax. It is simply a tax that nearly everyone currently reading this column is successfully evading without prosecution.

Do infant industries need tariffs to protect them from their own inefficiency and stupidity?

Perhaps we would be economically better off with global trade, but do we have an obligation to maintain a higher moral standard?

Is economic freedom related to other kinds of freedoms? Does economic freedom affect personal choice?

Have you ever wondered why the CPI, GDP and employment numbers run counter to your personal and business experiences? The problem lies in biased and often-manipulated government reporting.

President’s proposal comes with silver linings for shrewd advisors

$3 million today has the same buying power as $500,000 in 1970.

America will continue to lose jobs where we don’t have a comparative advantage and gain jobs where we do. This change should be welcome.

Let me tell you how it will be: There’s one for you, nineteen for me. Should five per cent appear too small, Be thankful I don’t take it all.

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.” – Vladimir Lenin.

Without any authorizing legislation, the U.S. government has quietly taken more value than Cyprus tried and failed to confiscate.

As one of Forbes’s 25 largest fictional companies, Stark International could avoid $4 billion in U.S. corporate taxes with this one simple technique.

David John Marotta was interviewed on radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show in March to discuss balancing the national budget, and whether raising taxes is a good method to increase revenue to match spending.

If you’ve disagreed with our most recent two articles on free trade, then I challenge you to respond to these questions. Anyone?

Average Americans think about trade imbalances the wrong way. They have it exactly backward.

Anti-dumping rules are supposed to protect domestic producers and domestic jobs from unscrupulous foreign competition, but anti-dumping rules raise prices for their consumers and producers, shrink profits, and reduce the capacity of firms to invest, expand, and hire more workers.

All I want is a simple cup of coffee near where I work. Is that asking too much of free trade?

David John Marotta was interviewed recently on radio 1070’s WINA Schilling Show discussing property rights and their importance for a free society.

If you could only pick one, would you like to buy a ripe tomato or a local one?

Daniel J. Mitchell of the CATO Institute wrestles with the lack of no historical data to support the Starve the Beast model, only to find out that it’s because politicians have never really given it a shot.

The only two ways to balance the federal budget are to spend less or to collect more. Spending less is the preferred method, but that is just not happening. As a result, politics is pushing many in Congress to try to balance the budget by raising taxes.

Do any of these ideas suggest any incentive for the highly productive to continue producing?

Even to conservative political parties, starving the beast is not the ideal solution.

This kitten doesn’t rely on government. Be more like this kitten.

“Until the deficit is eliminated from our budget, … there is no end to inflation; there is finally no end to taxation; and the eventual result would, of course, be catastrophe.”

Studies suggest that $1.5 trillion is wasted on public sector rent-seeking.

Even if democracy is the principal objective, encourage the rule of law.

This kitten knows money doesn’t grow on trees. Be more like this kitten.

Property rights are among the characteristics most correlated with high levels of per capita gross domestic product (GDP).

Does a property owner have the right to use and dispose of his property as he sees fit even if that means he is being irrational, arbitrary, capricious, even unjust?

The recent AIG marketing campaign makes my skin crawl. In what they are calling “America’s Profit,“ AIG boasts that repayment of the bailouts created a positive return for taxpayers.

This kitten understands TANSTAAFL. Be more like this kitten.

Claims of “fair” or even “regressive” or “progressive” depend very much on what is used as the denominator.

The income tax penalizes productivity, discourages hard work, and suppresses investment.

The political party platforms on gun control and gun rights for 2012.

Currently homicides are largely committed by minority men age 18 to 39 with criminal records in urban areas killing others in the same demographic.

Here are the 2008 party platforms on the environment

The worst marriage penalty is for couples earning between $26,000 and $60,000 who have three or more children.

Stewardship suggests limits on how people ought to rule over their environment. It is not a justification for bureaucrats’ limitless rule over people.

You cannot argue this increased tax is their “fair share” simply because they are married.

To fulfill the financial resolutions of spending less, living within our means, and paying off our debt, the country first needs to encourage production rather than discourage it.

One of the strange and unintended consequences of targeting the rich with more taxes will be a greater gap between the rich and the poor as employees will shoulder their fair share no matter what.

Studies suggest that both a gambling addiction and success in politics correlate with psychopathic behavior. Had Dickens included a gambler personality in a Christmas Carol, it would have been a different story.

David John Marotta was interviewed on radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show on December 11, 2012 discussing the Fiscal Cliff, rising taxation, and economic discrimination.

Will millions of middle income consumers spending $2,200 each have a greater stimulus than thousands of small business entrepreneurs saving and investing $100,000 each in new ventures? You decide after watching this holiday video from EconStories.

Few of us ever think about how the Ninth Amendment preserves all of our rights not cited in the Constitution. What are some examples of these unenumerated rights?

Obama would have you believe that $2,200 is a fiscal cliff, but $119,878 is just paying their fair share.

It is a crisis fabricated 100% by politicians. And avoiding the fiscal cliff is being used hypocritically for additional political gain.

With the enormous increase in the taxation of dividends, high net worth investors may be tempted to abandon dividend-paying stocks entirely. This is not necessary.

“I was talking to a doctor in town who said he was surprised how many patients he had seen with clinical depression over the election results. I believe the definition of clinical is the thought that ‘Things will never be good again.'”