Archive for Murray Sabrin
Wealth and Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes
When the father of the world’s richest individual and the cofounder of an outfit called United for a Fair Economy get together to write a defense of the estate tax, the result is one of the worst books ever written in American history about a public-policy issue. Although Gates and Collins have written a tract [...]
8Jul2010 | Murray Sabrin | 0 comments | ContinuedIf Americans Really Understood the Income Tax: Uncovering Our Most Expensive Ignorance
At first glance, John O. Fox’s book on the income tax, which has a dust jacket featuring the U.S. Capitol and a magnifying glass focusing on a 1040 form, promised to be a hard-hitting critique. I was eager to read what I hoped would be an insightful and penetrating analysis of taxation by a tax [...]
1Jul2002 | Murray Sabrin | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Welfare State: No Mercy for the Middle Class by John McKay
Liberty Books • 1995 • 298 pages • $22.00 Dr. Sabrin is professor of finance, Ramapo College of New Jersey, and author of Tax Free 2000: The Rebirth of American Liberty. If policymakers want to learn about the debilitating effects of the welfare state, John McKay’s readable and passionate defense of limited government is a [...]
1Jun1997 | Murray Sabrin | 2 comments | ContinuedFree Enterprise Moves East: Doing Business from Prague to Vladivostok
Dr. Sabrin is professor of finance at Ramapo College of New Jersey and author of Tax Free 2000: The Rebirth of American Liberty. The genie is out of the bottle. From the heart of Central Europe to the easternmost regions of the former Soviet Union, the capitalist revolution has taken root—deeply in some areas, less [...]
1Dec1996 | Murray Sabrin | 0 comments | Continued-
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JPMorgan Chase and Casino Banking
JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the nation’s leading banks, revealed in May that a London trader racked... Read More
Individualism, Trade-Unions, and “Self-Governing Combinations”
Who do you imagine said this? “[Trade-unions] seem natural to the passing phase of social evolution,... Read More
Bubbles, Malinvestment, and Higher Education
Many commentators are asking whether the next big bubble to burst will be the debt associated with the... Read More
JPMorgan’s Blunder Is No Market Failure
I am not going to try to defend JPMorgan Chase for its recent, widely reported financial blunders. ... Read More
For Equality; Against Privilege
This TGIF originally ran July 7, 2006. The freedom philosophy can be boiled down to two phrases: for... Read More
