All Posts Tagged With: "class warfare"
Plunder! How Public Employee Unions Are Raiding Treasuries, Controlling Our Lives and Bankrupting the Nation
Karl Marx was right—sort of. He was right in saying that society is riven by class warfare, but he got the classes wrong. It’s not the case that capitalists exploit workers, but rather that tax consumers exploit taxpayers. That truth has long been kept hidden from the average American by deceptive propaganda about the workings [...]
29Jun2010 | George C. Leef | 1 comment | ContinuedA Man Who Knew the Value of Liberty
[This column was adapted from one published first by the Mackinac Center for Public Policy on its website in February 2007.] A television audience in the millions will feast on the glitz and glamor of Hollywood when the 81st Annual Academy Awards are bestowed February 22. My thoughts will be elsewhere that Sunday night—on a [...]
20Jan2009 | Lawrence W. Reed | 7 comments | ContinuedThe Progressive Income Tax in U.S. History
America’s founders rejected the income tax entirely, but when they spoke of taxes they recognized the need for uniformity and equal protection to all citizens. “[A]ll duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States,” reads the U.S. Constitution. And 80 years later, in the same spirit, the Fourteenth Amendment promised “equal protection [...]
1May2003 | Burton W. Folsom Jr. | 43 comments | ContinuedWorkin’ on the Chain Gang: Shaking Off the Dead Hand of History by Walter Mosley
Ballantine Books • 2000 • 118 pages • $16.95 Walter Mosley, author of the Easy Rawlins mysteries, departs from the detective genre to offer us Workin’ on the Chain Gang: Shaking off the Dead Hand of History. This economic diatribe is part of Ballantine’s misnamed “Library of Contemporary Thought,” for there is nothing contemporary about [...]
1Jun2001 | E. Frank Stephenson | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Secret Hate in Hate Crimes
Contributing editor Lowell Ponte is a national radio talk show host and a columnist for David Horowitz’s FrontPageMag.com. A variety of recent laws and policies, such as university “speech codes,” have been imposed with the proclaimed goal of prohibiting “hate.” They have set forth punishments for acts and crimes motivated by hatred based on a [...]
1Feb2001 | Lowell Ponte | 4 comments | ContinuedStatistics: A Vehicle for Collectivist Mischief
John Wenders is professor of economics at the University of Idaho. Sir John Cowperthwaite served in Britain’s administration of Hong Kong for over 25 years. From 1961 to 1971 he was Hong Kong’s financial secretary, a position that gave him vast power over that colony’s economic affairs. It was under his guidance that the theory [...]
1Jun1998 | John T. Wenders | 0 comments | ContinuedMises’s Legacy for Feminists
The name of the eminent Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises does not commonly arise in feminist circles, which tend to view the free market as an institution through which men as a class oppress women as a class. If the subject of Mises ever did arise, the political incorrectness of his observations on female nature [...]
1Sep1997 | Wendy McElroy | 1 comment | ContinuedThe Futility of Class Warfare
With the collapse of socialism both as a theory and as a practical system of economic organization the world over, one might expect the rhetoric of class warfare to subside as well. But class warfare is alive and well in prominent academic circles and the mainstream national media.
It’s a familiar refrain: capitalism is doing itself in by concentrating wealth in the hands of a few. Saving the system from its own sins requires an activist government to intervene to make sure more people get their share of the economic pie.
1Jun1997 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedOriginal Intent and the Income Tax
Entrepreneurs drive the economy. By creating and investing in new businesses, ideas, and innovations, the entrepreneur ensures economic renewal and growth. Unfortunately, the federal government has an economically unhealthy habit of throwing obstacles in the path of entrepreneurs, such as burdensome regulations and inflationary monetary policies. Perhaps the most formidable government barrier, though, is the [...]
1Feb1996 | Raymond J. Keating | 3 comments | ContinuedOnce Again, Freedom Is at Fault
“The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance,” was how John Philpot Curran put it. Sure enough, but there are different kinds of vigilance. My experience suggests that one of the most important forms in a relatively free society such as ours is to unfailingly meet arguments promoting the violation [...]
1Feb1996 | Tibor R. Machan | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Tax Racket: Government Extortion from A to Z
Every tax levied by government somehow distorts economic decision-making and drains resources away from productive private-sector ventures. As Jean-Baptiste Say succinctly observed in his Treatise on Political Economy, “Taxes and restrictive measures never can be a benefit: they are at best a necessary evil. . . .” Living in a misguided century, where big government [...]
1Jan1996 | Raymond J. Keating | 0 comments | Continued-
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