from FEE

The process that led the House to vote for new legislation was a confused calamity.

You earn more than just your wage, and the things you spend your wage on cost less than they used to.

Do you want your customers to leave feeling fancy, or efficient? You have the power to decide that.

Under communism, tyranny is a feature, not a bug.

Oswald was a fraud.

Markets can't deliver equality, but they can deliver fairness.

For politicians, regardless of party alliance, freedom is always an afterthought when it comes to taxation.

Imagine what could happen if the UK kept all the money it sends to the EU each year, and spent it on the country instead.

As life proceeds, you collect ever-more interesting observations about how things work: things you cannot fathom in youth but which you gradually come to realize later in life.

And what's the difference between PC and polite?

Life would have been poor, nasty, brutish, and short, even if not solitary.

"Liberty in Brazil is just beginning its rise."

Have you ever really stopped to consider why the Galactic Empire in "Star Wars" is actually bad?

War, tyranny, and terror in the first two Star Wars trilogies.

It may be summarized as person, property, and consent, the individual’s dominion that others are presumptively not to mess with.

Governments are rigging the markets and skimming off the earnings via taxes.

Its prosperity is built on our backs.

Giving the state authority over mental illnesses is a dangerous threat to civil liberties.

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Unfortunately, it's likely that students have learned their uncompromising technique from the people who are supposed to teach them otherwise: their teachers.

Today our taxes have names like "Federal Income Tax" and "State Sales Tax" instead of "State Representative's Paycheck" and "Muh Roads."

How should we balance the budget? Should we raise taxes? Should we cut spending? Should we—excuse me, pardon me—cut taxes and spending.

So if there is no rational case for communism as such, why do people go for this stuff?

Congress and Mr. Trump both make it difficult to be optimistic about tax cuts.

Do not aim to destroy the exchanges that have created specific cultures.

The Front Républicain's plan to stop Le Pen may ultimately backfire.

These are the new totalitarians in our midst. They are the secular religious fanatics on a mission.

I'm angry because I'm woke, duh!

Kinshasa is an extreme example of how Africa is urbanizing without globalizing.

Sessions' prohibition-era mindset is so outdated, even Congress isn't having it.

At least four plot lines seemed promising but then strangely fizzled into nothingness.

19th century education reformers were deeply afraid of parental authority

Occupational Licensure has got to go.

This is how we protect the environment (and still get good sushi).

Balance of trade arguments are superficially appealing, but completely baseless.

Venezuelan society is breaking down.

Why it was virtually inevitable and quite predictable.

Before everyone had a smartphone, bulky camcorders sparked the revolution of filming authority.

Libertarians are not unwelcome invaders, but rather champions of the continued progress in the world that the Catholic Church itself aims to serve and support.

Chile's on the rise. Unfortunately, most of Europe isn't.

Today we spell hero L.B.R.Y.

So why do taxes punish investors for doing what we need them to do?

Licensing is about little more than consumer exploitation.

Microloans create new and direct connections between economic classes.

Short-sellers are the market's policemen.

Rent control is immune from owners' escaping by voting with their feet.

The worship of authority is antithetical to liberty and it blocks real progress.

Our digital identities are broken, but we can fix them.

"Buy American, Hire American" is a war on the American people of the non-shooting kind.

If fairness is the concern, then markets are the solution.