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BG1035:  Jobs, Growth, Freedom, and Fairness:  WhyAmerica Needs a Flat Tax

737,734,941,858 Reasons...and Still Counting: Why a Flat Tax IsNeeded To Reform The IRS

Many state and federal statutes provide that when property is used in certain prohibited ways, ownership of the property passes to the government. Often, the statutes allow these forfeitures to be declared in civil proceedings against the property itself, without the normal safeguards of the criminal process. Indeed, if no one claims the property after proper notice, the government’s assertion of ownership can become incontestable without any judicial proceedings at all. Statutes authori...

By James Bovard Federal agencies don’t count what politicians don’t want to know. President Biden and other Democrats continuously invoke “science and data” to sanctify all their Covid-19 mandates and policies, but the same shenanigans and willful omissions have characterized Covid data. During his update on his Winter Covid Campaign on Tuesday, President Biden declared, […]

By James Bovard I have always had a bad attitude toward official secrets regardless of who is keeping them. That prejudice and John Kenneth Galbraith are to blame for an unauthorized withdrawal I made from the World Bank. When I lived in Boston in the late 1970s, I paid $25 to attend a series of […]

When I was still teaching high school courses in American History, AP US History, Political Parties, and Political Philosophy, I would have my students carefully read and complete this essay assignment. Read it for yourself and reflect upon how you would answer the two questions at the end.   THE DECLARATION AND OUR CIVIC CONSCIENCE By Charles Burris One of the major objectives of this course is for each student to engage in a careful and measured, disinterested, reflection upon what it mea...

By James Bovard The Biden administration is embracing the same flawed “fair trade” mantra that previous administrations used to sanctify protectionist po

By James Bovard “Beatings will continue until morale improves” has morphed from an old joke to the latest prescription for national salvation. “Compulsory National Service Could Unite America,” whooped a New York Times Op-ed headline last week. Prominent media outlets, think tanks, and too many professors and former generals are calling for government to commandeer a year of young Americans’ lives to forcibly restore their faith in the political system. Rep. John Delaney made a one-ye...

The Kosher Gourmet by Nick Malgieri: Chocolate molten delight with creme anglaise is a simple yet elegant make-ahead dessert "The power to tax," asserted Chief Justice John Marshall in McCulloch vs. Maryland, a landmark 1819 Supreme Court decision, "involves the power to destroy." It is a timeless truth. As a tax assessor under Ivan the Terrible, one of the ruthless oprichniki, recorded in his diary: "I did no harm to anyone today; I was resting." Taxes destroy in many ways. When they are too...