Are there any “good” reasons to not shop at Wal-Mart? We have been given plenty of “bad” reasons by the likes of not only New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and Sojourners magazine, but also our friends at Chronicles and The American Conservative magazines, who are parroting the far left. According to them, Wal-Mart destroys jobs, puts mom &
In his new book, Flat Tax Revolution (Regnery, 2005), which is subtitled Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS , Steve Forbes pulls no punches when describing the federal income tax code: A monster of a system. Abominably, appallingly confusing. A multi-headed hydra of countless brackets, deductions, and exemptions. Our horrifically heavy,
Advocates of replacing the income tax with the FairTax — a consumption tax in the form of a national retail sales tax (NRST) on new goods and services — regularly point to the complexity of the tax code, the millions of hours and dollars wasted on compliance costs, the evils of the withholding tax, and the abuses of the IRS to bolster their case
En su nuevo libro, Flat Tax Revolution (Regnery, 2005), subtitulado Utilizando una postal para abolir Hacienda , Steve Forbes no ahorra golpes al describir el código federal del impuesto de la renta: Un sistema monstruoso. Abominable y asombrosamente confuso. Una hidra de múltiples cabezas con incontables tramos, deducciones y exenciones.
What is the Mises Institute?
The Mises Institute is a non-profit organization that exists to promote teaching and research in the Austrian School of economics, individual freedom, honest history, and international peace, in the tradition of Ludwig von Mises and Murray N. Rothbard.
Non-political, non-partisan, and non-PC, we advocate a radical shift in the intellectual climate, away from statism and toward a private property order. We believe that our foundational ideas are of permanent value, and oppose all efforts at compromise, sellout, and amalgamation of these ideas with fashionable political, cultural, and social doctrines inimical to their spirit.