[From the Journal of Libertarian Studies 12, no. 2 (Fall 1996).] Introduction Why The Welfare State? Yankee Postmillennial Pietism Yankee Women: The Driving Force Gradual Secularization of Postmillennial Pietism Yankee Women Progressives The New Deal The Rockefellers and Social Security Introduction Standard theory views government as functional:
The Free Market 3, no. 6 (June 1986) Hosannas have poured in from all parts of the academic spectrum — left, right, and center — hailing the Treasury’s draft plan as an approach to the ideal of the “flat tax.” (Since the plan calls for three classes of income tax rates, it has been called a “flat tax with bumps.”) This near-unanimity should not
[Rothbard wrote this in 1950.] Whether the American war effort remains “partial” or eventually becomes “total,” methods of mobilization are rapidly becoming our most pressing economic problem. Obviously, mobilization for war inevitably involves hardships for the populace, and lowered standards of living for the duration of the war effort. The
[This unsigned editorial, written by Murray N. Rothbard, appeared in the April 15, 1969, issue of The Libertarian (soon to become The Libertarian Forum ).] April 15, that dread Income Tax day, is around again, and gives us a chance to ruminate on the nature of taxes and of the government itself. The first great lesson to learn about taxation is
Every day that passes brings further evidence, in the marvelous phrase of Bill Kauffman in Chronicles , of “the enormous gulf between those who live in America and those who run it.” We who live in America are firmly convinced that we are taxed far too much, that government spending and taxation are eating out our substance to support a growing
[ From Power and Market. ] Uniformity of treatment has been upheld as an ideal by almost all writers. This ideal is supposed to be implicit in the concept of “equality before the law,” which is best expressed in the phrase, “Like to be treated alike.” To most economists this ideal has seemed self-evident, and the only problems considered have been
Volume 4, No. 1 (Spring 2001) We must all be grateful to Professors Walter J. Blum and Harry J. Kalven , Jr . for providing in a brief space a cogent review and critique of the various arguments for progressive taxation, together with an extensive and valuable bibliography of the varying points of view. We must also be grateful to discover
For two years we have been instructed by the radical opposition at Berkeley on the evils of the swollen and gigantic multiversity that constitutes the University of California: the vast bureaucracy, the impersonality, the emphasis on quantity, the use of the multiversity to process swelling numbers of students into the military-industrial complex.
The Free Market 8, no. 6 (June 1990) Riots in the streets; protest against a hated government; cops arresting protesters. A familiar story these days. But suddenly we find that the protests are directed, not against a hated Communist tyranny in Eastern Europe, but against Mrs. Thatcher’s regime in Britain, a supposed paragon of liberty and the
The Free Market 8, no. 12 (December 1990) In politics fall, not spring, is the silly season. How many times have we seen the farce: the crisis deadline in October, the budget “summit” between the Executive and Congress, and the piteous wails of liberals and centrists that those wonderful, hardworking, dedicated “federal workers” may be
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