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** THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2023
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The mounting burden of taxation not only undermines individual incentives to increased work and earnings, but in a score of ways discourages capital accumulation and distorts, unbalances, and shrinks production. Total real wealth and income is made smaller than it otherwise would be. On net balance there is more poverty rather than less.
– Henry Hazlitt, The Conquest of Poverty ([link removed]) [1973]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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April 27, 2023
Did the CIA and the Pentagon Put the Quietus on Tucker Carlson? ([link removed])
One hypothesis for why Fox News fired popular television commentator Tucker Carlson is because he had been badmouthing company officials. But are top executives for a major U.S. corporation so sensitive to personal criticism that they’re willing to ditch their most popular commentator for saying some bad things about them? That’s hard to believe. Another hypothesis is that Carlson was also saying bad ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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TAXATION
The Evil of the Income Tax ([link removed])
by Jacob G. Hornberger and
Richard M. Ebeling
Future of Freedom Foundation
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by Andrew P. Napolitano
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Hong Kong and the Limit of U.S. Power ([link removed])
by Doug Bandow
American Conservative
MONETARY POLICY
The Future of Money & Banking: Bitcoin, Fractional Reserve, and Free Markets (Video) ([link removed])
by George Selgin with Kate Wand
AIER
Banking Problems May Be Tip of Debt Iceberg ([link removed])
by Greg Ip
Wall Street Journal
REGULATION
Biden’s Bizarre Mortgage Edict ([link removed])
by James Bovard with Rita Cosby
JimBovard.com
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by Jeff Jacoby
Boston Globe
GUN CONTROL
Gun Rights: A Guide for Kids ([link removed])
by Bryan Caplan
Bet On It
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The Realities of Socialism ([link removed])
by Jason Clemens and Ted Tucker with Roger Ream
Liberty + Leadership
CORPORATISM
A Closer Look at Aircraft Industrial Policy ([link removed])
by Veronique de Rugy
National Review
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