Mises Institute
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
 
 
Federal Spending Is Only Going Up: Trump Pushes Trillion-Dollar Defense Budget
Ryan McMaken
It’s looking more and more like this playbook is following the exact same story that we’ve witnessed during every other Republican administration over the past forty years.
 
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Rothbard: The Myth of Tax “Reform”
Murray Rothbard
Our taxes are due. It’s a reminder that we must get past the tax reformers’ favorite ploy of revenue neutrality. There is no such thing as a neutral tax, the state is simply empowered to extract resources from the private economy and transfer them to itself and its beneficiaries.
 
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The Problems
of Inflation
 
Printed paper is the least fit to serve as money. Paper destroys the monetary system.
 
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Haunted Donations
 
Government intervention erodes generosity at its roots, replacing genuine charity with the spectacle of philanthro-cronyism.
 
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The Tariff Tax Statistic the Trump Fanboys Don’t Want You to Know About
It was the absence of income taxation and a minimal regulatory regime that were the most important policy issues related to post-Civil War growth.
 
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Provoked? What about Gaslighting?
Was Russia provoked into the war in Ukraine? Certainly. However, gaslighting was involved as well, perpetrated by the government and the establishment media against the American people.
 
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Demystifying Tariffs
Thanks to President Trump’s brinkmanship, tariffs are in the headlines. However, while the public knows about tariffs, few people actually understand them, their history, and how they work.
 
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Individuals in Society
 
Inequality isn’t injustice—it’s the natural result of individual differences.
 
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The Betrayal
of the American Right
 
Murray Rothbard tells the untold story of a lost tradition: a pro-liberty, anti-war right that was sidelined by the rise of statism, empire, and big-government conservatism.
 
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