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** SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 2022
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The income tax is especially bad because it requires all to account to the government for their income-earning activities under threat of penalty. This inquisitorial device ought to be seen as intolerable in a theoretically free country.
— Sheldon Richman, "TGIF: The Coming New and Improved IRS ([link removed]) " [2022]
** HORNBERGER'S BLOG
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August 11, 2022
Invoking the Fifth ([link removed])
Driven by their extreme anti-Trump animus — which rivals their extreme anti-Russia and anti-China animuses — the anti-Trump crowd is up in arms over Trump’s decision to take the Fifth Amendment in a deposition that was part of an investigation into his finances by the New York attorney general, Leticia James. They are mocking and ridiculing Trump for refusing to answer James’s questions, ...
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** EXPLORE FREEDOM
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TAXATION
TGIF: The Coming New and Improved IRS ([link removed])
by Sheldon Richman
Libertarian Institute
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Protectionism Is Frittering Away Defense Dollars ([link removed])
by Colin Grabow
Cato Institute
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Pelosi’s Taiwan Trip Heightens the US-China Perceptual Dilemma ([link removed])
by Christopher J. Coyne
Independent Institute
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The Sphere of Economic Calculation ([link removed])
by Ludwig von Mises
Mises Institute
The Effects of Minimum Wage on Productivity ([link removed])
by Michael Peterson
Foundation for Economic Education
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Why You Shouldn’t Need a Doctor’s Permission to Get Prescription Drugs ([link removed])
by Walter Block
Foundation for Economic Education
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A Tale of Two Liberties ([link removed])
by Oliver Adamson
Mises Institute
How Scientific American Got Woke ([link removed])
by Michael Shermer with
Nick Gillespie
Reason
FBI, R.I.P.? ([link removed])
by Victor Davis Hanson
Independent Institute
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The Inflation Reduction Act Barely Puts a Dent in the Deficit ([link removed])
by Eric Boehm and Regan Taylor
Reason
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