Taxpayers will get efficient government only to the extent that they demand it at the ballot box.
Minnesota has the fifth highest top rate of state personal income tax in the United States, our state’s lowest personal income tax rate is higher than the highest rate in 25…
In a recent interview, former Vice President Joe Biden said "Milton Friedman isn't running the show anymore" We might be better off if he was.
The attempt to get anything we desire designated as a 'right' which someone must provide for us is not a new one. Back in 1972, the economist Milton Friedman tackled…
The Bible tells us that Joshua brought down the walls of Jericho with the blast of seven trumpets. This charming new memoir by András Simonyi tells us how the opening…
How pop culture accelerated the fall of Communism.
One man's journey from first rate academic economist to tedious, partisan bore.
The National Education Association (NEA) has voiced support for the Family Stability and Opportunity Vouchers Act, introduced in December by Senators Todd Young (R-IN) and Chris Van Hollen (D-MD). But what…
Another day, another scandal at Minnesota's DHS.
The battle over charter schools today is largely due, I believe, to a misunderstanding of the charter school idea and its purpose.
Surely, when San Francisco's politicians passed rent control laws they didn't intend to increase income inequality in the city. But that is what happened. Once again, we see the truth…
Minimum wage hikes intend to raise incomes for low paid workers, but that does not mean that they do.
If you don't believe in government planning, what do you believe in? Milton Friedman gave us the answer.
“Every contractor wants to come work for St. Paul Public Schools because it’s frickin’ open checkbook”. Why is government so careless with your hard earned cash?
Minnesotans are some of the hardest working citizens in America. At a time when the state’s politicians have never had it so good in terms of revenue, they should not…
“Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another” - Milton Friedman
The Magic Money Tree which will pay for trillions of dollars of new spending has a new name: Modern Monetary Theory
Sen. Sanders took a laptop costing a few hundred dollars and produced Our Revolution: A Future to Believe In, for which he was paid $795,000.
Should we persist with policies like increased minimum wages and 'Ban the box' laws because their intentions are noble, or do we junk them because their outcomes are harmful?
“Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another” - Milton Friedman
Belief in minimum wage hikes is about as close to belief in Milton Friedman's mythical 'free lunch' as you will find. They seem to offer the prospect of benefits for…
Taxes are incentives. If we tax something, we get less of it. Indeed, this is what so-called 'sin taxes' are based on. High rates of taxation on income from investment -…
Higher tax rates don't necessarily mean higher tax revenues. Examples of this abound. Corporate tax revenues went up in Britain after the government cut corporate tax rates and in Canada high-income…
The economist Milton Friedman once said that "Nobody spends somebody else's money as wisely as he spends his own". That is one reason why it beast to let people spend as money of their…