Thomas G. Shearman before the Ways & Means Subcommittee on Internal Revenue (1893)

It's important to differentiate the 16th Amendment from the Revenue Act of 1913, also among taxation litigation and legislation.

Some “back-of-the-envelope” estimates and important findings.

The cost of a UBI is often greatly exaggerated, because people are tempted to think the cost of UBI is the size of the grant multiplied by the size of the population.

The Real Excess Burden: An Overarching Approach

The US political cycle has turned from globalist welfare-statism to nationalist ethnic-statism.

Deplorable taxes make people poorer, yet few oppose them.

Yet another regulation is being proposed, to treat effects rather than cure the cause of capital flight.

Minimum wage laws have a superficial appeal, but are much less effective than the earned income tax credit.

A hidden purpose of proposals for vehicle distance taxes is the elimination of taxes on land value.

The principles of a good tax system point to land value taxation as optimal

The sales tax has a long and fractured history. It doesn’t make sense to repeat it.

The taxes we pay can include some of the rent.

Advocates of a national sales tax falsely claim that the tax is voluntary, and do not understand the implications.

The alternatives of taxing income versus spending is a fallacy of the excluded option.

Economist Fred Harrison talks with conservationist Peter Smith about how the economy produces environmental disasters, and what solutions can create a environmental sustainability.

There is enough for all of us. But will we look in the right places?

It's possible to pay for public goods without taxation in substance.

Some U.S. Senators seek to terminate Internet Tax Freedom, which would stifle the benefits we have enjoyed.

The Supreme Court ruled that rights may not be taxed. Therefore the right to engage in labor should not be taxed.