POLITICS

The 2018 tariffs imposed by President Trump on imports from China and other countries had already resulted in the direct transfer of tens of billions of dollars from U.S. businesses to government coffers.

Ayn Rand’s writings brought about an ethical and practical revolution in my thinking

Throughout the 19th century, a primary means for the provision of what today we call the “social safety nets” was by the private sector outside of government.

Keep government out of labor markets, so long as people stick to their contracts and refrain from violence.

Let’s examine these killers’ motives and means so we can reduce the possibility of more such shootings and reduce their lethality. But blaming Trump is lazy, dishonest and bigoted.

It was French king Louis XIV who declared, “L’etat c’est moi” (“I am the state”), indicating his insistence that he possessed absolute power over his subjects. This attitude is shared by Donald Trump, president of the United States.

Most reporters don’t like free markets, and politicians rarely talk about change they don’t control.

The Trump sanctioned agreement to suspend the debt ceiling and push annual deficits even further above the trillion dollar mark may only succeed in destroying the Republican Party as we know it.

American “nationalism,” if we are to call it this, is neither identity-politics socialism nor this newly proclaimed “conservative” national socialism. It was, and should be, an allegiance to individual liberty and unlimited economic freedom of trade and association for all things peaceful.

“[T]he political system is most conducive to the public good in which the rightful liberty of the individual is least abridged.”

How a political push to justify increased taxation has afflicted the entire economic inequality debate.

Keep in mind what “progressive” means in this political context: an increase in the size, scope, and cost of government in American society.

Instead of assuming that we’re in the midst of a surging inequality crisis, we should first settle more fundamental issues affecting the accuracy of our measurements over the past century.