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Biden's Corporate Tax Hike: Populism Versus Economic Literacy Mar. 14, 2024
In the latest volley of policy proposals that seem more rooted in populist rhetoric than economic kn... Read More
Punishing Achievement Is Punishing Everyone Oct. 27, 2021
This week, Democrats settled on an area of apparent commonality: the desire to eat the rich. Accordi... Read More
History Tells Us That Wealth Taxes Don't Work Mar. 25, 2021
With Democrats now in control of the House, Senate and White House, many of the most significant pol... Read More
With Income Gaps Widening and the Virus Raging, It's Time To Talk Wealth Tax Dec. 22, 2020
Here's an interesting bit of coronavirus math: America's billionaires today could give $3,000 apiece... Read More
New Research Confirms Wealth Tax's Deleterious Effects Aug. 20, 2020
Politicians are renowned for their shortsightedness. During the post-war period, for example, Republ... Read More
Violent Crime Is a Confiscatory Wealth Tax Jun. 27, 2020
"What gives urgency to debates about race in America today — and what drives the reparations m... Read More
Let's Not Waste a Crisis May. 13, 2020
Former Barack Obama adviser Rahm Emanuel, during a recent interview, reminded us of his 2008 financi... Read More
Bernie Fears Some Will Seek to Flee If He Succeeds Feb. 20, 2020
Sen. Bernie Sanders manifestly fears that if he succeeds in becoming president and enacting his econ... Read More
Bernie Fears Some Will Seek to Flee If He Succeeds Feb. 19, 2020
Sen. Bernie Sanders manifestly fears that if he succeeds in becoming president and enacting his econ... Read More
Warren and Sanders and the Wealth Tax Folly Jan. 19, 2020
For any problem you can think of, Elizabeth Warren has a plan — usually an expensive one. She ... Read More
Raise Revenues, but Hold the Drama Dec. 12, 2019
Democratic candidates offer two basic approaches to raising revenues for public programs. One is gra... Read More
'Tax the Rich' Is No Longer Just a Political Slogan Dec. 11, 2019
There's nothing inevitable about inequality. It's an injustice that the moneyed powers and their pol... Read More
What's Scaring the Bejeezus out of Billionaires? Dec. 04, 2019
There's a new political army on the march in America, moving forcibly into the 2020 presidential cam... Read More
Envy Is Ugly on Everyone Nov. 28, 2019
The class-warfare suggestion of some political candidates that the super-wealthy are somehow not ent... Read More
Bloomberg, Billionaires and Boobery Nov. 14, 2019
I'd like to personally bop over the head the next Democrat who says that Michael Bloomberg shouldn't... Read More
Candidates' Wealth Tax Proposals Demonstrate Spooky Economic Ignorance Oct. 24, 2019
It's open season on wealth and those who create it. Candidates for the Democratic presidential nomin... Read More
Wealth Tax Aug. 12, 2015
Dear Mr. Berko: I have two questions. 1) What do you think of a wealth tax, as advocated by economis... Read More
Popular Nonsense Jun. 04, 2014
"Young people are exploited!" "Income mobility is down!" "Poor people are locked into poverty!" Thos... Read More
