Democrats face a steep climb in 2018, in both the House and the Senate. It’s easy to over-estimate the Trump Effect on 2018 elections, I…
Almost Classical
Democrats and media pundits are extrapolating a lot from some horrible Republican candidates who managed close (or losing) races in places the GOP should win,…
Americans, especially exurban and rural Americans, distrust the federal government to spend tax revenues wisely. The great divide in the United States is Urban-vs-Rural —…
Though the contemporary Republican Party has never been libertarian enough for me or many others focused on economic issues, we at least imagined the GOP…
The marginal and effective U.S. income tax rates mentioned in my 2011 post The 90 Percent Tax Myth have been supported by research conducted by Thomas Piketty…
Democracy in Chains by Historian Nancy MacLean was worthy of a few online posts earlier this summer, when I first read a loaned copy and was…
Researchers at the University of Washington, asked by Seattle to study the increase in the city’s minimum wage, have some difficult news for the city…
The United States’ federal budget spends a lot of money: between $3.5 and $4.0 trillion annually. How much do citizens of the United States earn…
If socialists and statists wanted to damage limited government and republicanism they could not have chosen better men as Manchurians than Donald Trump and Sam…
Minimum wage debates tend to overstate the estimated and real effects of any changes to the minimum wage in the United States. Most studies show…