When governments subsidize low productivity and penalize high productivity with enormous taxes, the economy suffers. This is why Europe is stagnating. People typically believe that a true free market economy would turn our society into a huge dystopia, but none of the critics can explain why they hold to such beliefs.
If President Trump is looking for a federal agency to abolish, he needs to look no further than the misnamed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This agency both defies the US Constitution and the laws of economics. While Dr. Opinion polls and the latest electoral results are at odds with the facts as presented by mainstream media and government statistical offices. What is going on? Ryan McMaken and Heather Carson discuss how homeschooling is a way to resist and sabotage the many ways the state centralizes power and destroys private institutions.
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