I received a year end email from Kickstart.org. I like their work of helping Third World families attain self sufficiency and maximize the rewards from their own labor… I only wish we had programs like theirs to help US families. Things are a bit more complicated here. Here’s the kind of work Kickstart.org does (from the [...]
Mason Gaffney is the author of After the Crash: Designing a Depression-free Economy (Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice). Here he diagnoses the causes of the 2008 Crash and how to avoid such damaging economic problems in the future. Gaffney writes as a Georgist, but admittedly with some enhancements upon George’s basic themes in [...]
Tax favors, IBM, and the murder of Vernon Hunter by David Cay Johnston tells a little known story about some tax favors given to IBM that can be said to have prompted a man to kill an IRS employee by flying his airplane into an IRS building as his last act of defiance. What happened? [...]
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