Utterly left out of Tax Freedom Day [a holiday marking how many days an average person must work before his or her annual taxes are paid off] is any notion that taxes are what we pay to buy services that we all need and use, and that would be much more expensive or even impossible to purchase privately - fire and police protection, highways, roads, canals, coast guard services, snow removal, water purification, schools, hospitals, libraries, etc. Tax Freedom Day could undoubtably be moved up to early January if we were prepared to walk out of our dwellings that morning onto a dirt path and take our chances on what might befall us.

Private courier companies are fine to handle the lucrative parts of the [postal] business. But they have little interest in servicing remote communities, so th…

Despite loud complaints from members of the financial elite about high tax levels, it's interesting to note that they still manage to live in the finest houses…

The public-choice theorists would have us believe that nobody ever gets involved in governments or the political arena out of a desire to accomplish public goa…

On the level of political principle, the imposition of taxes and the expenditure of tax proceeds are governmental functions. We have established elaborate cons…

Despite loud complaints from members of the financial elite about high tax levels, it's interesting to note that they still manage to live in the finest houses…

In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence a…