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The tax boon that is growth

A national economist clearly shows how growth pays for itself and so much more.

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  • July 2, 2009
Review & Comment

Two epochs defined our 'Spirit of America'

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S.B. 360 snips only the tip of the growth tumor

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  • May 8, 2009
Review & Comment

Kudos to a do-nothing Legislature

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  • April 23, 2009
The price for equality: You lose freedom

It's happening before your eyes every day, more than it has since the dark days of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: The takeover of your life by the Next New Deal.

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  • April 17, 2009
Crist's insurance follies ruinous

Gov. Charlie Crist's policies are wrecking the insurance market and imperiling Florida taxpayers.

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  • April 10, 2009
More burdens on Florida taxpayers?

Protecting the costliest homes in the riskiest parts of Florida helps protect all the taxpayers of Florida

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  • April 2, 2009
Less Action

Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker dishes out an antidote to federal activism through the Mont Pelerin Society.

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  • April 2, 2009
Needed: Economic Freedom

The G-20 Summit should be a time to renew the commitment to economic freedom, which leads to prosperity.

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  • April 2, 2009
How Miami has lessons for the GM Rescue

Here in Florida it's difficult to feel the emotions, fears and depth of the implosion of General Motors and Chrysler and the firing of General Motors' Rick Wagoner.

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  • March 27, 2009
The Goal Is Freedom: Crisis and Opportunity

Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel are using the nation's economic disarray as their cover for expanding government control and further limiting freedom.

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  • March 13, 2009
Let's not give judges more power; kill HB 1121

In whom would you trust the handling of money more — the state judiciary or county clerks (who also serve as county comptrollers and county auditors)?

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  • February 27, 2009
Minimum wage, discrimination and inequality

Minimum wages laws perversely affect the people they are trying to help by destroying opportunities to learn in the marketplace.

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  • February 27, 2009
The Great Society: A Libertarian Critique

The Great Society was spawned 40 years ago to eradicate poverty, but ended up cementing the poor in place. It is making a comeback. Rothbard analyzed the results at the time. It's a good lesson.

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  • February 27, 2009
The 1930s economic myth

Cheering for Obama stimulus buys into 1930s myth that FDR's spending and experimentation ended the Great Depression.

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