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The Myth That America Prospered After WWII Despite Extremely High Taxes on the Rich https://tklist.us/?p=32926
Left-wing politicians who demand higher taxes on the rich argue that the United States has, in the past, prospered when tax rates were very high, proving that high taxes do not harm the economy. And it is true: In the 1950s and early 1960s, the top federal personal income tax rate in the US was...
How a Massachusetts Town Seized a Farmer's $370k Property to Cover a $60k Tax Debt—and Kept the Change https://tklist.us/?p=32887
Alan DiPietro is an alpaca farmer in the town of Bolton, Massachusetts (pop: 5,376). He lives in an RV on the 34-acre property where he keeps his alpacas, and he sells their fleece to make a living. DiPietro wasn’t always a farmer. He previously worked as a chief engineer for iRobot, a company...
Marxism Remains Relevant Only as a Destructive Force https://tklist.us/?p=32850
Though Karl Marx’s theories were never valid, they changed the world by stoking grievance, focusing it on the status quo, demanding that the status quo be burned to the ground, and promising that a never-fully-defined utopia would spontaneously spring from the ashes. His claims included the...
How Libertarians Should View Harvard’s Racial Discrimination in Admissions https://tklist.us/?p=32831
With the Supreme Court’s hearing of the Students for Fair Admission case against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina, racial discrimination is now in the news. Like two contending (intellectual) armies, Liberals and Conservatives have staked out very different positions. In...
What the American Founders Meant by Equality https://tklist.us/?p=32653
The Declaration of Independence famously proclaimed that “all men are created equal.” Thanks in part to that prestigious endorsement, “equality” has become a widely held social ideal. But what most modern-day egalitarians promote is far removed from the kind of equality that the authors of t...
The Biden Administration Just (Quietly) Scaled Back Student Loan ‘Cancellation’ https://tklist.us/?p=32616
In August, the White House announced that most federal student loan borrowers would be eligible for forgiveness. Most borrowers who didn’t receive a Pell Grant would be eligible for up to $10,000 of forgiveness, while borrowers who did receive a Pell Grant—a type of financial aid for low-income....
Andrew Schulz Is Disrupting Comedy Much Like Uber Did the Cab Industry https://tklist.us/?p=32591
If you haven’t heard the name Andrew Schulz yet, you will. He is, in this writer’s very humble opinion, one of the greatest comedians of his generation. Schulz’ comedy is brilliantly irreverent and his unorthodox path to success flies in the face of the established industry–the same industry...
UK Man Arrested For ‘Malicious Communications’ After Posting Meme Mocking the Transgender Flag https://tklist.us/?p=32546
Hardly a day goes by without some viral international incident reminding us why we’re so lucky to have the First Amendment. The latest such lunacy comes courtesy of the United Kingdom, where police just arrested a man for posting an allegedly offensive tweet. Yes, seriously. As shown in a viral...
Why Government Is the Biggest Obstacle to Educational Freedom https://tklist.us/?p=32523
In Massachusetts where I live, average private school tuition hovers around $23,000. For secular private schools, the cost is typically much higher, with Boston-area private school tuition often exceeding $40,000. This price tag is way too high for most families to afford, but emerging...
How Shipping Protectionism Is Undermining US Efforts to Address the Global Food Crisis https://tklist.us/?p=32508
Amidst mounting warnings of a food crisis resulting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. government has announced the provision of an additional $215 million in humanitarian assistance. Undermining its relief efforts, however, is an oft‐overlooked form of shipping protectionism...
MSNBC Claims Homeschooling Is Driven By “Insidious Racism,” But the Facts Show Otherwise https://tklist.us/?p=32496
On Friday, MSNBC shared a tweet claiming that homeschooling is being driven by “the insidious racism of the American religious right.” While Anthea Butler, the opinion columnist who wrote the article referenced by the tweet, never used that specific phrase, her piece implies that homeschooling.....
3 Ways Markets Are Protecting Our Environment https://tklist.us/?p=32489
This Earth Day, pessimism is looming over the conservation community: War in Ukraine seems to have stymied ambitious climate solutions; rising fuel prices have brought into sharp focus our current and future dependence on fossil fuels; and here in the West, we’re preparing for another...
The Results of St. Paul’s Rent Control Experiment Are In—and They’re Disastrous https://tklist.us/?p=32475
In November, FEE Policy Correspondent Brad Polumbo wrote about a new policy in St. Paul, Minnesota which stood to implement the strictest rent control policy in the United States. “The city just approved a rent control measure that will limit landlords’ ability to increase rents on its 65,000+.....
Inflation Is Costing Households $250/Month, Moody’s Analysis Finds https://tklist.us/?p=32464
Inflation is making headlines again this week. The federal government’s latest data show that consumer price rose 7.5 percent from January 2021 to 2022. That’s the highest rate of price inflation we’ve seen in nearly 40 years! What does this mean for everyday American families? A new analysi...
Why America's Founders Didn't Want a Democracy https://tklist.us/?p=32436
When I took history and government in school, many critical issues were misrepresented, given short shrift, or even ignored entirely. And those lacunae undermined my ability to adequately understand many things. Randall Holcombe’s new book, Liberty in Peril: Democracy and Power in American...
There's No Denying the Socialist Roots of Fascism https://tklist.us/?p=32398
In the past few decades, there has been a deep discussion about the ideological roots of fascism, and above all, a great misunderstanding about the collectivist principles that this authoritarian movement promulgated. To understand this ideology better, it is necessary to know in depth the life...
The Anti-Capitalism of the 20th Century Is Back. Will the Story End the Same? https://tklist.us/?p=32387
The 20th century was a period of startling technological advancement. Compared to the lifestyle of average people in 1925, most of human history before that time amounted to what we’d now call “camping.” Just 30 years earlier, most people traveled on foot or by animal power, except when taking...
How Minimum Wage and Rent Control Laws Fail the ‘Bronowski Test’ https://tklist.us/?p=32382
In The Common Sense of Science, the Polish-British mathematician Jacob Bronowski wrote that, “at the basis of human thought lies the judgment of what is like and what is unlike.” Unfortunately, public policies often mistakenly treat people that are unlike in crucial ways as if they are alike, or...
San Francisco Mayor Was Just Exposed For Breaking Her Own Mask Mandate—And She’s Not Sorry https://tklist.us/?p=32307
San Francisco Mayor London Breed reinstated a mask mandate for her city on August 2 amid the rise of the COVID Delta variant. However, the mayor was just exposed for violating her own order—and she’s completely unapologetic about it. The order requires masks to be worn during indoor events.....
Our Planet Is Drowning in Plastic Pollution, But Several Solutions Are Already Here—Thanks to Human Ingenuity https://tklist.us/?p=32304
Fionn Fereira grew up on the majestic southern coast of Ireland, but by the time he was twelve, he was noticing a strange sheen in the water. It was caused by microplastics, tiny plastic particles no more than 5mm long, which no one knew how to get rid of. These microplastics are the end of the...
Wall Street Journal: Even Confiscating Entire Wealth of All US Billionaires Couldn’t Pay for Democratic Spending Plans https://tklist.us/?p=32290
From Iowa to Indiana, Senator Bernie Sanders is hitting the road. The Vermont socialist has a simple mission: reach out to rural America and make the case for the $4.5+ trillion government spending plans his allies are trying to push through Congress. The massive spending proposals include...
Why Many in Sweden Have to Wait a Decade (or Longer) to Land an Apartment https://tklist.us/?p=32293
Oscar Stark recently was warming up leftover vegetarian pasta in his flat, a red-brick 1960s tower outside Stockholm. Reheated veggie pasta isn’t exactly a gourmet meal, but it’s all the 20-year-old Swede said he can afford, because the majority of his income is spent subletting the place—even...
CDC: Schools With Mask Mandates Didn’t See Statistically Significant Different Rates of COVID Transmission From Schools With Optional Policies https://tklist.us/?p=32284
The ACLU on Tuesday announced it is bringing a lawsuit against South Carolina over its mask policy. The Palmetto State is one of seven states—along with Texas, Iowa, Oklahoma, Arizona, Utah, and Florida— that have policies in place banning schools from having mask policies. Thirteen states...
Why Are Millionaires Able to Receive Food Stamps? https://tklist.us/?p=28784
Rob Undersander, a retired engineer in Waite Park, Minnesota, wasn’t eager to go public about being a millionaire, but he wanted to expose a loophole that would allow wealthy—or at least those not needy—to qualify for food stamps. Broad Food Stamp Eligibility So, in June 2016, he filled out ...
Disabled Mother Wins Legal Fight to Keep Family Home From Property Tax Collectors https://tklist.us/?p=32247
After Mary Ann Dupere had a stroke in 2010, her daughter, Tina, became her caretaker in the family’s Dartmouth, Massachusetts home of 42 years. But, because of an outstanding property tax debt of only 0.7% of the home’s total worth, they faced eviction. The house was originally purchased in 1979...
How Amazon's $10 Billion Contract Squabble with the Pentagon Reveals the Shady Nature of Military Contracts https://tklist.us/?p=32235
Earlier this month the US Department of Defense (DOD) canceled a $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract awarded to Microsoft in 2019. The goal of the contract was to modernize the Department’s IT operations using cloud computing. The JEDI cancellation occurred...
How Profits Created the Prosperity We Enjoy Today https://tklist.us/?p=32220
Practically every item we engage with daily (our car, cell phone, food, clothes, tooth brush, etc.) was produced by people seeking profit. Our jobs and paychecks are also based on the profit motive. Even government and non-profit organizations are made possible by the profit from private...
Target and Walgreens Are Making Drastic Changes Amid Skyrocketing Shoplifting in San Francisco https://tklist.us/?p=32126
San Francisco ranks as the fifth-worst city in the US when it comes to retail theft. Now, the problem is getting so bad that businesses like Target and Walgreens are being forced to make drastic changes in response. “For more than a month, we’ve been experiencing a significant and alarming rise....
You Don’t Have to Send Your Kid Back to Public School This Fall—Here Are Your Options https://tklist.us/?p=32123
This year’s back-to-school season is as uncertain and unsettling as the last. With schools in some parts of the country set to open early next month, the CDC just announced its virus control recommendations which include required masking for unvaccinated students and staff, continued social...
Households Face Up to $14,000 in ‘Hidden' Federal Taxes Every Year, New Report Reveals https://tklist.us/?p=32102
Most Americans pay close attention to how much of their money is taken in taxes each year. But there’s another, less obvious way the federal government imposes financial costs on citizens—and according to a new report, it amounts to trillions annually. The fiscally-conservative Competitive...
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