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US Has the Most Progressive Tax System in the Developed World
Treasury Should Tread Lightly When Regulating New Federal Tax Credit Scholarship Program
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Mayor Mamdani’s “Collectivism” Is No Slip of the Tongue—It’s About Force, Coercion
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Sensing the dangers of tyranny by the majority, John C. Calhoun developed the doctrine of the concurrent majority which served to limit the powers...
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Adam N. Michel The United States places an unusually heavy share of the tax burden on higher earners. You wouldn’t know this from hearing...
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Dr. Peter Klein explains why truly “liberating the American university” means cutting all state ownership, funding, and regulation—not just tweaking DEI programs or research...
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Colleen Hroncich Last year, Congress created a federal tax credit for donations to scholarship-granting organizations (SGOs) that help families choose the best educational options...
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Matthew Cavedon My Cato colleague Dr. Jeffrey Singer recently endorsed New York’s pending legalization of Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD). While his perspective reflects...
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The Ken Burns theme that the creation of the U.S. Constitution saved this country from “chaos” exaggerates the difficulties the new nation faced under...
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The US’s bombing of Caracas reiterates three key foundations of American foreign policy: the Constitution is dead, democracy is irrelevant, and the “rule of...
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The US’s bombing of Caracas reiterates three key foundations of American foreign policy: the Constitution is dead, democracy is irrelevant, and the “rule of...
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Ryan Bourne Newly inaugurated Mayor Zohran Mamdani last week promised New Yorkers that he would “replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth...
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Long before Soviet propaganda cynically rebranded the Nazis as “bourgeois,” and long before modern academics lazily stamped them “far-right,” Mises dismantled National Socialism with...
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Stephen Richer The United States Post Office recently updated the Domestic Mail Manual in a way that will affect “Postmarks and Postal Possession.” The USPS’s explainer states:...
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Jim Beam has been making whiskey for a long time, through thick and thin. But the Trump tariffs have shut down the venerable distillery.
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Most academic historians claim that big businesses in the US were economy-choking monopolies at the end of the 19th century, and that government was...
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Great Britain’s Labour government continues to pursue the ruinous policies of inflation and out-of-control spending, all in the name of promoting economic growth. They...
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Mike Fox We’ve all been there. You get the notification: “Package Delivered.” You head to the door, heart full of anticipation, only to find...