1. Facing Fiscal Meltdown, Municipalities Struggle With Pensions
(News/Blog)

... the form of increased and burdensome taxes, and on public-sector employees who face reductions in benefits, and possibly layoffs. New York City is a case in point. There, municipal employees are getting ...

2. The Keystone Kops' Great Beer Bust
(News/Blog)

... owners had bought the beer legally from licensed Pennsylvania distributors and had paid all the necessary taxes, the police claimed that nobody had registered the precise names of the beers with the state ...

3. How to Stop Inflation
(News/Blog)

... "the amount of government debt held by the private sector has gone up by over 30 percent" since 2008. That can only be paid off in two ways — either through increased taxes or, says Minnesota Fed ...

4. Met Life On Inflation, Circa 1959
(News/Blog)

... federal government for help on matters we ourselves should take of as individual citizens or through our local forms of government. Cutting government expenditures is a job for everyone, if taxes and ...

5. The Interpol Blues
(News/Blog)

... taxes, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act. This designation is not intended to abridge in any respect the privileges, exemptions or immunities which such organization may have acquired or ...

6. Facing Financial Apocalypse
(News/Blog)

... Blumer noted, "year-over-year collections of individual income taxes we down by 29%." If these trends continue, deficits will be even larger than expected and the overall debt will grow even more. Unfortunately, ...

7. Facing Our Fears
(Archive/Reviews)

... To keep them driving on the right side of the road – or the left, as the case may be. To keep them paying taxes. And of course, we know that social control is best managed through fear.” Lest anyone dismiss ...

8. Global Warming Skepticism
(Archive/Features)

... contain severe taxes or outright restrictions on carbon emissions that would almost certainly cause economic disruption, at minimum, in important manufacturing industries. Probably, that disruption would ...

9. How A Ruler Ought to Govern His State
(Archive/Opinion)

... those pardoned was fugitive billionaire Marc Rich, who was indicted in 1983 “on more than 50 counts of wire fraud, racketeering, evading more than $48 million in U.S. income taxes and trading with Iran ...

10. Freedom and Prosperity
(Archive/Features)

... and in wealth.” Eventually, of course, England imposed taxes and restrictions on her colonies and these led to the American Revolution. To Americans of the day, those restrictions must have seemed terrifically ...