VIDEO: How Import Tariffs Make Everyone Poorer

Jonah Goldberg: The Terminology Of Taxation

Words mean things. Every political movement has its rhetorical strengths and weaknesses. The Right can wax poetic about liberty and freedom, the Left about the nobility of the poor and downtrodden. Nowhere do these differences come across more starkly than on the subject of taxation. Ask almost any Republican politician, from lobster-roll-eating northeastern “RINOs”  ... MORE

Ron Ross: Fatal Flaws Of Keynesian Economics

The failed economics behind the stimulus. It's now clear that the federal government's massive stimulus spending has not achieved its objectives. Why hasn't it? It's important that we have answers to that question. The stimulus was premised on the economic model known as Keynesianism: the intellectual legacy of the late English economist John Maynard Keynes. Keynesianism... MORE

John Stossel: A Businessman For President?

Herman Cain aims for the White House. Herman Cain has an impressive record in the business world. He was a successful vice president at Pillsbury and Burger King, then he turned around the failing Godfather's Pizza. Is that the kind of person the country needs as president? Cain thinks so. I spoke with Cain last week. As a businessman, Cain saw firsthand the harm that government ... MORE

VIDEO: Milton Friedman - Middle Class Welfare

Mona Charen: It Should All Be Free

The high cost of turning wishes into rights. Free medicine! That's what Obamacare has brought you — or should bring you, at least according to CNN. The story's opening sentence set the tone: "Contraceptives, sterilization and reproductive education should be covered by health insurance plans with no cost to patients under the health reform law, a new report ... MORE