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Start Your Own Tax Revolt — Without Getting In Trouble

April 15, 2009

From Human Events
“A virtuous and industrious people may be cheaply governed.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
“Little else is required to carry a state to the highest level of opulence but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice.” ~ Adam Smith
Today, on April 15 Tax Day, hundreds of thousands of citizens are protesting out of control [...]

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Here’s a Tax-Deductible Way to Honor an American Hero

December 1, 2001

December 2001
PERSONAL SNAPSHOTS
Forecasts & Strategies
by Mark Skousen
“A noble man cannot be lost in a crowd.” — Maori Saying
I just returned from my 25th appearance at the New Orleans Investment Conference. I know hundreds of you have been to this classic “granddaddy “of seminars. There’s a reason why this investment conference has lasted so long. Jim [...]

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If You Build It – Privately – They Will Come

August 26, 2000

Ideas on Liberty
Economics on Trial
August 2000
by Mark Skousen
“Government provides certain indispensable public services without which community life would be unthinkable and which by their nature cannot appropriately be left to private enterprise.” – PAUL A. SAMUELSON
If you take a course in public finance, you will invariably encounter the “public goods” argument for government: Some services [...]

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Easy Living: My Two Years in the Bahamas

December 23, 1987

Memoir — LIBERTY
By Mark Skousen

The Island of June
If you’re feeling the need of real relaxation,
In a climate that’s lazy, a perfect vacation,
Away from the snow and the slush that annoys you,
Away from the worries [...]

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