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Proposed Federal Vaping Ban Is Bigger Than Vaping

October 18, 2019 by Counter Markets

By John Michaels The Trump administration is aggressively pushing an unconstitutional ban on all flavored vape products after reports that over 1,000 people have become ill and roughly two-dozen people have died, supposedly from “vaping.” Vaping has been called an “epidemic” even though vaping has been around for over 10 years with no prior reports of anything like this … [Read more...] about Proposed Federal Vaping Ban Is Bigger Than Vaping

With Gun Ban, Pittsburgh Lawmakers Virtue Signal on Taxpayers’ Dime

April 27, 2019 by Counter Markets

By Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan Most people know that politicians of all stripes are rarely sincere. Case in point: the Pittsburgh City Council’s recent industrial-strength gun-control nonsense. This law was so tempting to those who posture for a living that even Mayor Bill Peduto and Gov. Tom Wolf had to get in on the act. In the wake of the Tree of Life shooting, … [Read more...] about With Gun Ban, Pittsburgh Lawmakers Virtue Signal on Taxpayers’ Dime

The Income Tax: Lessons from the Sixteenth Amendment

April 15, 2019 by Counter Markets

By Mark Brandly "The income tax is “undoubtedly the most totalitarian of all taxes."1 ~Murray Rothbard At the founding of our country, the framers of our Constitution wisely withheld the right to tax incomes from the federal government. With the recent Revolutionary War in mind, the States were reluctant to cede strong taxing powers to a central state. Given the enormous … [Read more...] about The Income Tax: Lessons from the Sixteenth Amendment

The Reasons Behind The Relentless Ideological Onslaught Against Free Markets

April 5, 2019 by Counter Markets

By Brandon Smith I sometimes think that the free market concept is treated like The Hunchback of Notre-Dame’s Quasimodo in the long novel of global economic history. It is considered ugly and undesirable by most people who judge it at a mere glance without bothering to understand it. It is a bogeyman; a scapegoat for numerous societal problems that it has nothing to do with. … [Read more...] about The Reasons Behind The Relentless Ideological Onslaught Against Free Markets

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