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The Problem With: Property Taxes Do you actually own your home? Even after you spend thirty years paying off your mortgage and hold the deed in your hands, stop paying your annual property taxes, and a county sheriff will eventually…
Let’s try the 3 C’s. It is easy to point out how broken healthcare is in America, but complaining about the status quo without offering a coherent alternative leaves people feeling trapped between bureaucratic neglect and government takeover. A Christian…
What if choices matter? For decades, policy experts have debated why intergenerational poverty persists in the richest nation on earth. Billions of dollars in government interventions are poured into antipoverty initiatives each year, yet generational poverty remains remarkably entrenched in…
Why is the taxpayer funding this? For decades, Americans have been told that a four-year college degree is the indispensable ticket to the middle class. Federal and state governments promised that by flooding universities with subsidized student loans, direct institutional…
What if there isn’t actually a gap? Few economic charts circulate with more indignation than the famous “wedge” graph: the line showing worker productivity climbing steadily upward since the early 1970s while average wages appear to flatline. For millions of…
If we change the unit of measure… If you walk through a grocery store or look at current mortgage rates and feel like Washington’s official inflation numbers bear zero resemblance to your monthly bank statement, you are not losing your…
Draining the value of dollars. Every time politicians and commentators discuss inflation, they speak as if it were a natural disaster—an unpredictable storm that somehow swept across the grocery aisles and housing markets. They blame supply chains, foreign wars, or…
Interest paying are a massive tax drain. There is a point where financial mismanagement stops being an accounting failure and becomes an urgent moral crisis. In Washington, the national debt is routinely discussed with eyes glazed over, dismissed as an…
The Cost of Regulation We often treat terms like “regulatory drag” as bloodless economic abstractions—debates over Federal Register page counts, administrative compliance costs, or fractional GDP slowdowns. But stripped of bureaucratic jargon, over-regulation is fundamentally a moral question about justice,…
