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  • Five Facts About Tax Day and Income Taxes

    Five Facts About Tax Day and Income Taxes0

    Today is Tax Day, the day when individual income tax returns are due to the federal government. Here are five facts you should know about income taxes and Tax Day: 1. The first national income tax in the United States was in 1861 soon after the outbreak of the Civil War. Congress approved a national income tax,

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  • How the Minimum Wage Affected Workers During (and After) the Great Recession

    How the Minimum Wage Affected Workers During (and After) the Great Recession0

    The law of demand is one of the most fundamental concepts of economics. This law states that, if all other factors remain equal, the higher the price of a good, the less people will demand that good. Most of the time this is too obvious to mention. Yet people seem to think we can suspend

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  • Five Facts About Fascism

    Five Facts About Fascism0

    This past Saturday was the 100th anniversary of the forming of the  Fascist movement in Milan, Italy in 1919. Here are five facts you should know about fascism: 1. Benito Mussolini coined the term “fascism” in 1919 to describe his political movement, the black-shirted members the Fasci di combattimento (“combat groups”), who seized power in

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  • How to Make America Smart Again

    How to Make America Smart Again0

    • March 15, 2019

    Over the past week America has been fascinated and appalled by the latest college admissions cheating scandal. Much of the attention has been focused on the bribing of coaches to get kids into school with fake athletic credentials. But the even more absurd part of the scandal is that parents were paying between $15,000 and $75,000

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