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  • Kids Ordered to Pay Sales Tax at Children’s Expo Receive a Sad Lesson in Entrepreneurship

    Kids Ordered to Pay Sales Tax at Children’s Expo Receive a Sad Lesson in Entrepreneurship0

    Twelve-year-old Lucie Wise couldn’t wait to open her own business. On three separate occasions, she had accompanied her mother to the Children’s Entrepreneur Market – an expo of child-run businesses hosted annually by the Utah nonprofit Libertas Institute – dreaming of the day she could set up her own booth and sell her wares to curious passersby.

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  • Politics By Infomercial

    Politics By Infomercial0

    If you’re like me, you dread presidential campaigns. With nearly a year and a half to go until the next election, we are already being inundated with banal sloganeering. It’s like being bombarded with advertisements for products you have no use for, have no desire to purchase, and yet are forced to choose which one

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  • Did Slavery Make America Richer?

    Did Slavery Make America Richer?0

    In the past few decades, a new subfield of history has emerged: the history of capitalism. The subfield is widely popular in the media as a result of hugely influential books such as those of Sven Beckert and Edward Baptist. These two particular authors tie the “peculiar institution” of slavery in American history to capitalism.

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  • Advice for Presidential Candidates From Bastiat

    Advice for Presidential Candidates From Bastiat0

    Whether conjured up by something I ate before bedtime, or by the cheesy horror flick I watched a few nights before, or by something else, I just don’t know – but I tossed and turned through one of the most vivid dreams last weekend that I’ve ever experienced. The Dream I was in a classroom

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  • Open Borders? The EU Has Hundreds of Miles of Walls

    Open Borders? The EU Has Hundreds of Miles of Walls0

    If you voted for Donald Trump on the basis of a three-word, three-syllable chant, it was probably “we will win,” “lock her up,” or “build the wall.” Regarding the latter, proponents of less immigration have reason to be frustrated. Prior to the midterm elections, the Republican-held presidency, Senate, and House barely moved an inch on

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  • New Study Defending NYC’s Minimum Wage Law Is Fake News

    New Study Defending NYC’s Minimum Wage Law Is Fake News1

    Last week Business Insider published an article with the eye-opening title “NYC’s $15 minimum wage hasn’t brought the restaurant apocalypse — it’s helped them thrive.” Given the political momentum for the “Fight for 15” movement, culminating in the House voting in favor of a $15 national minimum wage last month, the article made for perfect social

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