GregoryBresiger The Future of Freedom Foundation

A Century of Economic Servitude

April 18, 2013

Americans pay taxes all year round — sales taxes, tolls, investment taxes, user fees, estimated taxes, et cetera. And most of them were paying more on April 15 one way or the other. That’s because at the tax-filing deadline, a ...

Destroying the Young with the Minimum Wage, Part 2

November 1, 2012

Part 1 | Part 2 What is the case for raising the minimum wage? Supporters say it will help the low-paid worker, the teenager or the young person in his 20s, just starting out. They claim that it helps ...

Destroying the Young with the Minimum Wage, Part 1

October 1, 2012

Part 1 | Part 2 The minimum wage, a price control as futile as all other government price controls, continues to damage the U.S. economy and much of the world. But the obscene irony of the minimum-wage law is that ...

A Militarist Foreign Policy Means More Death and Destruction

September 19, 2012

“A feeling has been growing for a long time — even before Viet Nam — that the presidency was somehow out of hand. The White House has been building to some kind of smash.” — George Reedy, former aide ...

The Road to the Permanent Warfare State, Part 13

May 5, 2012

The Road to the Permanent Warfare State, Part 12

April 26, 2012

The Road to the Permanent Warfare State, Part 11

March 10, 2012

The Nonissue That’s Still an Issue

March 7, 2012

Let the voters beware. There are lots of Wimpies and Wilkins Micawbers who propose to expand deficits by spending more of your money now, with the promise that next year or five years from now the nation will ...