Sound Money Is The Sine Qua Non

If You Like The Post Office And The Department Of Motor Vehicles And You Think They're Run Well, Just Wait Till You See Medicare, Medicaid And Health Care Done By The Government.

What I'm Not Saying Is That All Government Spending Is Bad. It's Not - Far, Far From It, But There Is No Free Lunch, As A Former Colleague Of Mine Used To Say. There Is No Public Tooth Fairy. Father Christmas Does Not Work On The Treasury Staff This Year. You Can Never Bail Someone Out Of Trouble Without Putting Someone Else Into Trouble.

With The Shrinking Of The Us Economy, And It's Shrinking Very Rapidly, You Not Only Have More Money, But You Also Have Fewer Goods. That's A Classic Double-whammy On Inflation.

There Are 11 States In The United States That In The Last 50 Years Instituted An Income Tax. So I Looked At Each Of Those 11 States Over The Last 50 Years, And I Took Their Current Economic Metrics And Their Metrics For The Five Years Before They Put In The Progressive Income Tax... Every Single State That Introduced A Progressive Income Tax Has Declined As An Overall Share Of The U.s. Economy.

There Are Several States That Move From Karl Marx-like Policies To Adam Smith-like Policies And Back Again In A Weekend. So For The States With Huge Volatility In Their Income Tax Policies Over Time, The Differences In Growth Rates In Those Periods Are Really Amazingly Consistent With Tax Rates Really Mattering.