mises.org: A Taxing Cut for IRS: Free Tax Filing Option to be Ended -- -- The Trump administration announced that the IRS will end its free Direct File (DF) program that taxpayers have used on the IRS website to file their own tax returns. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Spanish Blackout Shows Why the Green Dream Is Unsustainable -- -- Although government officials and true believers in β€œgreen energy” are denying it, the collapse of the electric grid in Spain and Portugal proves that reliance on renewables for electric production is doomed to failure. Whether people listen is another story. #liberty #news
reason.com: Reopening Alcatraz Is an Expensive, Unnecessary Pipe Dream -- -- The Bureau of Prisons is struggling to staff the prisons it currently operates. Reopening Alcatraz would be unrealistic and redundant. #liberty #news
mises.org: US Trade Account Balance and the Imposition of Tariffs -- -- Although politicians, pundits, and the media claim that a trade deficit is harmful to a country, the reality is much different. In a free economy, individuals interact with each other in mutually-beneficial exchanges. As Murray Rothbard noted, free exchanges do not produce winners and losers. #liberty #news
mises.org: The Method Behind Real Economic Thinking -- -- Jonathan Newman joins Bob Murphy to explore what economics really is, why it matters, and how the revamped Mises Academy is helping teach it the right way. #liberty #news
reason.com: FBI Warns of Swatting Amidst a Wave of Politically Motivated Attacks -- -- As partisan violence rises, emergency services are weaponized against mostly conservative targets. #liberty #news
reason.com: Should Sharing Information About Israeli Businesses Get You 20 Years in Prison? -- -- The IGO Anti-Boycott Act would dramatically expand U.S. anti-boycott laws. The House quietly postponed a vote after running into unexpected Republican opposition. #liberty #news
mises.org: Reclaiming Our Sovereignty from State Power -- -- Have Americans forgotten how to be free? When warfare erupted between American colonists and the British government, the colonists believed that they had God-given rights that protected them against state power. Would that Americans today believed the same thing. #liberty #news
reason.com: America First Legal Foundation v. Chief Justice John Roberts -- -- A FOIA lawsuit that seeks executive branch control over the Judicial Conference of the United States and Administrative Office of the United States. #liberty #news
reason.com: New Article: Forcibly Sweeping Section 3 Up To The Supreme Court -- -- My personal account of the Section 3 litigation. #liberty #news