Brian Phillips, Author at Texas Institute for Property Rights

No Such Thing as “Public Money”

Defenders of government schools like to claim that vouchers, educational savings plans, and similar programs give “public money” to parents

I began this series by referring to Ayn Rand’s claim that without property rights, no other rights are possible. I

This post is the seventh in a series. While I have long understood the importance of property rights, my understanding

This post is the sixth in a series. In the early 1990s, I wrote a paper titled “Government Without Taxation.”

This post is the fifth in a series. In the past two posts, I have summarized my experiences while fighting

This post is the fourth in a series. About twelve years after zoning was defeated in Houston, I was contacted

This post is the third in a series. In early January 1990 (I think it was January 1) the local

This post is the second in a series. Before I could determine if Ayn Rand was correct in claiming that