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Tag: taxes

A Property Tax Freeze

December 13, 2023 Brian Phillips Housing, Taxes

The City Council of Knoxville, Tennessee is considering a property tax freeze for some apartment owners. Property owners who choose

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Eating the Seed Corn

December 1, 2023 Brian Phillips Taxes

A growing movement is underway to impose a global minimum tax of 2 percent on the world’s 2,700 billionaires. This

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We Must Check Our Premises

November 24, 2023 Brian Phillips General

A growing number of public officials are sounding the alarm that a decreasing birth rate in the United States could

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Parents are Taxpayers Too

October 30, 2023 Brian Phillips Education

Critics of school choice programs often argue that taxpayer money shouldn’t be used for private schooling. Such arguments evade the

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Individual Rights and Government Wrongs

July 28, 2023 Brian Phillips Property

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

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When Capitalists and Socialists Seem to Agree

December 15, 2021 Brian Phillips General

It is extremely rare for socialists and capitalists to agree on an issue. After all, socialists believe that the state

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Coming Soon to a Vacant House Near You

July 14, 2021 Brian Phillips Housing, Taxes

Politicians can sometimes be rather creative in finding new ways to coerce individuals to act as the politicians’ desire. And

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The Wrong Incentive

June 17, 2021 Brian Phillips Housing, Taxes, Zoning and Land Use

Legislators across the country are scrambling to develop policies that will lead to more affordable housing. (Affordable housing means that

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