Free Enterprise Alliance

Experiences in market-driven health care reform show that it is the most successful way to reduce costs and maintain patient satisfaction.

A collection of essays by great advocates of the free market, including F.A. Hayek, Murray Rothbard.

Veronique de Rugy breaks down some of the myths surrounding taxes and redistribution of wealth. Read her entire article here.

Arthur C. Brooks argues that free enterprise is at the heart of America’s culture wars.

There is a major cultural schism developing in America. But it’s not over abortion, same-sex marriage or home schooling, as important as these issues are. The new divide centers on free enterprise — the principle at the core of American culture.

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Jim Powell of the Cato Institute explains how the massive increase in taxes used to fund FDR’s New Deal policies disproportionately affected poor people.

Until 1937, New Deal revenue from excise taxes exceeded the combined revenue from both personal income taxes and corporate income taxes. It wasn’t until 1942, in the midst of World War II, that income taxes exceeded excise taxes for the first time under FDR. Consumers had less money to spend, and employers had less money for growth and jobs.

New Deal taxes were major job destroyers during the 1930s, prolonging unemployment that averaged 17%. Higher business taxes meant that employers had less money for growth and jobs. Social Security excise taxes on payrolls made it more expensive for employers to hire people, which discouraged hiring.

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In this silly “rap battle” between two heavyweights of 20th century economic thought, John Maynard Keynes and F.A. Hayek lay down their opposing theories on the boom/bust cycle.

A short economic history of Sweden, which was one of the richest countries in the world until it stagnated as a European-style welfare state. A resurgence in free market policies have turned things around again for Sweden.

Milton Friedman argues that it’s impossible for the government to provide goods and services at no one’s expense.

Milton and Rose Friedman’s 10-part PBS special on free market capitalism.

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