


Is Trump Really Cutting the Size of Government?
The Trump administration has fired about 25,000 federal workers to date. Media and politicians are telling the American people that this is a massive “slash and burn” cut to the federal government. The truth is quite different. The number 25,000 represents only a tiny...
How the New York Bill of Rights Helped Lead to the U.S. Bill of Rights
When Congressman James Madison drafted a proposed bill of rights in the First Federal Congress of 1789, he did not write on a blank slate. He took into account historic Anglo-American constitutional documents, such as Magna Carta (1215) and the English Bill of Rights...
Wealth Taxes and the Direct-Indirect Tax Controversy
The challenge over realized but undistributed corporate income in the Supreme Court case of Moore v. United States is said to be an opening skirmish on the constitutionality of a potential federal wealth tax. Proponents claim a wealth levy is within the constitutional...