An income tax audit is essentially a search. Why, consistent with the Fourth Amendment to the US Constitution, doesn’t it require a search warrant signed by a judge? Since income-tax audits sometimes lead to criminal prosecutions and jail sentences, why is it not a requirement that anyone whom the IRS wishes to audit first be given a Miranda
Listen to the Audio Mises Wire version of this article. The discontent and unrest that followed the 2020 presidential election was, at least in major part, one of the innumerable destructive consequences of an almost 250-year-old error in economic theory made by Adam Smith: namely, the belief that profits are a deduction from wages. (See the
The discontent and unrest that followed the 2020 presidential election was, at least in major part, one of the innumerable destructive consequences of an almost 250-year-old error in economic theory made by Adam Smith: namely, the belief that profits are a deduction from wages. Original Article: “ Class Harmony, Not Class War “ This Audio Mises
My purpose today is to make just two main points: (1) To show why Nazi Germany was a socialist state, not a capitalist one. And (2) to show why socialism, understood as an economic system based on government ownership of the means of production, positively requires a totalitarian dictatorship. The identification of Nazi Germany as a socialist
Una auditoría del impuesto sobre la renta es esencialmente un registro. ¿Por qué, de acuerdo con la Cuarta Enmienda de la Constitución de EEUU, no requiere una orden de registro firmada por un juez? Dado que las auditorías del impuesto sobre la renta a veces conducen a procesos penales y sentencias de cárcel, ¿por qué no es un requisito que
El descontento y el malestar que siguieron a las elecciones presidenciales de 2020 fueron, al menos en gran parte, una de las innumerables consecuencias destructivas de un error de casi 250 años en la teoría económica cometido por Adam Smith: a saber, la creencia de que los beneficios son una deducción de los salarios. (Véanse los ocho primeros
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