Assorted content for your weekend reading.
- Andrew Jackson rightly questions Greg Mankiw’s faith-based assertion that increasing wealth accumulation is based solely on merit and contribution to society rather than hoarding and rent-seeking. And Martin Lobel highlights a few of the distortionary policies that have served to exacerbate inequality in the U.S.: Everyone admits that our current tax system is broken and many “reform” proposals are being considered. But, our current tax code is too fragile to support most of the current “reform” proposals that powerful interests want to layer on it. Instead, we need to strengthen and (Read more…)
