295 Articles tagged with: Regulation and Taxation

• Video to Rectify Minimal Understanding of Minimum Wage

  Quick quiz: If you jack up the price of something, do you think people will buy more or less of it? Apparently, the obvious answer “Less!” eludes the folks who argue that if the government forces employers to pay all workers a $15 minimum wage… Read Article

• Five Ayn Rand Questions for Grover Norquist

  1)  Tell us who you are? What’s the couple of sentence summary of what you do and what you’ve done?

  I run American for Tax Reform, the group that shares the Taxpayer Protection Pledge with all candidates. We ask them to commit in writing th… Read Article

• Two Proposals to Stop the Government Looting

  Denouncing the government for taxing us into servitude is necessary and right, but it doesn’t actually stop government looting. So how do we rouse a complacent public to rise up and stop the despoilers?

  1: Make Election Season Tax Season <… Read Article

• On Tax Day, What if Atlas Shrugged?

  On Tax Day in the United States, productive individuals are punished for being productive, even as their tormentors demand that they produce even more for those tormentors to take.

  And during this election year, Democrat candidates especia… Read Article

• Regulators Drive Away Hyperloop Transport at Hyperspeed

  In 2013, uber-entrepreneur Elon Musk open sourced his idea for a Hyperloop transportation system that could cut a six hour car or train trip between cities down to 30 minutes, faster than even most airline flights. But Knut Sauer, an executive for… Read Article

• Galt's Gulch Zoning Ordinance

  Atlas Summit 2013 -- As a society becomes urban, the proactive protection of private property rights is an important function of a proper government. Initially implemented to protect these rights, land use regulation today permeates our daily li… Read Article

• Star Banker Denounces Accounting Principles

  Last year, John Allison became the new president and CEO of the Cato Institute, succeeding the legendary Ed Crane. I therefore picked up his book— The Financial Crisis and the Free-Market Cure (McGraw-Hill, 2013)—as an interested citizen who shar… Read Article

• The Law and Morality of Insider Trading

  Atlas Summit 2012 - The federal government has been pursuing insider trading aggressively as a form of “securities fraud,” but is there really any justification for condemning—legally or morally—the practice of trading on the best informatio… Read Article

• The FTC: A Fount of Uncertainty

  The signals from the anonymous sources have changed. Until recently, the predictions were that the Federal Trade Commission would settle its case against Google this month with only relatively mild restrictions on Google’s ability to rain… Read Article

• Just Another Successful Businessman Destroyed - The Ordeal of Greg Reyes

   August 20, 2012 -- Quite long ago, Whittaker Chambers said: “The great failing of American conservatives is they don’t retrieve their wounded.”  That bitter reflection, but as applied to American businessmen, came to mind when I finishe… Read Article

• Stossel on Regime Uncertainty

  The burden of unjustified laws and regulations would be hard enough for businesses to bear if they were stable, but uncertainty makes it even harder. As John Stossel argues:

  The number of on-the-fly programs in recent years (from attac… Read Article

• California's Choices: Austerity, Expropriation, or Liberty

  California Gov. Jerry Brown announced that his state’s budget deficit will be $16 billion, up from earlier estimates of $9.2 billion, on a budget of $92.6 billion. So what to do?

  … Read Article

• An Economic Defense of Insider Trading

  One side effect of the 2008 financial crisis has been renewed attention to the ban on insider trading. This ban dates to 1934, when it was adopted in response to the Great Depression and the stock market crash of 1929; Congress and various Supr… Read Article

• An Analysis of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara

  On May 11, after the trial of Galleon hedge-fund founder Raj Rajaratnam (pictured below) had ended in a conviction on all counts, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Preet Bharara, came forth to give his understanding of it… Read Article

• The Epistemology of Insider Trading

  The “Law Blog” column of the Wall Street Journal had a troubling article last week. Its headline said: “What, Precisely, is Inside Info? Legal Issue Arises in Raj Trial.” This refers, of course, to the current trial of Raj Rajaratnam, th… Read Article

• Choose or Lose: How Regulation Destroys Value

  When economic crises hit, politicians of both parties are demanding more regulation of the economy. Failures in banking and finance, unsound investments, Ponzi schemes—they are all put down to lax regulation. If only the wise hand of governmen… Read Article

• Aviation Insecurity

  TNI Spring 2010 --  Editor’s Note: Aviation security was in the headlines again last Christmas, with the attempted bombing of Northwest Flight 253 by the so-called "Underwear Bomber." In reaction to the incident, the Transportation Security… Read Article

• Sidebar: "An act of political deception."

  Were there compelling factors—other than improving aviation security—at work in the passing of the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (ATSA) of 2001? Yes, says attorney James Slepian, who as a law student in 2003 penned the first legal… Read Article

• National Sales Tax

    Question:  What is the Objective position on www.fairtax.org?

  Answer:  The Atlas Society does not focus primarily on political policy, and we do not have any position on the organization you mention.

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• Enron: It's OUR Problem

  February 27, 2002 -- The enemies of capitalism are using Enron Corporation’s sudden bankruptcy to launch a new wave of attacks on the free market. Enron confirms the Left’s view that business is a dog-eat-dog arena of swindlers and exploiter… Read Article