This Saturday, April 16, Equal Is Unfair co-author Don Watkins will guest host The Yaron Brook Show. Do the rich pay their “fair share” of taxes? What lessons can we draw from the Panama Papers controversy? What should we make of the “taxation is theft” meme? These are only some of the questions that Don will tackle.
On April 5, the Lewis & Clark Federalist Society hosted a public debate between Yaron Brook and Milo Petranovich on income inequality at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon.
In this discussion with economics and law professor Alan Auerbach, ARI’s executive director Yaron Brook argues that the hardship facing some Americans has nothing to do with economic inequality, and that the government’s misguided fight against income inequality only destroys opportunity and upward mobility.
On April 8, The Daily Wire published an exclusive interview with ARI fellow Don Watkins on the newly released Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality.
On April 6, The Blaze published an all-new op-ed by Don Watkins, in which he argues that the ideal of “equality of opportunity” is undesirable, as it would, among other things, mean: “[A]n unprecedented program of wealth redistribution, sapping affluent parents of every honestly earned dollar they’ve made so long as it could be used to give their child a “head start” in life.”
On March 2, 2016 the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case challenging a Texas law regulating access to abortion. Unlike the kind of abortion laws that were struck down in Roe v. Wade, which outlawed abortion directly, this case challenges a law that indirectly restricts access to abortions by going after doctors and clinics.
In this talk, Ryan Krause, assistant professor of Strategy at the Neeley School of Business, Texas Christian University, explains that non-coercive monopolies can and do exist on a free market, why non-coercive monopolies are benevolent, how business strategy is essentially a plan for achieving a monopoly and how antitrust law criminalizes the essence of business strategy.
Yesterday, Investor’s Business Daily published a new op-ed by Don Watkins and Yaron Brook, in which they argue, contra Thomas Piketty et al., that there’s nothing even remotely unfair with the wealth gap due to inheritances.
On April 4, 2016, Yaron Brook joined PBS’s Chicago Tonight to discuss Don and Yaron’s newly released book, Equal Is Unfair: America’s Misguided Fight Against Income Inequality.
