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NEW! Flat Tax Revolution: Using a Postcard to Abolish the IRS
by Steve Forbes, with a forward by Newt Gingrich
File your taxes on a postcard? Absolutely!, says Steve Forbes, in his important new book Flat Tax Revolution. In fact, countries around the world have already freed their taxpayers to do just that—and we can too with a simple flat tax that will slash tax rates, spur economic growth, and put the IRS out of business.
In Flat Tax Revolution you’ll learn:
- How a simple 17 percent flat tax will save you time, money, and worry
- Why the Flat Tax will eliminate the IRS, its bureaucrats, its paperwork, its nightmares, and its hassles
- Why the Flat Tax will create jobs, and bring back ones we’ve lost overseas
- How other countries -- even Russia! -- are already reaping the benefits of a flat tax system
- How the Flat Tax will stop special interests getting tax breaks at your expense
- How the Flat Tax will eliminate shady accounting in business (something our current tax system encourages)
- Why the Flat Tax is also a tax cut
- What you can do to make the Flat Tax a reality
As Steve Forbes shows, the Flat Tax shouldn’t be a partisan issue—it should be a taxpayer issue. And you can make it happen.
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The Law
by Frederic Bastiat
The Law is Bastiat's most famous and enduring work. Few if any books, before or since, have made such a compelling case for freedom. Bastiat's arguments against socialism are as solid today as when first published in 1850.
A Morton Blackwell "Read to Lead" Selection.
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Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches
by Edmund Burke; Dr. Peter Stanlis, ed.
Edmund Burke (1729-1777) was a British statesman, orator, and political writer. His contribution to the cause of liberty is almost inestimable, most notably in his principled opposition to the French Revolution (and, interestingly, his support of the American Revolution). This comprehensive anthology provides authoritative insight into Burke's political life and philosophy. Editor Peter Stanlis incorporates all of Burke's essential writings and speeches from the decade before he entered politics until just before his death.
A Morton Blackwell "Read to Lead" Selection.
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Productive Christians in an Age of Guilt Manipulators
by David Chilton
Subtitled "A Biblical Response to Ronald J. Sider" (of Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger fame), Productive Christians is the definitive response to so-called "Christian socialism", and a powerful case for the free market nature of the Bible. A powerful introduction to Biblical economic thought, hilariously funny, vigorous writing, and utterly devastating to its opponents (the chief of whom, Sider, never responded to it in print, despite releasing four updates of Rich Christians through the years). A must-read. |
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The Anti-Chomsky Reader
edited by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
In The Anti-Chomsky Reader, editors Peter Collier and David Horowitz have assembled a set of essays that analyze Noam Chomsky's intellectual career and the evolution of his anti-Americanism. The essays in this provocative book focus on subjects such as Chomsky's bizarre involvement with Holocaust revisionism, his apologies for Khmer Rouge tyrant Pol Pot, and his claim that America's policies in Latin America in the 1980s were comparable to Nazism. |
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The Theme is Freedom
by M. Stanton Evans
In recent years, American politics has been increasingly marked by debate over the role of religion in public life and the alleged tension between Western faith and our free institutions. Evans contends that this is based on a mistaken reading of the historical record of the nature of the American system, and that freedom is impossible apart from Christianity. A full-frontal assault on Marxian economic determinism, and a truly ground-breaking work.
A Morton Blackwell "Read to Lead" Selection.
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Capitalism and Freedom
by Milton Friedman
In this classic bestseller, Capitalism and Freedom, Milton Friedman presents his view of the proper role of competitive capitalism--the organization of economic activity through private enterprise operating in a free market--as both a device for achieving economic freedom and a necessary condition for political freedom. Beginning with a discussion of principles of a liberal society, Friedman applies them to such constantly pressing problems as monetary policy, discrimination, education, income distribution, welfare, and poverty.
A Morton Blackwell "Read to Lead" Selection.
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Wealth and Poverty
by George Gilder
In this acclaimed work, Gilder offers an illuminating discussion of how to increase wealth and curtail poverty, arguing that most welfare programs only serve to keep the poor in poverty as victims of welfare dependency. Was widely considered the "little red book" of the Reagan Administration |
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The Fatal Conceit
by Friedrich A. von Hayek
Hayek passionately sums up his lifelong battle with socialism in this masterpiece, published in 1988, just one year before the fall of the Berlin Wall. This brilliant manifesto conclusively demonstrates that socialism, from its origins, has been mistaken on scientific, factual, and logical grounds, and its repeated failures are the direct outcome of these errors.
A Morton Blackwell "Read to Lead" Selection.
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The Road to Serfdom
by Friedrich A. von Hayek
This classic by one of the 20th century's leading libertarian thinkers (and Nobel laureates) has established itself beside the works of Orwell and others as a timeless meditation on the relationship between human freedom and government authority. Hayek shows that empowering government with increasing economic control leads not to utopia but to horrors such those seen in Nazi Germany.
A Morton Blackwell "Read to Lead" Selection.
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Economics in One Lesson
by Henry Hazlitt
The finest -- and most readable -- introduction to economics ever written. Hayek said: "I know of no other modern book from which the intelligent layman can learn so much about the basic truths of economics in so short a time."
A Morton Blackwell "Read to Lead" Selection.
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Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey
by David Horowitz
David Horowitz underwent the most dramatic political conversion since Whittaker Chambers. And at every stop of his intellectual journey, he has produced sparkling and provocative commentary. From his youthful days as a leader of the New Left in the 1960s to his current role as master strategist of the right, Horowitz’s polemical legacy is unmatched in wit and integrity.
Horowitz’s newest book, Left Illusions: An Intellectual Odyssey, provides the first map of his intellectual development. Complementing his acclaimed autobiography, Radical Son, the selections in Left Illusions range from his first book, published over forty years ago, to his most recent writings on the war against terror. The pieces include his polemics, journalism, and scholarship, along with select chapters from most of his books. Their subjects range from the origins of the New Left to the Cold War, from the fall of communism to political radicalism, race relations, the war on terror, the intellectual culture wars, and modern conservatism. Twenty-eight of the selections have not been published in book form or are contained in texts that are generally unavailable. |
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The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Elliot
by Russell Kirk
The book which launched the modern conservative movement. Kirk defines what he terms "the conservative mind" by examining the thoughts of many brilliant men, including Edmund Burke, James Fenimore Cooper, John Quincy Adams, Karl Marx, and others.
A Morton Blackwell "Read to Lead" Selection.
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The Heritage Guide to the Constitution
by Ed Meese, et al.
No document is more central or more important to securing "the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity" than the United States Constitution, and no guide to the Constitution is more thorough, more enlightening, or more useful. Former Attorney General Edwin Meese brings together more than one hundred of the nation’s best legal experts to provide the first ever line-by-line examination of the of the complete Constitution and its contemporary meaning.
Stressing the original intent of the Framers as the authoritative standard of constitutional interpretation, and never straying from the Constitution and the definitive writings of the Framers, this volume is unique, comprehensive, and authoritative. |
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It's Getting Better All the Time : 100 Greatest Trends of the Last 100 Years
by Stephen Moore and Julian Lincoln Simon
How has the United States changed over the past century? Is life truly better now than it was in the past? Using detailed research, Moore (Wall Street Journal Senior Economics Writer, Founding President of The Club for Growth, TheVanguard.Org board member) and the late Simon (Cato Senior Fellow and famed "doom-slayer") argue that for the most part people entering the new millennium are dramatically better off than their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents. The areas covered include health, economics, race relations, safety, environmental issues, and women's rights. A large number of charts and graphs, well complemented by an extensive index and a bibliography, shows the positive changes that have taken place over the past 100 years. Readers will appreciate the information provided by these colorful graphics, which readily allow for additional research on subjects of interest. |
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Enlightened Democracy: The Case for the Electoral College
by Tara Ross, forward by George Will
Following the contested election of 2000, opponents of the Electoral College were swift to dismiss the institution as outdated and elitist, an anachronism that should be replaced by a direct popular vote. The critics are wrong, and this book shows why. Enlightened Democracy traces the history of the Electoral College from the Constitutional Convention to the present, and along the way it explains why the Framers took such pride in their now-controversial creation. After reading this book the case is clear: The Electoral College doesn't ignore the will of the people: it protects our republic and promotes our liberty. |
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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations
by Adam Smith
Based on his previous writings on human behaviour (particularly The Theory of Moral Sentiments), Adam Smith, the greatest thinker of the Scottish Enlightenment, shows, systematically and consistently, how a market-based economic system promotes general welfare through the maximization of individual outcomes. This book is a true masterpiece and laid the foundations not only for modern economic analysis, but for the entire modern world. Smith remains one of the most powerful writers on capitalism and freedom.
See Also The Theory of Moral Sentiments
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Basic Economics: A Citizen's Guide to the Economy
by Thomas Sowell
In this groundbreaking work, Sowell explains the basics of economics without resorting to the graphs, equations, and jargon that typically fill the textbooks and literature in the field. |
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Applied Economics: Thinking Beyond Stage One
by Thomas Sowell
The ideal companion volume to the acclaimed Basic Economics -- a guide to how our economic decisions turn out in practical terms.
The application of economics to major contemporary real world problems--housing, medical care, discrimination, the economic development of nations--is the theme of this new book that tackles these and other issues head on in plain language, as distinguished from the usual jargon of economists. It examines economic policies not simply in terms of their immediate effects but also in terms of their later repercussions, which are often very different and longer lasting. The interplay of politics with economics is another theme of Applied Economics, whose examples are drawn from experiences around the world, showing how similar incentives and constraints tend to produce similar outcomes among very disparate peoples and cultures. |
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Knowledge and Decisions
by Thomas Sowell
Sowell brilliantly demonstrates the key reason socialism -- and all other non-free systems -- cannot help but fail: government bureaucrats can never have sufficient knowledge (much less wisdom) to make consistently good decisions for the whole society.
A Morton Blackwell "Read to Lead" Selection.
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