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Grand Tax System - The Second Great Compromise
The ultra-wealthy are dodging their full tax rates using assets and debt, but a tax on assets is unconstitutional and unrealistic. America is at an ideological stalemate while our budget deficit grows and technological threats to the workforce are rising. It's time to evaluate economic compromises to better prepare our budget for a post-labor economy and confrontation with foreign adversaries.
Citizens of Nowhere Build Nothing Worth Keeping
We are the wealthiest civilization in human history, yet we build nothing worth keeping. The problem isn't capitalism. It's that we've lost the will to build for anyone other than ourselves.
Subsidiarity: The Case for Right-Sized Governance
A defense of subsidiarity as a governing principle for the United States, arguing that decisions made closest to the people they affect produce better outcomes, stronger communities, and a more effective federal government.
Reconsidering Popular Rule: A Critical Examination of Modern Democracy
Universal suffrage was supposed to give power to the people. Instead, it gave power to whoever controls what the people think. A critical examination of how liberal democracy failed the West — and what we should be willing to consider instead.