Articles by Laurence M. Vance on Mises.org

Published by the Ludwig von Mises Institute of Auburn, Alabama

 This article is a review of School Choices: True and False, by John Merrifield  "Vouchers: Another Central Plan," December 2003

This article is a review of Free Trade or Protection, by Henry George  "All Hail Free Trade (and Henry George)," August 2004

This article is a review of a book on the economics of the Civil War  "The Misnamed Conflict," December 2004

This article is a review of Voucher Wars: Waging the Legal Battle over School Choice, by Clint Bolick  "Vouchers: Another Income Redistribution Scheme," February 2005

This article is about how the great economist Ludwig von Mises viewed the relation of religion to the state  "Mises Debunks the Religious Case for the State," February 2005

This article is about the Republican tax welfare scheme called the Additional Child Tax Credit  "The Republican Welfare State (Yet Again)," April 2005

This article is about how the withholding tax disguises what we really pay in taxes  "The Curse of the Withholding Tax," April 2005

This article is against a national sales tax proposal called the FairTax  "The Fair Tax Fraud," May 2005

This article is a review of How Capitalism Saved America by Thomas J. DiLorenzo  "What They Won't Tell You about Capitalism," August 2005

This article is about state-mandated handicapped parking  "The State Invades the Parking Lot," August 2005

This article is a negative review of Neal Boortz's FairTax book  "There is No Such Thing As a Fair Tax," December 2005

This article is a defense of Wal-Mart against socialists and others who criticize the company  "How Not to Like Wal-Mart," March 2006

This is a review/article of the new Steve Forbes Flat Tax book  "Flat Tax Folly," April 2006

This article is about how fraudulent the FairTax plan is  "The Fraudulent Tax," October 2006

This article is about Francis Wayland, the Baptist preacher who wrote a book on economics  "Francis Wayland: Preacher-Economist," February 2007

This article is about how the income tax can be painlessly eliminated  "Real Tax Reform," April 2007

This article is the text of the Lou Church Memorial Lecture at the Mises Institute  "The Myth of the Just Price," March 2008

  "There Is Still No Such Thing As a Fair Tax," April 2008 [forthcoming]

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