The Sy Hersh effect: killing the messenger, ignoring the message

Tax Freedom Day Underestimates How Long You Work For The Government Authored by Jonathan Newman via The Mises Institute, Tax Freedom Day, calculated by the Tax Foundation, “represents how long Americans as a whole have to work in order to pay the nation’s tax burden.” It appears that they stopped publishing this in 2019, but others have picked up where they left off. The idea is that the income earned by taxpayers over a certain proportion of the year goes to Uncle Sam. In 2025, that date was April 16th. But the burden of government...

A UN investigation into the violence in Syria’s Suwayda Governorate in July of last year concluded that more than 1,700 people were killed and nearly 200,000 displaced in the course of the fighting and subsequent massacres, and that some of the incidents may amount to war crimes. The July incident began with clashes between Bedouin […]

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