Low taxes associated with modest-sized government induce greater population growth. Businesses and people want low taxes more than big government, and they vote with their feet by moving to low-tax havens like the Lone Star State. During the 1990s, approximately 1,000 people moved to states without an income tax every day excepting Sundays. That’s more people than fled from East to West Germany during the Cold War?
Economy
They Didn’t Love Freedom Enough, But We Do
In their apartments and homes, the Soviet citizens of Leningrad huddled in fear, wincing at every slam of the door, every step on stairs, every spoken word outside. Stalin’s Great Terror was upon them, and the relentless machine of his NKVD churned on, arresting and grinding up dissidents, disfavored minorities, and people that were just...
November 10, 2026