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?
Hot Plates, Neon Pineapples, and SNAP Swindling
For a Californian like me, the first time encountering a “Koolickle” is an unsettling experience. Stepping inside the local mom-and-pop gas station to fill up my gas tank and being asked if I have ever tried a Kool-Aid pickled cucumber put me on my heels. “It looks like it’s glowing,” I mumble to the lady...