Kurt R. Leube

“Wir können uns dieses System das wir heute so haben mit dem was wir wirtschaftlich so erwirtschaften in der BRD einfach nicht mehr leisten. Wir leben seit Jahren über unsere Verhältnisse”. “We can simply no longer afford this system that we have today with what we economically generate in the Federal Republic of Germany. For […]

    Well, my plan, actually Larry Kudlow, who’s a fantastic guy, I think likes my plan the most. I’m cutting taxes by about the most.   Donald J. Trump Given the deep flaws of President Donald Trump’s 2017 tax reduction act — it was not only warily tilted towards the top earners, it was […]

On Bernard de Mandeville’s 355. Anniversary of his birth Take Away Bernard de Mandeville (1670-1733) is the author of “The Fable of the Bees, or Private Vices, Public Advantages” (1714). Written in verse, this book is the very foundation of his cultural and social theory. For Mandeville virtuous individuals are not necessarily the source of […]

    The principle of equity embodied in The Flat Tax is that every taxpayer pays taxes in direct proportion to his income. As incomes double, triple, or grow tenfold, tax obligations double, triple, or rise tenfold. Those who earn more pay more. Alvin Rabushka and Robert E. Hall     Take Away The Flat […]

  Nowhere is freedom more important than where our ignorance is greatest – at the boundaries of knowledge, in other words, where nobody can predict what lies a step ahead. Friedrich A. von Hayek (1899-1992)   Take Away Published in 1960, on the 100th anniversary of J. St. Mill’s essay ‘On Liberty’, Friedrich A. von […]