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The right decision of the President of Uzbekistan

Author: Yaroslav Romanchuk A common criticism of libertarians is that instead of offering innovations, solutions, and concrete projects, they direct all their efforts to discredit power and the status quo. For supporters of freedom, it is of utmost importance that the world understands that this criticism is unfounded. And we can do this by promoting working …

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What if we replaced taxes with donations?

Author: Jean Wilbert for fee.org Healthcare. Education. Along with others, these “goods” are considered so important that most modern governments go to great lengths to provide them to people on low incomes. Of course, we can’t really deny how important these services are. In a 2016 study, …

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The Brickell Paradox - More Soot, More Subsidies

Author: Vladislav Panev Bulgarian energy is the sector with the least real market and the only way to explain the processes in it is with a strong influence of the backstage. Varna TPP, for example, was an absolutely unnecessary asset while it was owned by CEZ. After the Czechs sold it to the former minister Danail Papazov (later he went …

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Jungian climate fanaticism

The climate change movement and the fanaticism of most of its supporters are not new, but they are starting to become more and more widespread, gaining more and more airtime and influence. Don't use straws, throw away separately, don't eat meat, don't reproduce. Every day we hear a different ...

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Resignation as a political penicillin for chronic incompetence in power

Author: Nikola Genov Prime Minister Borisov has proven in his long political career that he is extremely consistent in his inconsistency. Many analysts, both well-intentioned towards his governments and opposition-minded, recognize his political acumen. His ability to be a weather vane of public storms is probably the main reason for ten years of political scandals …

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The global financial and economic crisis of 2008 through the eyes of the Austrian School of Economics

Author: Kristiyan Korelov It has been more than a decade since one of the largest stock market panics in the United States occurred. Credit markets had completely stopped functioning (Gorton, 2008), and the situation was very similar to that of the panic of 1907, when banks were in massive need of liquidity and a huge part of …

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Why is Regulation H-18 on cash registers so disruptive to Bulgarian business?

Author: Veselin Pashov On 28.09.2018. the updated Regulation H18 concerning cash registers was published in the next issue of the State Gazette. In connection with fiscal devices, structural changes are being introduced concerning the manufacturers of such products, which, generally speaking, will lead to sending information every 5 minutes from the devices to the servers …

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Where does civil forfeiture break down?

Author: Alexander Terziev Besides being in direct contradiction with European law, it is more than obvious that the KPONPI will be used as a bludgeon against the opposition "The state policy to combat corruption is not aimed at retribution, but at restoring justice in society (...) regardless of the criminal proceedings against the person being investigated or ...

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Classic Christmas movies that say taxes are theft!

Author: Tom Mullen, fee.org These wonderful works of freedom have disappeared from today's politically correct holiday stuffing "And it came to pass, that there went out a decree from Augustus Caesar, that all the world should be taxed. And that all should be taxed, every man in his own city: for the disobedience of the Roman emperor...

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