Everyone agrees taxes need reform. But agreement on a problem doesn't mean we're pursuing the right solution. According to Milton Friedman, we've been trying the same failed approach for years. Congressional committees debate tax structure. State legislatures propose adjustments. Nothing changes. Government spending—and the taxes that fund it—keeps climbing. His prescription was radical in its simplicity: Stop trying to reform taxes. Focus on reducing them. "The only effective tax reform is tax

Walter Williams is pointing to what people already know from observing the real world: you can't create wealth by decree. We don't tell poor countries to mandate higher wages because we understand that doesn't work. Money is a measure of prosperity, but it is not, itself, prosperity. The inconsistency he's exposing is that minimum wage supporters apply different logic domestically than they would internationally. They claim it's an anti-poverty tool here, but they'd never suggest it as a solutio