Robin Hood is dead. Or at least seriously ailing. The politics of taking from the rich and giving to the poor -- the politics that philosophers from Aristotle to James Madison dreaded -- just doesn't ...

No matter how much Democrats may want Americans to believe otherwise, there's no such thing as a free lunch. Someone always pays the tab, and when it comes to government spending, that means taxpayers ...

Teachers, students, parents and school administrators marched up Congress Avenue in Austin in 2018 during a rally to restore public education funding. Dallas ISD and Plano ISD trustees Justin Henry ...

Rather than placing pay raises for teachers and staff, and increased per-student school funding at the top of the Texas Legislature’s agenda for the recent third special session, Gov. Greg Abbott ...

My Twitter mentions were the first sign anything was amiss. “Any one hot @iamwesmoore address?” one tweet asked. “Corporate scum. Someone’s gonna find you,” another tweet said. “I would never do such ...

Plano ISD sent this postcard to residents last fall so they'd understand that many of their school tax dollars don't stay in Plano. In Plano, like many parts of Texas, property taxes have been ...

The federal government takes the hard-earned money of taxpayers and gives handouts to farm households that generally make a lot more money than they do. This wealth transfer subsidizes the $15 billion ...

Right before the U.S. House of Representatives left for the summer to go home to campaign for your vote, members of Congress voted to extend the Bush era tax cuts for the richest Americans — ...

While globalization has harmed some people in rich countries, as factories and jobs migrated to where labor is cheaper, this has always seemed to be an ethically acceptable price to pay, because those ...