This article is the first part of a two-part examination of the contentious issue of how state governments' provision of goods and services to the public should be taxed under a VAT.

How a forced stand-off between two groups who have equal and opposing claims on the outcome could have been avoided entirely.

The teaching profession is crucial to America's society and economy, but public-school teachers should receive compensation that is neither higher nor lower than market rates.

Whether or not the individual mandate in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) proves to be constitutionally valid, it is based on mistaken premises, faulty economic analysis, short-sighted politics, and seriously flawed health policy.

Tom Miller's speech at the Pioneer Institute's health care policy luncheon and The Great Experiment book launch on March 13, 2012.

President Obama's speech continued his efforts to seduce the main organized interest groups of the health industry to listen to the magic words rather than pay attention to the content of imminent health legislation.

Instead of centralizing the health insurance system, smaller reforms, such as the implementation of an "entrepreneurs" health coverage policy, would improve efficiency in the health care sector.

Health care's critical problem, rising costs, would be solved with more competition and greater individual control over health spending.