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The debate about waste of taxes is as old as the modern tax system itself, but it has never been more relevant than it is today. Public funds flow into projects whose usefulness is often incomprehensible. Authorities and politicians give money... [...]

Nachrichtendienste werden in demokratischen Staaten mit dem Schutz vor Spionage, Terrorismus und schwerwiegenden Gefahren begründet. Ihre Arbeit findet jedoch weitgehend im Verborgenen statt und entzieht sich dadurch einer Kontrolle, die in anderen Bereichen staatlichen Handelns… [...]

State participation in Condor is a blatant, brazen mistake, because billions of tax money are pumped into a company that has no strategic relevance for national infrastructure and is perceived as a cheap holiday airline,... [...]

The idea of a free and independent media world is one of the most important self-images of Western democracies. At the same time, a look at the history of government public relations, intelligence operations and political influence shows that the media is repeatedly deliberately controlled, with fake... [...]

The bureaucracy in the healthcare system has mutated into an unbearable bloated monster because an unmanageable number of health insurance companies with highly endowed boards create a grotesque administrative parallel world in which contributions prefer to flow into management palaces and PR departments as... [...]

The combustion ban, as planned and discussed in the next few years, brings with it a large number of serious problems. In many regions - especially outside the large metropolitan areas - the charging infrastructure is insufficiently available.... [...]

Die Kriege gegen den Irak, Libyen und Syrien zeigen ein wiederkehrendes Muster westlicher Außenpolitik und öffentlicher Berichterstattung. Zuerst wird eine angeblich unmittelbar bevorstehende Katastrophe beschworen, anschließend wird ein militärisches Eingreifen als moralische Pflicht dargestellt. Die… [...]

The cantillon effect describes a fundamental inequality in the distribution of newly created money supply in an economy. Not all benefit equally; Rather, it is primarily banks, politically favored groups and large investors who have early access to... [...]