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Gabriel Garcia

Associated Researcher

Gabriel Garcia Alvarez works for the expansion of the ideas of freedom. He is an alumnus of Students for Liberty and TFAS, a writer for the Bastiat Scrolls, and an associated researcher for Fundación Internacional Bases and We Are Innovation.

Blog Posts

Why We Need a Flat Tax

June 25, 2024
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Economics

Making tax returns easier — without Turbo Tax — is just reason “The system of discriminatory taxation universally accepted under the misleading name of progressive taxation of income and inheritance is not a mode of taxation. It is rather a mode of disguised expropriation of the successful capitalists and entrepreneurs”. – Ludwig von Mises If the free market has been so successful at massively reducing poverty worldwide, then why do people continue to complain about inequality? People often argue that the free market has enabled a small group of wealthy individuals to profit

High Time to Rethink High Schooling

June 5, 2024
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Economics

Why Educational Vouchers Are Not Enough In 1955, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Milton Friedman, introduced the idea of school vouchers in his essay "The Role of Government in Education." Friedman’s convictions about vouchers led him to found the EdChoice Foundation along with his wife, Rose Friedman. They showed us the benefits of the voucher system in American classrooms before the college level. The foundation also brings people together and equips them with high-quality research, analysis, policy expertise, and messaging strategies. EdChoice has three pillars: research