# Sheldon Richman **URL:** --- Sheldon Richman is former vice president and editor at the Future of Freedom Foundation and former senior editor at the Cato Institute and the Institute for Humane Studies. For fifteen years, he was editor of _The Freeman_, published by the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, New York. He is the author of _Separating School \& State: How to Liberate America's Families_; _Your Money or Your Life: Why We Must Abolish the Income Tax_; and _Tethered Citizens: Time to Repeal the Welfare State_. He runs the Free Association blog at his website, [sheldonrichman.com](http://www.sheldonrichman.com/).