Taxes and Spending

There is no general social benefit from government spending regardless of how it is financed.

Continued bailouts undermine the entire economy by rewarding financial failure and discouraging productive economic activity.

Prompted by a listener request, Bob gives the standard economic analysis of tariffs and other types of taxes.

Spencer Morrison and Murray Sabrin debate the economic impacts and ethical implications of tariffs versus free trade policies.

For all of the claims that governments “create jobs,” in reality, government jobs come at a greater cost than any value those jobs may create. Government jobs are a burden to the economy.

Continued bailouts undermine the entire economy by rewarding financial failure and discouraging productive economic activity.

The American people have the great pleasure of electing either Joe Biden or Donald Trump as president this year.

For all of the claims that governments “create jobs,” in reality, government jobs come at a greater cost than any value those jobs may create. Government jobs are a burden to the economy.

Donald Trump recently addressed top CEOs with a proposal that he sells as helping to reduce income taxes.

In discussions of politics, it is common to see politicians praised for policies and programs that expand the welfare state.