Taxes and Spending

Hans Sennholz discusses the many proposals to reform the program and save it from its demographic failings. Demographics, he argues, are a distraction from the core problems.

For local government bureaucrats around the country the Fifth Amendment has been stood on its head, with "public use" meaning any private use that generates more tax booty for city hall and "just compensation" meaning whatever the local government goons can steal the property for, writes Doug French.

Big loss for sales tax supporters in Washington State,

The middle classes have always been the only dependable source for taxes. If a government really wants revenue, that is where they have to go. 

Economists of an Austrian bent just can't take off their analytical spectacles, writes Mark Thornton, even when undertaking simple life activities like driving from here to there.

How is the big spender ever able to campaign on a platform that he has reduced the cost of government to taxpayers? Robert Murphy shows what's wrong with the claim.

Sean Corrigan shows how Rome and her history can give us a reaffirmation of our unshaken belief in the ability of Everyman, acting as a free individual, to repair all the damage ever done by history’s tyrants and their tax gatherers.

How is the Philippine government going to avert a looming fiscal crisis, which has been mounting for years? Of course, writes Grant Nülle, taxpayers will have to atone for the enormous debts run up by bureaucrats, legislators and managers of GOCCs.

The government stumbles or runs into crisis after crisis, writes Gregory Bresiger.