Taxes and Spending

Government officials cannot stand to be mocked, but Brazil's finance minister and his tax plans have made the regime the target of a new wave of mockery.

Taxing "the rich" won't make life more affordable for ordinary people. The true cause of the affordability crisis is inflation caused by central banks. 

The problem for most Americans is that it is increasingly difficult to make ends meet despite record government spending, or because of its negative impact on inflation and taxes.

The U.S. government is spending trillions of dollars to prop up military ventures around the world. This kind of spending and exhausting of military resources cannot be sustained much longer.

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.