Taxes and Spending

Americans are pilfered and looted at every step. 

Taxes distort the price system and always alter behavior away from the free-market ideal. That is why, as J.B. Say said, the best tax is always the lowest tax. But in recent years, state and local governments have been using the tax system, along with direct subsidies of all sorts, to influence where particular firms locate, all in an effort to generate more growth and thus more tax revenue. Can states and localities really "buy growth" for themselves through this means?

The reason they are ever higher. 

Has paperwork really been reduced?

Creative accounting by the Clinton administration has taken the government's budgetary imbalances out of the media's spotlight. But there is no basis for believing that we are entering a new era of fiscal responsibility. Deficits are likely to dominate future decades just as they dominated the past three.

The public debate on Social Security is wildly off track. 

Why Social Security cannot be reformed.

Privatization is code for an expensive mandatory savings program.

They said the deficit meant they could not cut taxes. What's the latest excuse?

Will government use any trick to get more revenue? Have a look at what's happening to the oil industry.