Tax Burdens, Per Capita Income, and Simpson’s Paradox
Is there a correlation between wealth and a higher tax burden? After, people like to say that more taxes mean more public services.
Taxes and Spending
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Why It’s so Hard to Escape America’s “Anti-Poverty” Programs
Between the regulation of business and penalties for rising income, anti-poverty policies in America make it so that many workers have no clear path to escape poverty.
Social Security Cannot Survive in Its Present Form
The Social Security program will have to be either inflated away with increasingly worthless dollars or Congress will have to intervene to cut benefits.
Social Security Is a Terrible “Investment”
Social Security has been a money-losing mess for decades, and it's a major drain on private sector saving and investment.
Foreign Aid Empowers Corrupt Regimes. End It.
US aid to foreign regimes helps free governments from having to raise funds from their own people. So, the recipients of foreign aid are likely to become less responsive and more corrupt.
US Mandatory Spending Projected to Increase Over a Trillion Dollars by 2023
Even if discretionary spending stays flat, total government outlays are estimated to increase by more than $1 trillion, significantly above any measure of tax revenues. And that is without considering a possible recession.
Argentina’s “Emergency Law” Just Means More of the Same
Argentina is only going to prosper when it recognizes that its fiscal and monetary imbalances are not the fault of the citizens and their small businesses, but of the government.
Meet the Spendthrifts
If the government were a sitcom family, they would be called the Spendthrifts, and no one would dream of trusting them with credit.
Brazilian States’ Economic Freedom Index: Applying Fraser’s Methodology for 2003–2016 Data
Vladimir Fernandes Maciel
Ulisses Monteiro Ruiz de Gamboa
Julian Alexienco Portillo
Mariangela Ghizellini
The Fraser Institute's Economic Freedom of North America report provides the method of evaluating the economic freedom of Brazilian states. Results suggest that Brazilian states' freedom scores have been declining.
“Low” Tax Rates Often Mask Much Larger Tax Burdens
The moral of this economic story is that whenever someone who has an incentive to lowball the burden of a tax is speaking or writing, be careful to look at what happens to take-home income as a better guide to policy.
