Taxes and Spending

The Poor Law Amendment of 1834 attempted to address the problem of runaway costs and abuses of the system. With mixed results.

French protests over a new climate-change-inspired fuel tax highlight high costs imposed on ordinary people by climate-change policies.

Those pushing Medicare for All rely on the presumption that it will generate huge administrative efficiencies. But they greatly underestimate the program's real administrative cost.

As the wage-earning population grows smaller as a proportion of the population, get ready for calls for "wealth taxes" which can keep the taxes coming in even as total wage incomes fall.

Including both government-funded abortion and war.

"Economic development" schemes, like those used to attract big corporate headquarters to one's city, are really just a type of governmental central planning.

Healthcare under the Bernie Sanders plan would be so expansive, centralized, and monolithic as to make the Canadian system look sensible by comparison.

In this 42-minute talk, Canadian historian and political scientist Ronald Hamowy discusses the basics of how Canadian healthcare works, plus the many rarely-mentioned true costs of the system.

Clearly, the proposal for increased usage of E15 is a government subsidy to corn growers and the ethanol industry.

When the advocate for a new tariff or a new regulation says he's willing to pay a few bucks more for the "good" of society — what he really means is you should pay more, whether you like it or not.