Taxes and Spending

One of the reasons governments can run up huge deficits so easily is that the politicians — unlike entrepreneurs — can't be held accountable for their bad debts.

Significant opposition surrounded the development of state supported public secondary and higher education in New York State throughout the latter nineteenth century.

The bureaucrats at the IMF and other international bureaucracies actually want people to believe that bigger government means more prosperity.

Keynesism—the philosophy of big government spending, deficit financing, and continuous inflation—dominates nearly every government in the world.

Argentina is faced with a model that has disproportionately increased the tax burden on the most productive sectors to subsidize the lowest productivity sectors.

Once a government bureaucracy has been set up to do any job whatever, it will find endless excuses for expanding, prolonging, or perpetuating that job.

The median waiting time for patients in Canada from referral by a practitioner, to consultation with a specialist, to date of treatment, was 21.2 weeks in 2017.

We are told that if further signs of recession develop the government must spend more to keep the boom whipped up. This is false.

This is not going to end well. And the problem seems to get worse every year.

The success of the private sector precedes the ability to have any employment in the public sector at all. But teachers want the private sector to pay until it hurts.