Taxes and Spending

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Ryan McMaken
If the experience of Bush years is any indication, we should brace ourselves now for big increases in government spending.
Amy K. Frantz
It is fairly well known that government employees often make more than private-sector workers with similar skills. Things are especially bad in Iowa.
Gary Galles
Food stamps have long been promoted with the idea that they improve nutrition and health. Unfortunately, this has never been shown to be true.
Ryan McMaken
If the Bush years are an indication, there's little danger of seeing any GOP-led cuts to the Dept. of Education.
Ryan McMaken
Concerns over the US economy put Donald Trump in the White House. But Trump seems rather uninterested in the hard work of reforming economic policy.
Ron Paul
Congress may make some small cuts in spending, those cuts will be dwarfed by spending increases on infrastructure at home and military spending abroad.
Ryan McMaken
The total amounts taken out to pay for college degrees are much higher than the value of the degrees themselves. There is a market solution to this.
Gary Galles
Henry Hazlitt's Economics in One Lesson helps us see the many aspects of intervention in the marketplace we might not have noticed before.
Ryan McMaken
California says it may refuse to enforce federal immigration laws. But why stop with immigration laws? Many other federal laws should be ignored, too.
Alasdair Macleod
The threat of a US-UK trade pact is very bad news for the EU, but Trump's more mercantilist side spells trouble for the US and much of the world.