Taxes and Spending

There is a lot of talk about tax reform these days. Not surprisingly, none of it involves cutting spending or lessening government revenue.

The military can't rationally allocate resources because it can't properly determine prices for them.

Our economy is making it harder to start businesses, keep businesses, and hire people. That's a recipe for disaster.

What hurts workers — and keeps them poor — is government regulation, which restricts competition.

The cartelized economy foisted on us since 9/11 has been a disaster for businesses and taxpayers. Will Trump return us to "normalcy"?

The CIA, a tax-supported government-created organization, will always be "politicized" and seek to increase its own power and wealth.

Europe's tobacco bans have managed to destroy businesses without actually getting people to stop smoking.

The words of the Bill of Rights are nice, but they mean nothing if the public abandons the ideology that underpins the Bill of Rights itself.

The left need not worry that Trump will be slashing government budgets. Nevertheless, there may still be some upsides to a Trump administration.

Promises of tax relief are rarely genuine, and when they are, there are almost always hidden costs in the form of increased political entrepreneurship and the expansion of regulation.