Taxes and Spending

Protectionism is about giving consumers and ordinary people fewer choices while making them pay more for goods and services.

Regardless of what is actually happening in the world, one thing is certain: in the long run, the Pentagon budget will not go down.

Nevada's troubled pension plan provides ample evidence of why governments can not handle the task of running retirement funds.

Thanks to government meddling, we all pay more for sugar to benefit a few powerful interest groups.

Unilateral free trade is not some utopian libertarian ideal. It is a real-world policy that has been used and which reaps economic rewards.

Gas station owners have come up with a creative way to take more of their customers' money via the power of taxation.

Iceland is not the only country coming up with "creative" ways to seize your wealth and income. The US is going down this path as well.

The national debt and cutting government spending simply are not topics the voters care about anymore.

High-frequency trading is not the nefarious scheme policymakers would have you believe it is. It serves a real purpose in the marketplace.

The critique of "trickle-down" economics relies on a mistaken zero-sum view that more income for some must reduce incomes to others.