Taxes and Spending

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David Gordon

Effective poverty relief becomes easier as workers become more productive. Fortunately, capitalism makes this possible.

Kai Weiss

If Paul Krugman took a more serious look at Europe, he would see that austerity policies really do produce a better economy.

Louis Rouanet

Ireland has tried to attract businesses by undercutting the tax rates of its neighbors. That is a good thing wherever it occurs.

Mark Thornton

Free-trade deals — which are more about increasing government power than trade — are in retreat in the face of Brexit and Trump.

Ryan McMaken

In 2016, candidates are ignoring the issue of social benefits and federal spending. Experience suggests opposing social spending is political suicide.

Jeff Deist

Politicians and elites viscerally hate any form of tax competition — at least for the plebes.

Ryan McMaken

There is no bright line that divides the allegedly "free-market" US from the "socialist" welfare states of Western Europe.

Brittany Hunter

"Private" prisons are really just taxpayer-funded, monopolistic agents for the state. There is nothing free market about them.

Peter G. Klein

When donors give big bucks to the Clinton Foundation, they may just be paying the price of doing business in a highly regulated economy.

Brittany Hunter

How is it possible for Millennials to favor both a socialist government and a capitalist economy? It is simple, they don't truly understand the concepts.