Taxes and Spending

When it comes to the effects of taxation, Krugman the economist appears to disagree with Krugman the New York Times columnist.

The major candidates had their first shared television event this week. Absent was any discussion of the real issues effecting the American people.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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