Taxes and Spending

The Defense Authorization bill should remain notorious. It represents most of what is wrong with Washington.

James Champlin, a 19th-century critic of protectionism, anticipated many of the free-trade insights of the Austrian school.

The taxpayers will complain a little, but they'll be sure to re-elect most of the politicians who gave us this status quo.

Written in 1992, Murray Rothbard makes the case for renouncing Federal debt obligations.

The real question about an American default has always been less a matter of if, and more a matter of how and when.

Public servants on average are paid better than their private sector taxpaying counterparts. How exactly are they our "servants"?

With an excessive height of the income and estate tax rates for the very rich, a capitalist may consider it the most advisable thing to keep all his funds in cash or in bank balances not bearing any interest.

Without the hard work of the US taxpayer, the US government's military would have no salaries or weapons. So why are the taxpayers thanking them?

The only good news this week came for Uncle Sam, who set new records in tax collection for 2015.

The core assumption at work here is that more good things could be done if only more people were paying more in taxes.