Fiscal Theory

Socialists like Bernie Sanders are pushing rebates as a substitute for tax cuts. William Anderson explains that the idea is morally and economically bankrupt.

Paul Krugman rails against cutting taxes, but his own quack solution is more of what brought about the downturn in the first place.

The system is wide open to abuse, maltreatment, and even corruption, writes Hans Sennholz

Economists like them, and they serve some useful purposes. But Frank Shostak reminds us that they can't predict the future.

Bill Anderson explains why politicians treat budget surpluses as their own personal reward, and wouldn't think of giving the money back from whence it came.  

This speech was delivered before the annual convention of the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons, St. Louis, Missouri, October 26, 2000.

In March, 1998, a series of public discussions between James Buchanan and Richard Musgrave took place at the University of Munich; these along with questions from the audience and an Introduction and Conclusion by Hans-Werner Sinn, 

An agency within an agency, and the political battle over its future, provides a case study of a much larger problem: government can't rationally allocate resources. 

Creative accounting by the Clinton administration has taken the government's budgetary imbalances out of the media's spotlight. But there is no basis for believing that we are entering a new era of fiscal responsibility. Deficits are likely to dominate future decades just as they dominated the past three.

Will giving the feds more control improve education?