Taxes and Spending

Robert Nozick’s Anarchy, State and Utopia turns fifty this year, and this libertarian classic has stood the test of time.

Biden’s newest proposal for steel tariffs join a long list of tariff policies that ignore the unseen damage that will be done to the U.S.

While Social Security is not exactly a pension system, it has had a negative effect on private pension plans and has discouraged people from engaging in long-term savings. In the end, its negative effects outweigh the positive ones.

Government officials like to claim they are doing something about reducing poverty. The trouble is, of course, that what they are doing makes things worse. Here on Income Tax Day, we recommend that next time, they should do nothing.

It’s official: the Department of Treasury is now issuing debt at pandemic levels. It’s worth noting the pandemic record was double the previous record, which had stood for 231 years.

The Ludwig von Mises Memorial Lecture. Sponsored by Yousif Almoayyed.

Many economic think tanks espouse that national defense spending benefits Americans at large. It doesn’t. The notion that military spending "bolsters" the economy is yet another Keynesian fable.

As the federal government's debt approaches $35 trillion, default one way or another is inevitable. Many US states already have used that method to eliminate their debts.

It is not surprising that some US states are facing large deficits between budgeted spending and incoming revenues. However, state bankruptcies occur when states cannot meet their bond obligations, which have little to do with operating expenses.

Many economic think tanks espouse that national defense spending benefits Americans at large. It doesn’t. The notion that military spending "bolsters" the economy is yet another Keynesian fable.