Taxes and Spending

Does US military spending overseas actually keep us safer or does it simply keep the military-industrial complex alive and well-funded?

In this open letter to Donald Trump, free-market economists outline steps Trump should take to free the economy.

Government spending — not the size of the deficit — is the real problem with government intervention in the economy.

Protectionism is about giving consumers and ordinary people fewer choices while making them pay more for goods and services.

Regardless of what is actually happening in the world, one thing is certain: in the long run, the Pentagon budget will not go down.

Nevada's troubled pension plan provides ample evidence of why governments can not handle the task of running retirement funds.

Thanks to government meddling, we all pay more for sugar to benefit a few powerful interest groups.

Unilateral free trade is not some utopian libertarian ideal. It is a real-world policy that has been used and which reaps economic rewards.

Gas station owners have come up with a creative way to take more of their customers' money via the power of taxation.

Iceland is not the only country coming up with "creative" ways to seize your wealth and income. The US is going down this path as well.