Child Subsidies versus More Immigration
This weekend I watched a CBS Sunday Morning show that I had taped a few weeks ago. There was a...
Taxation
The power to subsidize is the power to destroy
There’s a famous old saying (by John Marshall?): The power to tax involves the power to destroy. Subsidies are essentially...
A Tax-Based Attack on Capital and Labor
If higher taxes on capital cause the budding investor not to start a new firm, then the capital that would...
Did the 2017 Tax Cut Leave the Majority of Americans Behind?
In his recent State of the Union speech, President Biden stated, “Unlike the $2 trillion tax cut passed in the...
About Those Fossil Fuel “Subsidies”
Is failure to tax a subsidy? In a comment on Bryan Caplan’s recent blog post titled “I Win My Climate...
Are taxes the price we pay for civilization?
Autumn is usually the time when countries’ parliaments try to reach an agreement on the amount of taxes to be...
Students Open to Evidence on Taxes
Interviewers at campusreform.org often go on campuses to interview college students about their knowledge of various current issues. There has...
The Biden Full Court Press Against Economic Freedom
I’ve been following economic policy closely since Richard Nixon’s assault on economic freedom with his August 15, 1971, economywide price...
A Modest Proposal on Beef
Taxes: There’s their Beef Co-blogger Bryan Caplan and his favorite philosopher Michael Huemer have debated whether one should eat beef....
Boudreaux on Government’s Nature
Don Boudreaux writes: One general lesson that I draw from facts such as this one is about the unfortunate but...
