Consumption taxes
I highly recommend a recent Matt Yglesias post on taxes. This caught my eye: My preferred framework for a progressive...
Taxation
A Libertarian Dilemma
Last week, I noticed that there’s a measure on the November ballot to impose a sales tax on revenue earned...
Horrible FDA Regulation of Infant Formula
I thought I had known the major government contributors to the baby formula crisis. But the following 3 paragraphs tell...
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...
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...
