Taxes and Spending

“The ways of government are unknowable to man”. Somebody must have said that over the past 5000 years.

Gregory Bresiger draws the parallels: an unpopular war, a big-spending Republican president, an economy threatened by price controls.

I have a new article on the recently decided consumption tax (VAT) increase by the G

I cannot tell the difference between a joke and a policy proposal.

You hear it from them all the time; teachers just want a fair wage. Oh, well who doesn’t?

In a peculiar way, writes Paul Trescott, the underclass are subsidized by our prosperous society.

Today’s New York Times carries a piece by Krugman called &#822

Steve Forbes's plan for a flat tax seems good, writes Laurence Vance. But there are major problems. 

This piece by Charles Wheelan, by the economics editor of Yahoo Finance, is provocatively titled “