The latest “Economics 101” video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) features Natasha Montague of Americans for Tax Reform explaining the benefit to people and economies when governments compete through tax policy. The video, entitled “Tax Competition: A Powerful Force to Restrain Big Government,” shows why public policy is much better when governments have to compete for jobs and investment.

This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation Economics 101 video succinctly explains why tax competition restrains excessive government since politicians realize that jobs and investment can cross bordes if they get too greedy and impose punitive tax policy.

A new video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) examines how foreign countries have successfully solved fiscal problems by restraining the growth of government spending. Entitled, “Spending Restraint, Part II: Lessons from Canada, Ireland, Slovakia, and New Zealand,” the mini-documentary is a follow-up to CF&P’s last video, which demonstrated how Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton successfully curtailed the burden of government.

Nations can make remarkable fiscal progress if policy makers simply limit the growth of government spending. This video, which is Part II of a series, uses examples from recent history in Canada, Ireland, Slovakia, and New Zealand to demonstrate how it is possible to achieve rapid improvements in fiscal policy by restraining the burden of government spending. Part I of the series examined how Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton were successful in controlling government outlays — particularly the burden of domestic spending programs.

Fiscal policy wonks (like me, I’m forced to admit) sometimes miss the forest because we focus too much on individual trees. So while I think my posts on the spending and revenue sides of Obama’s new budget contained lots of useful information, I didn’t pay any attention to the elephant in the room (I’m really […]

A new video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) demonstrates how it is possible to curtail the burden of government. Entitled,”Spending Restraint, Part I: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton,” the mini-documentary highlights the examples provided by two recent Presidents – both a Republican and a Democrat – to show that good fiscal policy is feasible.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both reduced the relative burden of government, largely because they were able to restrain the growth of domestic spending. The mini-documentary from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity uses data from the Historical Tables of the Budget to show how Reagan and Clinton succeeded and compares their record to the fiscal profligacy of the Bush-Obama years.

In the latest “Economics 101” video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P), Blayne Bennett of Students for Liberty explains why big government doesn’t work. The video, entitled “Four Reasons Why Big Government Is Bad Government,” provides the necessary foundation for understanding the problems created by big government, and why we need to shrink the size and scope of the federal government.

This Economics 101 video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity explains that excessive government spending undermines prosperity by diverting resources from the productive sector of the economy. Moreover, the two main ways of financing government – taxes and borrowing – cause additional economic damage.