A sober-minded assessment of how government really works.
Daily Analysis
What to Do About Bad Bureaucrats?
Some solutions to a serious problem.
Main Lesson from Tax Reform in Belgium? It’s Impossible to Have a Good Tax System and a Big Government
You can’t have a non-punitive tax system when the government is consuming half of what the private sector produces.
If We’re Going to Trust Governments to Enforce Law, then Governments Should Obey Law (and Limit Law)
Challenges to personal liberty.
Mr. Musk Goes to Mars
Are taxpayers going with him?
Notwithstanding the New Left-Wing Rhetorical Strategy, Higher Taxes and Bigger Government Is Not a Recipe for Growth and Development
It doesn’t matter how many euphemisms they employ, bigger government does not increase growth.
Anti-Economics from The Economist
What has The Economist got against economics?
More Predatory and Corrupt Behavior by Politicians
Reducing government is the only way to reduce corruption in government.
Hillary Clinton’s Plan to Create More Poverty and Dependency
Hillary gets a full Mitchell fisking.
The European Commission’s Attack on Apple and Ireland Is Really an Attack on Tax Competition
Elimination of competition between governments is the real goal of the European Commission.