Potential good and bad for the year ahead.
Daily Analysis
The Best and Worst News of 2023
The annual “best and worst” column features elections in Argentina and Colorado, positive education developments, and Chinese regression.
A Primer on Marginal Tax Rates, Part III: Hidden Taxes
Governments hide some taxes by ostensibly imposing them on employers.
Denmark and the Never-Answered Question
Did Denmark become a rich country with big government?
Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Which State Provides the Most Handouts of All?
It’s more lucrative in many states to live off the government rather than work.
There Are Not Enough Rich People to Finance European-Sized Government
Class-warfare tax proposals don’t come close to funding entitlements.
Beware Bad Budget Deals
Can a bipartisan commission save our fiscal future?
Demographic Doom and the Welfare State
A dramatic decline is coming.
Redistribution Undermines Prosperity: Evidence from Italy
The harmful impact of redistribution.
Scandinavian Governments Pillage Middle-Class Taxpayers
Why Nordic-style taxation would be undesirable in the United States