# Center for Freedom and Prosperity

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## Posts

- [Trump’s Trade Taxes Are Political Poison for the GOP](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/trumps-trade-taxes-are-political-poison-for-the-gop/): Americans recognize tariffs as taxes that make life more expensive. Republicans’ refusal to reverse them could turn a household affordability squeeze into a midterm backlash.
- [Investment, Productivity, Double Taxation, and Worker Compensation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/investment-productivity-double-taxation-and-worker-compensation/): Repeated taxes on capital may target the wealthy, but the consequences reach ordinary workers.
- [Good Trump vs. Bad Trump](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/good-trump-vs-bad-trump/): Can the benefits of Trump's deregulation agenda survive the burdens of his own trade policies?
- [The Most Depressing Chart about the Global Economy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-most-depressing-chart-about-the-global-economy/): Sluggish growth is feeding voter frustration and populist politics around the world. What is holding back productivity?
- [Canada Reduces the Tax Burden on New Investment](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/canada-reduces-the-tax-burden-on-new-investment/): Broadening permanent immediate expensing would encourage investment in better equipment, and strengthen productivity and wages.
- [Tax Increases Are the Wrong Way of Dealing with the Social Security Mess](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/tax-increases-are-the-wrong-way-of-dealing-with-the-social-security-mess/): Reform should address rising spending and poor retirement returns.
- [State Tax Progress, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/state-tax-progress-part-iii/): Many states are embracing flat taxes even as Washington’s fiscal policy deteriorates.
- [The Simple Solution to the Controversy about the Kennedy Center](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-simple-solution-to-the-controversy-about-the-kennedy-center/): Why should taxpayers subsidize entertainment for affluent Washington audiences?
- [Trump’s Income Challenge, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/trumps-income-challenge-part-ii/): Weak income growth is leaving Americans feeling stuck on a treadmill. Trump could provide an economic boost by repealing his signature policy.
- [New York City’s Moocher Mayor](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/new-york-citys-moocher-mayor/): A $4 billion state bailout risks rewarding the overspending that made it necessary.
- [Trump’s Goofy – and Deeply Misguided – Scheme for $5,000 Handout](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/big-government/trumps-goofy-and-deeply-misguided-scheme-for-5000-handout/): Trump’s proposed “dividend” is another spending scheme that would deepen America’s fiscal troubles.
- [How to Make Life Better for the Middle Class (and Everyone Else)](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/how-to-make-life-better-for-the-middle-class-and-everyone-else/): Americans are getting richer, yet many families still feel squeezed. Less government intervention offers a better path to affordability.
- [The Invisible Hand of Free Enterprise Enables Great Prosperity, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-invisible-hand-of-free-enterprise-enables-great-prosperity-part-ii/): Everyday marvels show why free enterprise deserves more breathing room, and why growing government intervention is so alarming.
- [The United States vs. Europe, Part VII](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-united-states-vs-europe-part-vii/): Should America copy Europe’s high-tax welfare states? Comparisons of household consumption challenge assumptions about which system delivers higher living standards.
- [Donald Trump’s Historical Illiteracy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/donald-trumps-historical-illiteracy/): Trump predictably ranks himself “the greatest,” but there's plenty of other problems with his ranking of presidents.
- [Assessing Unions on Labor Day](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/assessing-unions-on-labor-day/): Union membership keeps shrinking in private industry but remains entrenched in government. What explains the divide?
- [Part II: Trump’s Most Impressive Accomplishment?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/part-ii-trumps-most-impressive-accomplishment/): New polling reveals an ironic twist.
- [The Economic Illiteracy of Tariff Man, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-economic-illiteracy-of-tariff-man-part-ii/): A simple lesson exposes the flaw in Trump’s trade-deficit claims.
- [A Primer on Government Spending and Red Ink, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/a-primer-on-government-spending-and-red-ink-part-iii/): How much time can the dollar’s special status buy America before debt hits a tipping point?
- [The Milei Miracle, Part VI](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-milei-miracle-part-vi/): Argentina’s gains under Javier Milei extend beyond falling inflation and poverty.
- [The Milei Miracle, Part V](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-milei-miracle-part-v/): Milei’s spending restraint has these six measures improving.
- [Part II: Is Milei Winning Hearts and Minds?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/uncategorized/part-ii-is-milei-winning-hearts-and-minds/): Betting markets disagree and polls whether he is winning enough hearts and minds to earn another term.
- [The Cost of Socialism in Ghana](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-cost-of-socialism-in-ghana/): Ghana and Botswana show how policy choices create long-term divergences.
- [Sloppy (Non) Poverty Charts from the Visual Capitalist](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/sloppy-non-poverty-charts-from-the-visual-capitalist/): Be careful using misleading OECD poverty data!
- [Can Chile Once Again Become the Latin Tiger?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/can-chile-once-again-become-the-latin-tiger/): Chile’s market reforms once powered decades of strong growth. New tax cuts and investment incentives could revive momentum, if the government does one key thing.
- [A Good Day for Javier Milei](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/a-good-day-for-javier-milei/): An encouraging advance for Javier Milei’s agenda despite his party lacking a majority.
- [The Pro-Growth Impact of Deregulation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-pro-growth-impact-of-deregulation-2/): Evidence across OECD countries suggests that labor and product-market reforms can lift private investment over time.
- [Defining Socialism, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/defining-socialism-part-ii/): Labels matter less than the real test: whether policy expands state power at the expense of economic liberty and prosperity.
- [Prospects for Economic Reform in Colombia](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/prospects-for-economic-reform-in-colombia/): Prosperity requires bold, broad reforms.
- [Applauding Ricky Gervais’ Marriage](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/applauding-ricky-gervais-marriage/): Families have reason to protect what they have built.
- [Artificial Intelligence and the 8th Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/artificial-intelligence-and-the-8th-theorem-of-government/): The question that matters for AI is whether innovation ultimately raises living standards for everyone.
- [The Miracle of Compounding Growth, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-miracle-of-compounding-growth-part-iii/): Growth is the best way to help the less fortunate in societies.
- [Fidel Castro: Human Garbage](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/fidel-castro-human-garbage/): Fidel Castro's human and economic wreckage deserves to be remembered.
- [Defending Trump’s Medicaid Reforms](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/defending-trumps-medicaid-reforms/): When is a cut not a cut?
- [Everything You Need to Know about the Harmful Impact of U.S. Elevator Regulation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-harmful-impact-of-u-s-elevator-regulation/): How regulation can reduce both affordability and accessibility.
- [Government Failure in Africa, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/government-failure-in-africa-part-ii/): Why has sub-Saharan Africa remained the world’s most economically repressed region?
- [Free Markets, Socialism, and J.D. Vance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/free-markets-socialism-and-j-d-vance/): Government promises to “make people’s lives better” risk recreating the entitlement logic they claim to oppose.
- [Capitalism Is A Great Way of Getting Rid of Poor People (by Lifting Them Out of Poverty)](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/capitalism-is-a-great-way-of-getting-rid-of-poor-people-by-lifting-them-out-of-poverty/): As capitalism has spread and trade has expanded, poverty is becoming a smaller and smaller problem.
- [The Trump Administration’s Progress on Food Stamps](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-trump-administrations-progress-on-food-stamps/): If states such as California, Illinois, and New York want to fund junk food, they should be doing it with their own funds.
- [Republican Socialism, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/republican-socialism-part-ii/): Just imagine the damage a future leftist president could do now that Trump has paved the way.
- [Blue State Dysfunction](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/blue-state-dysfunction/): How bureaucracy compounds tragedy: Wildfire survivors face a second disaster.
- [The United States vs. Europe, Part VI](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/big-government/the-united-states-vs-europe-part-vi/): American workers earn more, these policies are why.
- [Inequality and Prosperity, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/inequality-and-prosperity-part-ii/): Gini coefficients? Should we care?
- [A Primer on Government Spending and Red Ink, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/a-primer-on-government-spending-and-red-ink-part-ii/): Government spending is the disease, but persistent deficits can turn into fiscal crisis.
- [A Primer on Government Spending and Red Ink, Part I](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/a-primer-on-government-spending-and-red-ink-part-i/): America’s fiscal crisis begins with excessive government spending, and why higher taxes won't end it.
- [Great Moments in Irish Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/great-moments-in-irish-government/): When virtue signaling backfires.
- [More Evidence Against Keynesian Economics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/more-evidence-against-keynesian-economics/): A new study undercuts the Keynesian claim that destruction leads to wealth.
- [Part II: Demographics + Entitlements = Europe’s Doom](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/part-ii-demographics-entitlements-europes-doom/): Four charts show how demographics, spending, and debt are converging.
- [More Gas Taxes =/= Better Roads](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/more-gas-taxes-better-roads/): A look across the states suggests that more revenue is no substitute for better transportation policy.
- [The Adverse Economic Consequences of Big-Government Populism, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-adverse-economic-consequences-of-big-government-populism-part-iii/): The short-lived “sugar high” of easy money carries a costly hangover.
- [Part III: What’s the Better Role Model, France or Switzerland?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/part-iii-whats-the-better-role-model-france-or-switzerland/): France and Switzerland offer sharply different fiscal paths. The latest comparisons point toward a clear role model.
- [The Most Depressing Chart about Germany](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-most-depressing-chart-about-germany/): This striking chart exposes how taxes can turn advancement into a financial trap.
- [Part II: Is It Good or Bad to Have More Rich People?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/part-ii-is-it-good-or-bad-to-have-more-rich-people/): Britain is losing millionaires while America is gaining them—and the economic data reveal why that contrast matters far beyond the fortunes of the wealthy.
- [The Predictable Folly of Government Grocery Stores](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-predictable-folly-of-government-grocery-stores/): Cities have tried government run grocery stores before, and they did not do well.
- [The World’s Best Leader, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-worlds-best-leader-part-ii/): Reducing red tape and government spending has allowed a significant reduction in the number of bureaucrats.
- [Revenge of the Laffer Curve…Again](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/revenge-of-the-laffer-curveagain/): Scottish taxpayers pay for an expensive lesson for politicians.
- [While Congress Investigates, the UAW Is Gambling With Your Paycheck](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/news/while-congress-investigates-the-uaw-is-gambling-with-your-paycheck/): UAW leadership's priorities and the priorities of the people paying dues don't look like the same thing.
- [New Research Further Confirms Anti-Growth Impact of Wealth Taxation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/new-research-further-confirms-anti-growth-impact-of-wealth-taxation/): Increasing the tax bias against capital is bad news for workers.
- [Part I: Is It Good or Bad to Have More Rich People?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/part-i-is-it-good-or-bad-to-have-more-rich-people/): An economic Rorschach.
- [Wagner’s Law, Leisure, and the Growth of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/wagners-law-leisure-and-the-growth-of-government/): Why do people tolerate growing tax burdens?
- [Big Government, Trump, and Big Corruption: Part I](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/big-government/big-government-trump-and-big-corruption-part-i/): More benefits to smaller government.
- [Does Chinese Performance Tell us Anything About Socialism?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/does-chinese-performance-tell-us-anything-about-socialism/): Where would China's middle class rank in the US?
- [Mixing Class Warfare and Keynesian Economics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/mixing-class-warfare-and-keynesian-economics/): Keynesian economics is backward.
- [Fixing Argentina’s Punitive Tax System](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/fixing-argentinas-punitive-tax-system/): The fire has been extinguished, the flood waters have receded, but now it's time to renovate.
- [Fiscal Decay (and Some Progress) in OECD Nations](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/fiscal-decay-and-some-progress-in-oecd-nations/): Corporate tax progress has stalled, and a sneaky approach to tax hiking in the UK.
- [New York’s Fiscal Suicide, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/new-yorks-fiscal-suicide-part-ii/): Why New York is such a mess.
- [Medicaid’s Ever-Expanding Fiscal Burden](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/medicaids-ever-expanding-fiscal-burden/): Politicians should not engage in demagoguery about make-believe cuts.
- [The Economic and Human Cost of Occupational Licensing, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-economic-and-human-cost-of-occupational-licensing-part-ii/): Which nations impose the most barriers to work and entrepreneurship and which ones allow free enterprise?
- [Learning from Social Security/Pension Reforms in OECD Nations](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/learning-from-social-security-pension-reforms-in-oecd-nations/): Some nations are opting for the right approach and others are choosing the wrong approach.
- [The Economic Burden of Protectionism, Part V](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/big-government/the-economic-burden-of-protectionism-part-v/): Small businesses have little choice but to endure the pain.
- [Germany Needs Milei-ism but Is Getting Romney-ism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/germany-needs-milei-ism-but-is-getting-romney-ism/): Which way, German man?
- [Juan Perón: Not the Worst Leader of the 20th Century, but Very, Very Bad](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/juan-peron-not-the-worst-leader-of-the-20th-century-but-very-very-bad/): When Perón took office in 1946, Argentina was one of the world’s 10-richest nations.
- [The Case (and Need) for Spending Restraint in the United Kingdom](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-case-and-need-for-spending-restraint-in-the-united-kingdom/): This is long overdue.
- [Norway Is a Rich, Market-Oriented Country, but it’s Not a Role Model](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/norway-is-a-rich-market-oriented-country-but-its-not-a-role-model/): Should we be more like Norway?
- [Part V: Will California Commit Economic Suicide?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/part-v-will-california-commit-economic-suicide/): The California proposal is the camel’s nose under the tent.
- [Choose a Goal: Reducing Inequality or Boosting Prosperity](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/choose-a-goal-reducing-inequality-or-boosting-prosperity/): It's not a close call.
- [A Mid-Year Assessment of the Tepid Trump Economy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/a-mid-year-assessment-of-the-tepid-trump-economy/): The economy’s performance is anemic.
- [Elon Musk, USAID, and Preventable Deaths in Poor Nations](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/elon-musk-usaid-and-preventable-deaths-in-poor-nations/): The real villains are the bad and incompetent governments.
- [Class-Warfare Tax Backfires in Los Angeles, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/class-warfare-tax-backfires-in-los-angeles-part-ii/): Greedy politicians scored an own goal.
- [Spending Restraint Beats Tax Increases, Even According to the IMF](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/spending-restraint-beats-tax-increases-even-according-to-the-imf/): Research shows a clear winner between these approaches.
- [Poland, Japan, and Iran: A Story of Convergence and Divergence](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/poland-japan-and-iran-a-story-of-convergence-and-divergence/): Poor countries should grow faster than rich countries.
- [Trump’s Most Impressive Accomplishment?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/trumps-most-impressive-accomplishment/): Any chance this can last?
- [Nine Tweets Ripping Mamdani’s Economically Illiterate Expansion of Rent Control](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/nine-tweets-ripping-mamdanis-economically-illiterate-expansion-of-rent-control/): These posts expose the stupidity of rent control.
- [America’s Worst-Run City Is…](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/americas-worst-run-city-is/): Left-wing basket cases are well-represented.
- [Washington’s Leaky Buckets](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/washingtons-leaky-buckets/): Proof about the federal government’s waste and inefficiency.
- [Ohio Senator Bernie Moreno Wants Biggest Increase in Tax Rates in 94 Years](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/ohio-senator-bernie-moreno-wants-biggest-increase-in-tax-rates-in-94-years/): Even some Republicans are now advocating for class-warfare tax policy.
- [The United Kingdom and the 17th and 23rd Theorems of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/big-government/the-united-kingdom-and-the-17th-and-23rd-theorems-of-government/): Are UK voters hopelessly hooked on the heroin of government dependency?
- [Latin America Needs Milei, Not MAGA](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/latin-america-needs-milei-not-maga/): Rightists need to deliver economic reforms if they want to hold on to power.
- [The U.N.’s Proposal for Global Venezuelan-Style Economic Collapse](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-u-n-s-proposal-for-global-venezuelan-style-economic-collapse/): The UN proposal may be even worse than Piketty’s hare-brained scheme.
- [Economic Freedom Coming to Cuba?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/economic-freedom-coming-to-cuba/): Has Cuba hit rock bottom?
- [The Case for Capitalism, Part VIII](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-case-for-capitalism-part-viii/): The link between economic freedom and performance is clear.
- [A Nordic Nightmare for AOC](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/big-government/a-nordic-nightmare-for-aoc/): Scandinavians do better in America...
- [The Economic Burden of Protectionism, Part IV](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-economic-burden-of-protectionism-part-iv/): Trade taxes hit consumers hard.
- [Tax-Motivated International Migration, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/tax-motivated-international-migration-part-iii/): The world's most successful and productive citizens are fleeing greedy jurisdictions more than ever.
- [Watermelon Economics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/watermelon-economics/): Beware leftists who are green on the outside and red on the inside.
- [North Korea Is Not an “Economic Success Story”](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/north-korea-is-not-an-economic-success-story/): What we’re looking at is suffering rather than flourishing.
- [Social Security’s $78.3 Trillion Problem](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/social-securitys-78-3-trillion-problem/): It will reach trillion dollar deficits in just a few decades.
- [Federal Redistribution Programs Trap Poor People in Dependency, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/federal-redistribution-programs-trap-poor-people-in-dependency-part-ii/): Has expanding the welfare state helped the fight against poverty?
- [Pathetic Spin from the New York Times](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/pathetic-spin-from-the-new-york-times/): All three reporters deserve some sort of prize for lying to readers.
- [The All-Time Leftist Hypocrisy Award?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-all-time-leftist-hypocrisy-award/): Will this example of hypocrisy forever top the list?
- [Trump’s Energy Socialism, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/big-government/trumps-energy-socialism-part-ii/): Once again, Trump is giving taxpayer money to his cronies in the energy industry.
- [A State Suicide Pact, Part IV](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/a-state-suicide-pact-part-iv/): The push for class-warfare tax increases seems overwhelmingly driven by spite and envy.
- [China’s Self-Sabotaging Industrial Policy and Lessons for America](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/chinas-self-sabotaging-industrial-policy-and-lessons-for-america/): Government interference inhibits productivity growth.
- [Red States vs. Blue States, Part VII](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/red-states-vs-blue-states-part-vii/): Some states are growing while others languish.
- [Political Philosophy and Government Corruption](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/big-government/political-philosophy-and-government-corruption/): Are some ideologies more prone to corruption?
- [Do Small Governments Mean a “Failed State”?!?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/do-small-governments-mean-a-failed-state/): Would cutting taxes jeopardize the country?
- [Absurdity Alert: Writing About Germany’s Economic Decline Without Mentioning Green Energy Policies](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/absurdity-alert-writing-about-germanys-economic-decline-without-mentioning-green-energy-policies/): German energy prices are key to the story.
- [Don’t Exaggerate China’s Economy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/dont-exaggerate-chinas-economy/): China needs further reform.
- [Red States vs. Blue States, Part VI](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/red-states-vs-blue-states-part-vi/): States with market-friendly policies outperform states with the opposite approach.
- [State Tax Divergence, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/state-tax-divergence-part-ii/): Politicians in some states have decided that punishing successful taxpayers is good politics while others are slashing rates.
- [More Evidence for Corporate Tax Reform](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/more-evidence-for-corporate-tax-reform/): What happens when you fix all the problems with business taxation?
- [Part IV: Will California Commit Economic Suicide?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/part-iv-will-california-commit-economic-suicide/): Wealth tax advocates are not being honest.
- [Is Medicaid a Fiscal Problem, a Federalism Problem, a Policy Problem, or a Fraud Problem?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/is-medicaid-a-fiscal-problem-a-federalism-problem-a-policy-problem-or-a-fraud-problem/): It's not always how much is being spent, but how it is being spent.
- [Corporate Taxes and the Laffer Curve: Leftist Theory vs. the Real World](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/corporate-taxes-and-the-laffer-curve-leftist-theory-vs-the-real-world/): An absurd CRS report defies global evidence.
- [The Case Against Socialism, Part V](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-case-against-socialism-part-v/): Real world comparisons continue to show the obvious: capitalism performs much better than socialism.
- [Are Living Standards Higher in France or Mississippi?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/are-living-standards-higher-in-france-or-mississippi/): How does America's poorest state compare?
- [The High Cost of “Free” Health Care](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-high-cost-of-free-health-care/): California is once again debating a massive expansion of the welfare state via single-payer healthcare.
- [Economic Freedom, GDP, and Happiness](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/economic-freedom-gdp-and-happiness/): People are more likely to feel good when they have more consumption.
- [Should the United Nations Have Global Taxing Powers?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/should-the-united-nations-have-global-taxing-powers/): The worst of the worst is when unaccountable and undemocratic international bureaucracies want to grab more of our money.
- [Trade Taxes and the Laffer Curve](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/trade-taxes-and-the-laffer-curve/): What does research tell us about the curve for trade taxes?
- [The (Amusingly) Destructive Economics of Wealth Taxation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-amusingly-destructive-economics-of-wealth-taxation/): A wealth tax would diminish incentives to save and invest.
- [The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Sweden, Part IV](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-sweden-part-iv/): Some folks in the media are finally catching on to Sweden’s transition.
- [Iceland’s Superb Private Retirement System](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/icelands-superb-private-retirement-system/): Iceland has a remarkable system of personal retirement accounts.
- [Absurd Cost Overruns Are a Bipartisan Problem](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/absurd-cost-overruns-are-a-bipartisan-problem/): Donald Trump is also guilty of promising low-cost initiatives that turn into expensive boondoggles.
- [What China and Brazil Teach Us About Inequality](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/what-china-and-brazil-teach-us-about-inequality/): Is Brazil doing something right while China is doing something wrong?
- [The Need for Tax Reform and Reduction in Argentina](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-need-for-tax-reform-and-reduction-in-argentina/): Political obstacles to better tax policy remain in Argentina.
- [OECD Urges Bigger Burden of Government in Romania](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/oecd-urges-bigger-burden-of-government-in-romania/): Instead of advising Romanian politicians to reverse recent spending increases, the OECD’s bureaucrats are pushing for higher taxes to enable that bigger burden of spending.
- [Malta: A Free-Market Success Story](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/malta-a-free-market-success-story/): Malta’s rather-successful economy is growing faster than the United States.
- [Remembering Ed Crane](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/opinion-and-commentary/remembering-ed-crane/): This article appeared at FEE.
- [Europe’s War on Wealth](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/europes-war-on-wealth/): The European Commission crafted an instruction manual for economic destruction.
- [The Costly Impact of French Statism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-costly-impact-of-french-statism/): France is one of the world’s most-unfree nations when looking at fiscal policy.
- [Shame on You, Good Riddance, or Please Come Back](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/shame-on-you-good-riddance-or-please-come-back/): How our friends on the left react to tax-motivated migration.
- [A Key Difference Between Trump and Milei](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/a-key-difference-between-trump-and-milei/): Their difference on spending lead to dramatically different outcomes when looking at the symptom of government debt.
- [The United States vs. Europe, Part V](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-united-states-vs-europe-part-v/): Should the United States be copying the economic policy of nations that have much lower living standards?
- [A State Suicide Pact, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/a-state-suicide-pact-part-iii/): Taxes based on envy, hate, and resentment are spreading.
- [Fiscal Policy and School Choice](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/fiscal-policy-and-school-choice/): Why school choice is smart fiscal policy
- [Part III: Will California Commit Economic Suicide?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/part-iii-will-california-commit-economic-suicide/): This policy would be an utter failure if approved by voters.
- [Trade Deficit Illiteracy, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/trade-deficit-illiteracy-part-iii/): The data shows that trade deficits have no negative relationship with wealth.
- [Part VI: Yes, Taxes Change Behavior](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/part-vi-yes-taxes-change-behavior/): Are greedy politicians in New York about to make a critical mistake?
- [Blame Washington for the Great Depression, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/blame-washington-for-the-great-depression-part-iii/): Most everything Roosevelt did was wrong.
- [State Tax Divergence](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/state-tax-divergence/): Something remarkable has been happening with state tax policy.
- [Republican Socialism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/republican-socialism/): Trump’s socialism is setting a terrible precedent.
- [When Does Paternalism Become Totalitarianism?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/big-government/when-does-paternalism-become-totalitarianism/): The U.K. has passed paternalism and is trending in a very troubling direction.
- [Eight Charts to Understand the Federal Budget Mess](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/big-government/eight-charts-to-understand-the-federal-budget-mess/): Reviewing these charts will make you more knowledgeable than 99.7 percent of the population.
- [Mandatory Economics Classes for College Kids?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/mandatory-economics-classes-for-college-kids/): Students are deeply misinformed. Will this help?
- [The Costly Impact of Perónism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-costly-impact-of-peronism/): There was a massive change after Perón become president.
- [The Moral of Cuba's Economic Story](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-moral-of-cubas-economic-story/): Even mediocre economic policy is better than terrible economic policy.
- [New Hampshire vs. Vermont](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/new-hampshire-vs-vermont/): These two states, which are very similar in most respects, have very different fiscal systems.
- [Debunking Elizabeth Warren's Corporate Tax Demagoguery](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/debunking-elizabeth-warrens-corporate-tax-demagoguery/): A Washington Post editorial schooled her on the tax code.
- [Good Riddance, Viktor Orbán](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/good-riddance-viktor-orban/): Hungary's backward status is not just because it was repressed for decades by Soviet socialism.
- [Red Tape and Unintended Consequences, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/red-tape-and-unintended-consequences-part-ii/): More fallout from the regulatory obstacle course.
- [Homeowners Need Relief From Oppressive Capital Gains Taxes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/opinion-and-commentary/homeowners-need-relief-from-oppressive-capital-gains-taxes/): This article appeared at American Thinker.
- [Measuring the Impact of Milei-ism in Argentina](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/measuring-the-impact-of-milei-ism-in-argentina/): Argentina has made a jump.
- [The Best and the Worst in the Hayek Socialism Index](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-best-and-the-worst-in-the-hayek-socialism-index/): What happens when small micro-states are included in the rankings?
- [Trump Delivering a Quality-of-Life Improvement](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/trump-delivering-a-quality-of-life-improvement/): Cutting red tape has been his best issue.
- [Blue-State Spending Binge](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/big-government/blue-state-spending-binge/): Grim data from these states.
- [Why “Gini Coefficients” Are Meaningless](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/why-gini-coefficients-are-meaningless/): Two reasons to stop caring about this.
- [Trump’s Head-in-the-Sand Approach to America’s Looming Entitlement Crisis](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/big-government/trumps-head-in-the-sand-approach-to-americas-looming-entitlement-crisis/): Entitlement spending is on an unsustainable upward trajectory.
- [The Simple Explanation for How China Went from Starvation-Level Poverty to Middle-Income Status](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-simple-explanation-for-how-china-went-from-starvation-level-poverty-to-middle-income-status/): And why its future looks less promising.
- [The Laffer Curve and Limits to Class Warfare Tax Policy, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-laffer-curve-and-limits-to-class-warfare-tax-policy-part-ii/): New research looks at revenue-maximizing top tax rates.
- [The One-Year Anniversary of Protectionist Failure](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-one-year-anniversary-of-protectionist-failure/): Why did Trump subject the economy to all this damage and uncertainty?
- [Milei Is Winning the War Against Poverty](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/milei-is-winning-the-war-against-poverty/): His libertarian agenda has been great news for poor people
- [Pope Leo Needs to Read Robert Lucas](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/pope-leo-needs-to-read-robert-lucas/): Free enterprise is the best approach for poverty reduction.
- [Tax-Motivated Domestic Migration, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/tax-motivated-domestic-migration-part-iii/): High-tax states pillage their residents and still don’t do a good job of delivering basic services.
- [Tax-Motivated Domestic Migration, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/tax-motivated-domestic-migration-part-ii/): How people are voting with their feet.
- [Rich Leftists in New York City Should Put Up or Shut Up](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/rich-leftists-in-new-york-city-should-put-up-or-shut-up/): Rich leftists can ease their feelings of guilt without burdening everyone else.
- [Red Tape, Part II: The Economic Burden of Regulation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/red-tape-part-ii-the-economic-burden-of-regulation/): The impact of deregulation is unambiguously good news.
- [Wealth Is Not a Fixed Pie](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/wealth-is-not-a-fixed-pie/): The zero-sum notion is laughably wrong.
- [Defining Socialism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/big-government/defining-socialism/): There are very few examples of real socialism in the world today.
- [The Tax-Driven Decline of Massachusetts](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-tax-driven-decline-of-massachusetts/): The state that is suffering a big decline.
- [Privatize the TSA](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/privatize-the-tsa/): This is not a risky and untested idea.
- [Javier Milei Week, Part VII: What Is the Left Saying?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/javier-milei-week-part-vii-what-is-the-left-saying/): Those 108 lefty economists have been very quiet.
- [Javier Milei Week, Part VI: Continuing Challenges](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/javier-milei-week-part-vi-continuing-challenges/): Despite the progress, Argentina is still not in great shape.
- [Javier Milei Week, Part V: Fixing Argentina’s Monetary Crisis](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/javier-milei-week-part-v-fixing-argentinas-monetary-crisis/): Why did Argentina have such high inflation.
- [Javier Milei Week, Part IV: Argentina’s Pre-2023 Descent into Protectionism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/javier-milei-week-part-iv-argentinas-pre-2023-descent-into-protectionism/): The history of trade in Argentina is filled with protectionism.
- [Javier Milei Week, Part III: Good Economic Policies, Good Economic Results](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/javier-milei-week-part-iii-good-economic-policies-good-economic-results/): Milei’s team is taking a chainsaw to red tape.
- [Javier Milei Week, Part II: Good Fiscal Policies, Good Fiscal Results](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/javier-milei-week-part-ii-good-fiscal-policies-good-fiscal-results/): The progress over the past couple of years is clear to see.
- [Javier Milei Week, Part I: Inheriting an Economic Crisis](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/javier-milei-week-part-i-inheriting-an-economic-crisis/): Argentina was in a deep hole.
- [How Government Caused the 2008 Crisis, Part II: A Three-Video Primer](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/how-government-caused-the-2008-crisis-part-ii-a-three-video-primer/): These two government-created entities deserve a lot of blame for the crisis.
- [International Tech’s Tug of War](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/opinion-and-commentary/international-techs-tug-of-war/): This article appeared at FEE.
- [Depressing Poll Proves Thatcher Was Right](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/depressing-poll-shows-thatcher-was-right/): Many folks on the left are utterly consumed by envy and resentment of success.
- [Fleecing Rich Taxpayers: Europe vs. the United States](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/fleecing-rich-taxpayers-europe-vs-the-united-states/): Are they equally bad?
- [Don’t Copy Europe](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/dont-copy-europe/): Americans have significantly higher living standards than major European countries.
- [Celebrating 250 Years of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/celebrating-250-years-of-adam-smiths-wealth-of-nations/): The Wealth of Nations is about much more than just the invisible hand.
- [Quantifying Argentina’s Improvement Under Javier Milei](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/quantifying-argentinas-improvement-under-javier-milei/): Javier Milei said he wants to turn Argentina into the world’s freest economy. How close is he?
- [Cost Overruns Are Bad for Taxpayers, Good for Insiders](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/cost-overruns-are-bad-for-taxpayers-good-for-insiders/): There’s little if any incentive to fix this problem.
- [Washington State’s Fiscal Suicide: Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/washington-states-fiscal-suicide-part-ii/): State politicians are poised to saddle the state with an income tax.
- [The “Washington Monument Syndrome” in the State of Washington](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-washington-monument-syndrome-in-the-state-of-washington/): Politicians and pro-spending lobbies use deceitful tactics to push for bigger government.
- [The Nightmare Scenario Leading to a Wealth Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-nightmare-scenario-leading-to-a-wealth-tax/): This is realistic enough that we should worry.
- [Sports and Supply-Side Economics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/sports-and-supply-side-economics/): Taxes made this free agency decision easy.
- [Will Denmark and/or the Netherlands Copy Norway’s Failed Wealth Tax?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/will-denmark-and-or-the-netherlands-copy-norways-failed-wealth-tax/): This is baffling. Is failure contagious?
- [Seattle Politicians vs. Frederic Bastiat](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/seattle-politicians-vs-frederic-bastiat/): Another law backfires due to the "unseen."
- [Trump Announces New Tariffs that are Also Probably Illegal](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/trump-announces-new-tariffs-that-are-also-probably-illegal/): Trump's own legal team rejected the authority he now claims.
- [OECD Pushes Statist Policies on Statist Mexico](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/oecd-pushes-statist-policies-on-statist-mexico/): OECD bureaucrats are once again recommending higher taxes and bigger government.
- [How California's Bureaucratic Snakes Harassed a Businessman](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/how-californias-bureaucratic-snakes-harassed-a-businessman/): More evidence that California is suffering from over-criminalization.
- [Time to Privatize Airport Security](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/time-to-privatize-airport-security/): Why is the United States using a more expensive and inefficient approach?
- [Trump and the G-7: Right Outcome, Wrong Reason](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/trump-and-the-g-7-right-outcome-wrong-reason/): G-7 statements are always full of nonsense.
- [Is There a Political Downside to Tax Migration?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/is-there-a-political-downside-to-tax-migration/): Do migrants bring their bad policies with them?
- [Three Cheers for (a Flawed) SCOTUS](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/big-government/three-cheers-for-a-flawed-scotus/): There's only one semi-functional branch left.
- [Supreme (Semi-) Disappointment](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/supreme-semi-disappointment/): Principled jurisprudence or empty politics?
- [The Economic Burden of Protectionism, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-economic-burden-of-protectionism-part-iii/): More evidence that protectionism causes considerable damage.
- [How Can Government Get Best Bang for Public’s Buck?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/opinion-and-commentary/how-can-government-get-best-bang-for-publics-buck/): This article appeared on CNSNews.com.
- [In a Display of Moral Blindness, President of European Commission Celebrates Marxist Totalitarianism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/in-a-display-of-moral-blindness-president-of-european-commission-celebrates-marxist-totalitarianism/): How disgusting.
- [New York City and the 20th Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/new-york-city-and-the-20th-theorem-of-government/): New York City has a spending problem.
- [CF&P Joins Coalition Against Trump Tariffs](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/cfp-joins-coalition-against-trump-tariffs/): It's just a form of crony capitalism.
- [No Internet Sales Tax...For Now](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/no-internet-sales-tax-for-now/): This bad idea will be back.
- [Argentina, Trump, and Perón](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/big-government/argentina-trump-and-peron/): Just say no to Perónism.
- [Economic Policy Matters: The Example of Botswana vs. South Africa vs. Zimbabwe](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/economic-policy-matters-the-example-of-botswana-vs-south-africa-vs-zimbabwe/): Good policy is producing vastly superior results in Botswana.
- [Democrats Should Put Kids Before Bureaucrats, Part I](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/democrats-should-put-kids-before-bureaucrats-part-i/): Those who benefit from the status quo are very opposed to school choice.
- [Preferential Trade Treatment May Be Holding India Back](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/opinion-and-commentary/preferential-trade-treatment-may-be-holding-india-back/): This article appeared on Townhall.com.
- [Reducing Solyndra-Style Green Cronyism Is another Reason to Be Excited about Tax Reform](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/reducing-solyndra-style-green-cronyism-is-another-reason-to-be-excited-about-tax-reform/): It curtails some distortions that line the pocket of green energy companies.
- [The Economic Burden of Protectionism, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-economic-burden-of-protectionism-part-ii/): New research on who paid Trump's tariffs.
- [Any Hope for a European Economic Renaissance?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/any-hope-for-a-european-economic-renaissance/): Can Europe's downward trajectory be changed fast enough?
- [America’s Future Inflation Crisis?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/americas-future-inflation-crisis/): There are no good ways to pay for the rising burden of government.
- [The Economic Burden of Protectionism, Part I](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-economic-burden-of-protectionism-part-i/): How has Trump's second term protectionism fared?
- [Milei's Labor Market Liberalization Would Be An Enormous Achievement](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/mileis-labor-market-liberalization-would-be-an-enormous-achievement/): Argentina needs free and competitive markets for labor.
- [It’s (Still) Simple to Balance the Budget](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/its-still-simple-to-balance-the-budget/): We still only need to limit spending.
- [Sending Drug Questions Back to the States](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/opinion-and-commentary/sending-drug-questions-back-to-the-states/): This article appeared in The Washington Times.
- [Ranking Nations for Economic and Personal Liberty](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/ranking-nations-for-economic-and-personal-liberty/): Mild good news for the US.
- [The United States Is a Tax Haven for Global Investors…and that’s Good for America](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/the-united-states-is-a-tax-haven-for-global-investorsand-thats-good-for-america/): The U.S. is hypocritical, though.
- [From the British Isles, Great Moments in Foreign Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/big-government/from-the-british-isles-great-moments-in-foreign-government/): Statism across the pond.
- [Bureaucrats Behaving Badly](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/big-government/bureaucrats-behaving-badly/): Bureaucrats face perverse incentives.
- [The Environmentalist Lobby Attacks Green Tea](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/opinion-and-commentary/the-environmentalist-lobby-attacks-green-tea/): This article appeared on Townhall.com.
- [Setting the Record Straight: NDAA Section 1615 Opposition Is No Vendetta Against SpaceX](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/setting-the-record-straight-ndaa-section-1615-opposition-is-no-vendetta-against-spacex/): This article appeared on Townhall.com.
- [Part II: Will California Commit Economic Suicide?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/part-ii-will-california-commit-economic-suicide/): The geese that lay the golden eggs are flying away.
- [The Rise and Fall (and Rise) of Sweden, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-sweden-part-iii/): Sweden is recovering from the slow-growth era of democratic socialism.
- [A Big Corporate Tax Cut in the United States Will Bring More Prosperity to China and Europe](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/a-big-corporate-tax-cut-in-the-united-states-will-bring-more-prosperity-to-china-and-europe/): Tax competition will force other nations to respond.
- [Six Months and 28 Examples of Venezuelan Horror](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/big-government/six-months-and-28-examples-of-venezuelan-horror/): Many more examples documenting Venezuela's misery.
- [The (Tax) Nightmare Before Christmas](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/the-tax-nightmare-before-christmas/): New taxes won't relieve income tax pressure.
- [100 Years of Communism, 100 Million Deaths, and the Lingering Horror of North Korea](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/100-years-of-communism-100-million-deaths-and-the-lingering-horror-of-north-korea/): The purest remaining form of communism.
- [As Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Are About to Learn, America’s Worldwide Tax Regime Is a Royal Pain](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/as-prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-are-about-to-learn-americas-worldwide-tax-regime-is-a-royal-pain/): What could the royal family do to avoid the greedy and intrusive IRS?
- [The Goal of Business Tax Reform Should Be Enhanced Competitiveness, Not More Loot for Politicians](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/the-goal-of-business-tax-reform-should-be-enhanced-competitiveness-not-more-loot-for-politicians/): Why can't the GOP just do the right thing?
- [Ranking Presidents on Economic Policy: The Awful Record of Richard Nixon](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/big-government/ranking-presidents-on-economic-policy-the-awful-record-of-richard-nixon/): An assessment of economic policy under one of America’s worst presidents.
- [Ranking Presidents on Economic Policy: The Impressive Record of Ronald Reagan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/uncategorized/ranking-presidents-on-economic-policy-the-impressive-record-of-ronald-reagan/): Reagan was a net plus for economic liberty.
- [Super Bowl, Super Taxes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/super-bowl-super-taxes/): It's outrageous when California politicians benefit more than players.
- [The New Prime Minister of New Zealand: Vacuous, Sinister, Dishonest, or Clueless?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/the-new-prime-minister-of-new-zealand-vacuous-sinister-dishonest-or-clueless/): A profound ignorance of world history is on display.
- [Taxpayers Are Getting Drowned by Government-Subsidized Flood Insurance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/taxpayers-are-getting-drowned-by-government-subsidized-flood-insurance/): Perverse incentives encourage risky development.
- [President Trump Can Help Get Puerto Rico Back On Track](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/president-trump-can-help-get-puerto-rico-back-on-track/): This article appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [France, Yachts, and the Real Victims of Class-Warfare Taxation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/france-yachts-and-the-real-victims-of-class-warfare-taxation/): An important lesson about tax policy.
- [Right, Left, Facts, and Values](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/right-left-facts-and-values/): This Harvard Professor still doesn't understand his opponents.
- [Some Uplifting News about Race in America](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/some-uplifting-news-about-race-in-america/): Let’s hope this progress continues.
- [The Much-Deserved End of Obama’s Operation Choke Point](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/the-much-deserved-end-of-obamas-operation-choke-point/): A reprehensible violation of the rule of law comes to a close.
- [Can President Macron Save France?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/big-government/can-president-macron-save-france/): Do French voters have buyer’s remorse?
- [Federal Redistribution Programs Trap Poor People in Dependency](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/federal-redistribution-programs-trap-poor-people-in-dependency/): Progress ground to a halt thanks to the so-called War on Poverty.
- [FCC Should Empower Private Sector to Bring Broadband to Rural America](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/fcc-should-empower-private-sector-to-bring-broadband-to-rural-america/): This article appeared on Townhall.
- [Because Protecting the Environment Is Important, Capitalism Should Play a Bigger Role](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/because-protecting-the-environment-is-important-capitalism-should-play-a-bigger-role/): Sustainable environmental outcomes rarely come from government.
- [NDAA WATCH: Can Space Flight Rise Above Parochial Politics?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/ndaa-watch-can-space-flight-rise-above-parochial-politics/): This article appeared on Townhall.
- [Why Reagan's Spending Legacy is Worth Celebrating](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/why-reagans-spending-legacy-is-worth-celebrating/): The gap between what Reagan achieved and what happened under every other modern president is enormous.
- [Even by Keynesian Standards, Cash-for-Clunkers Was a Clunker](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/even-by-keynesian-standards-cash-for-clunkers-was-a-clunker/): Keynesians put the cart before the horse.
- [Winning Converts for Supply-Side Economics and the Laffer Curve, One City at a Time](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/winning-converts-for-supply-side-economics-and-the-laffer-curve-one-city-at-a-time/): Chicago politicians stumble onto an economic truth.
- [Congressional Coalition Weighs in for TV White Spaces to Bring Rural Broadband](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/congressional-coalition-weighs-in-for-tv-white-spaces-to-bring-rural-broadband/): A rare show of bipartisanship from today's Congress.
- [Hearing Aid Provision Could Slow Crucial FDA Bill](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/hearing-aid-provision-could-slow-crucial-fda-bill/): This article appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [Name-Calling Contest Between Libertarians and Leftists: Autistic Dorks vs. Ugly Weaklings](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/name-calling-contest-between-libertarians-and-leftists-autistic-dorks-vs-ugly-weaklings/): Libertarians can be a bit dorky.
- [Are there Innate Differences between Right and Left (and Where Do Libertarians Fit)?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/blog/are-there-innate-differences-between-right-and-left-and-where-do-libertarians-fit/): What does the research show?
- [Debunking Spain’s Prime Minister](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/debunking-spains-prime-minister/): These are the results he thinks are good?
- [Red Ink, Washington Politics, and the Trump Tax Cuts](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/red-ink-washington-politics-and-the-trump-tax-cuts/): Until something changes, the Trump’s tax cut is not very realistic.
- [What We Can Learn From Maryland's Work on Opioid Abuse](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/what-we-can-learn-from-marylands-work-on-opioid-abuse/): This article appeared in the Herald-Mail.
- [The Time Bomb Lurking in the Trump Tax Cuts](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/opinion-and-commentary/the-time-bomb-lurking-in-the-trump-tax-cuts/): This article appeared at The American Spectator.
- [The Economic Reward from Abolishing State Income Taxes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-economic-reward-from-abolishing-state-income-taxes/): A growing list of states are seeing these benefits.
- [Debunking Trump’s Error-Filled WSJ Column](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/debunking-trumps-error-filled-wsj-column/): Is Trump trying to show that he is more economically illiterate than Joe Biden?
- [Trump Hasn’t Killed Globalisation. He’s Killing the US Economy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/opinion-and-commentary/trump-hasnt-killed-globalisation-hes-killing-the-us-economy/): This article appeared in The Telegraph.
- [The Poor are Becoming More Reliant on the State](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-poor-are-getting-more-reliant-on-the-state/): The goal should be self-sufficiency.
- [Why US Steel Production Surpassing Japan is Not Worth Celebrating](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/why-us-steel-surpassing-japan-is-not-worth-celebrating/): It turns out this "achievement" was no so impressive.
- [More U.N. Lies, this Time about Argentina](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/more-u-n-lies-this-time-about-argentina/): The United Nations should be celebrating Milei’s accomplishments!
- [Más Mentiras de la ONU, Esta Vez Sobre Argentina](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/latin-american-liberty/mas-mentiras-de-la-onu-esta-vez-sobre-argentina/): ¡Las Naciones Unidas deberían celebrar los logros de Milei!
- [The Milei Miracle, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-milei-miracle-part-iii/): Taking a moment to appreciate what he’s already achieved.
- [The Milei Miracle, Part IV](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-milei-miracle-part-iv/): Free-market reforms have delivered.
- [El Milagro Milei, Parte IV](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/latin-american-liberty/the-milei-miracle-part-iv-2/): Es posible que Milei logre su objetivo de convertir a Argentina en la economía más libre del mundo.
- [Part I(b): Yes, Taxes Change Behavior](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/part-ib-yes-taxes-change-behavior/): This housing problem can and should be fixed.
- [Exciting New Research on the Laffer Curve](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/exciting-new-research-on-the-laffer-curve/): The important tradeoff is between tax rates and growth.
- [El Milagro Milei, Parte III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/latin-american-liberty/el-milagro-milei-parte-iii/): Apreciar lo que Milei ya ha logrado.
- [France’s Welfare State Victimizes Middle-Class Citizens](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/frances-welfare-state-victimizes-middle-class-citizens/): They get less income and they have to pay more tax.
- [The Milei Miracle](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-milei-miracle/): Milei’s reforms are generating great results, but that is exactly what libertarians and small-government conservatives said would happen.
- [The Milei Miracle, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-milei-miracle-part-ii/): More evidence of Argentina’s remarkable renaissance.
- [El Milagro Milei, Parte II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/latin-american-liberty/el-milagro-milei-parte-ii/): Es muy raro ver un cambio tan claro y evidente en las políticas públicas.
- [Institutional Decline and Political Entropy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/institutional-decline-and-political-entropy/): Disorder threatens us socially and politically.
- [The Swamp Is Prospering Under Trump](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/big-government/the-swamp-is-prospering-under-trump/): Nobody should be surprised that lobbyists are making out like bandits.
- [Russia's Ties to U.S. Environmentalist Groups](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/publications/russias-ties-to-u-s-environmentalist-groups/): This Investigation looks into Russian meddling in U.S. energy policy.
- [The Abuse of Economic Sanctions is Undermining the Use of Financial Suasion](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/publications/the-abuse-of-economic-sanctions-is-undermining-the-use-of-financial-suasion/): The widespread use of economic sanctions constitutes one of the paradoxes of contemporary American foreign policy.
- [Can Europe’s Downward Trajectory Be Reversed?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/can-europes-downward-trajectory-be-reversed/): Will opposition to Trump lead Europe to adopt more economic freedom?
- [The World’s Best Leader, Part I](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-worlds-best-leader-part-i/): No leader has delivered such good results in such a short period.
- [El Milagro Milei, Parte I](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/latin-american-liberty/el-milagro-milei-parte-i/): Es lo que muchos dijeron que pasaría.
- [Approve the First Transcontinental Railroad for Freight](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/opinion-and-commentary/approve-the-first-transcontinental-railroad-for-freight/): This article appeared at American Thinker.
- [A French 'Supertax' and the World's Least Surprising Headline](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/french-supertax-leads-to-the-worlds-least-surprising-headline/): Class-warfare taxes are better at causing economic damage than generating revenue.
- [La Tragedia Continua del Socialismo Cubano, Parte I](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/latin-american-liberty/la-tragedia-continua-del-socialismo-cubano-parte-i/): El socialismo, no el embargo, ha devastado a Cuba.
- [La tragedia Continua del Socialismo Cubano, Parte II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/latin-american-liberty/la-tragedia-continua-del-socialismo-cubano-parte-ii/): ¿Un éxodo aún mayor que el de Venezuela?
- [Washington State’s Fiscal Suicide](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/washington-states-fiscal-suicide/): State lawmakers seem intent on ensuring that Washington has the worst tax system.
- [Grading Trump’s First Year](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/grading-trumps-first-year/): How has Trump fared in these 5 economic focused classes?
- [Part II: Oxfam Is a Leftist Joke, Not a Real Charity](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/part-ii-oxfam-is-a-leftist-joke-not-a-real-charity/): Oxfam has been captured by activists who peddle class warfare.
- [The Economic Effects of Wealth Taxes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/publications/the-economic-effects-of-wealth-taxes/): Estimating the economic effects of the wealth tax proposed by Senator Warren using a computable general equilibrium model of the U.S. economy
- [The Economic Effects Of Proposed Changes to the Tax Treatment of Capital Gains](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/publications/the-economic-effects-of-proposed-changes-to-the-tax-treatment-of-capital-gains/): Examine how rising inflation would exacerbate the economic effects of enacting a proposal by the Biden Administration and various legislators to tax long term capital gains at ordinary income tax rates.
- [The International Criminal Court:  A Case of Politics Over Substance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/publications/international-criminal-court-politics-over-substance/): This White Paper argues that the ICC is fatally flawed in both theory and execution.
- [Making Sense of BEPS: The Latest OECD Assault on  Tax Competition](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/publications/making-sense-of-beps/): This White Paper finds BEPS a continuation of the OECD's war on tax competition, and a threat to taxpayer privacy and the global economy.
- [Stumbling Toward Peace in South Sudan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/publications/stumbling-toward-peace-in-south-sudan/): This White Paper critiques the ongoing peace process in South Sudan.
- [Aftermarket Shock: The High Cost of Auto Parts Protectionism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/publications/aftermarket-shock-the-high-cost-of-auto-parts-protectionism/): This White Paper looks at the abuse of patent protections to unfairly shield auto manufacturers from competition.
- [Political and Economic Risks of a Destination-Based Cash Flow Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/publications/political-and-economic-risks-of-a-destination-based-cash-flow-tax/): The Policy Brief considers the political and economic outcomes of the border-adjustable corporate tax proposed in the Ryan-Brady blueprint.
- [The Renewable Fuel Standard and Its Challenges](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/publications/the-renewable-fuel-standard-and-its-challenges/): The Policy Brief reviews the origins of and challenges associated with the Renewable Fuel Standard.
- [Federalism Is Good Policy and Good Politics, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/federalism-is-good-policy-and-good-politics-part-ii/): How decentralization will make the United States better.
- [Trump’s Trade Taxes Are Hurting American Manufacturing](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/trumps-trade-taxes-are-hurting-american-manufacturing/): Workers ultimately bear a big chunk of the burden.
- [The Big Government War on Airline Competition](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/opinion-and-commentary/the-big-government-war-on-airline-competition/): This article appeared at The Daily Economy.
- [Testimony to House Ways and Means Committee on Border Adjustments and Tax Reform](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/testimony-and-speeches/testimony-to-house-ways-and-means-committee-on-border-adjustments-and-tax-reform/): To the House Committee on Ways and Means hearing on “Increasing U.S. Competitiveness and Preventing American Jobs from Moving Overseas”
- [Brian Garst Statement Delivered at Public Hearing for Section 232 National Security Investigation of Imports of Automobiles and Automobile Parts](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/testimony-and-speeches/brian-garst-statement-delivered-at-public-hearing-for-section-232-national-security-investigation-of-imports-of-automobiles-and-automobile-parts/): Testimony on use of national security rationale to impose protectionism.
- [Enriching Hospitals at Taxpayer Expense](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/opinion-and-commentary/enriching-hospitals-at-taxpayer-expense/): This article appeared at American Thinker.
- [Bipartisan Bad Economics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/opinion-and-commentary/bipartisan-bad-economics/): This article appeared at FEE.
- [The World’s Biggest Economic Problem](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-worlds-biggest-economic-problem/): What happens when every population pyramid becomes a cylinder?
- [Friedman vs Stiglitz: Estonia and Poland vs. Argentina and Venezuela](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/friedman-vs-stiglitz-estonia-and-poland-vs-argentina-and-venezuela/): Stiglitz-style policies have failed.
- [The OECD’s Preposterous Fiscal Advice for Mexico](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/latin-american-liberty/the-oecds-preposterous-fiscal-advice-for-mexico/): La OCDE quiere un aumento fiscal enorme para la población relativamente empobrecida de México.
- [Chile vs Venezuela](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/latin-american-liberty/chile-vs-venezuela-2/): Evaluación de un experimento natural en mercados libres frente al socialismo.
- [La Imprudente Trayectoria Fiscal de Brasil](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/latin-american-liberty/la-imprudente-trayectoria-fiscal-de-brasil/): Esto no es precisamente una receta para la prosperidad futura.
- [Reducción del Tamaño del Estado en Argentina](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/latin-american-liberty/reduccion-del-tamano-del-estado-en-argentina/): Lo que hace especial a Milei es cómo respondió a la pésima situación que heredó.
- [Culpa al Estatismo Por el Estancamiento Económico de México](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/latin-american-liberty/culpa-al-estatismo-por-el-estancamiento-economico-de-mexico/): México está atrapado en la «trampa del ingreso medio». ¿Podrá liberarse?
- [Blame Statism for Mexico’s Economic Stagnation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/big-government/blame-statism-for-mexicos-economic-stagnation/): Mexico is caught in the “middle-income trap.” Can it break free?
- [The Geese with the Golden Eggs Are Escaping California](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-geese-with-the-golden-eggs-are-escaping-california/): There’s apparently been a significant exodus of successful people from California.
- [Panama Conference to Address Global Tax Concerns](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/blog/panama-conference-to-address-global-tax-concerns/): Dan Mitchell, Andrew Quinlan to speak as low-tax jurisdictions respond to international assault.
- [CF&P Welcomes Today's Congressional Hearings to Scrutinize BEPS](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/news/press-releases/cfp-welcomes-todays-congressional-hearings-to-scrutinize-beps/): CF&P President Quinlan with a statement on today's BEPS hearings.
- [Why Is the Obama Administration Allowing an International Bureaucracy to Push Tax Policies that Will Make America Companies Less Competitive?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/blog/why-is-the-obama-administration-allowing-an-international-bureaucracy-to-push-tax-policies-that-will-make-america-companies-less-competitive/): I’m happy that BEPS is finally getting some hostile attention, but I wonder why it took so long.
- [Washington Prepares to Trample Local Gaming Rules](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/opinion-and-commentary/washington-prepares-to-trample-local-gaming-rules/): This article appeared on The Hill.
- [Congress Should Protect Small Business From IRS Overreach](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/opinion-and-commentary/congress-should-protect-small-business-from-irs-overreach/): This article originally appeared on The Hill's Congress Blog.
- [Politicians Keep Chasing the Green Jobs Fantasy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/opinion-and-commentary/politicians-keep-chasing-the-green-jobs-fantasy/): This article appeared on The Blaze.
- [No State Safe From Washington’s Gambling Rules](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/opinion-and-commentary/no-state-safe-from-washingtons-gambling-rules/): This article appeared on Inside Sources.
- [Failure of Chinese Corruption Crackdown Will Impact U.S. Economy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/opinion-and-commentary/failure-of-chinese-corruption-crackdown-will-impact-u-s-economy/): This article appeared on The Blaze.
- [A New Social Engineering Mission Won’t Save Postal Service](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/opinion-and-commentary/a-new-social-engineering-mission-wont-save-postal-service/): This article appeared on Inside Sources.
- [Congress Must Defend US Interests on Global Tax Issues](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/opinion-and-commentary/congress-must-defend-us-interests-on-global-tax-issues/): This article originally appeared on The Hill’s Congress Blog.
- [BEPS Pivotal in Fight Over Tax Competition](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/opinion-and-commentary/beps-pivotal-in-fight-over-tax-competition/): This article appeared in Cayman Financial Review.
- [CF&P Comments on Boustany's BEPS Act](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/news/press-releases/cfp-comments-on-boustanys-beps-act/): Statement from CF&P President Andrew Quinlan on recently introduced BEPS Act
- [New CF&P Paper Calls for Action On Auto Parts Protectionism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/news/press-releases/new-cfp-paper-calls-for-action-on-auto-parts-protectionism/): The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation released today a new paper on the growing use of design patents to prevent competition in the auto parts aftermarket.
- [Coalition For Tax Competition Letter Urges Congress to  Defund the OECD, Oppose BEPS](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/news/press-releases/coalition-for-tax-competition-letter-urges-congress-to-defund-the-oecd-oppose-beps/): Coalition calls on Congress to stop funding the OECD and its work against American taxpayer's interests.
- [The OECD’s Jihad against American Taxpayers and its Campaign to Undermine U.S. Fiscal Sovereignty](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/blog/big-government/the-oecds-jihad-against-american-taxpayers-and-its-campaign-to-undermine-u-s-fiscal-sovereignty/): BEPS and other bad anti-tax competition schemes from the OECD.
- [Another Attack on Tax Competition: “Panama Papers” Is a Non-Controversy Controversy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/blog/another-attack-on-tax-competition-panama-papers-is-a-non-controversy-controversy/): Investors using legal services is dog bites man story.
- [Panama Leaks: Exposing Private Information Serves an Ideological Agenda](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/panama-leaks-exposing-private-information-serves-an-ideological-agenda/): This article appeared in IFC Review.
- [Tax Havens Promote Economic Prosperity and Protect Human Liberty](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/blog/tax-havens-promote-economic-prosperity-and-protect-human-liberty/): The world is a better place thanks to tax havens.
- [Congress Should Embrace Hensarling’s Financial Reforms](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/congress-should-embrace-hensarlings-financial-reforms/): This article originally appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [The Media is After Us Because We're Effective](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/blog/uncategorized/the-media-is-after-us-because-were-effective/): We fight for tax competition because it protects all of us.
- [Politicians Pointing Fingers Over Corporate Inversions Should Look in the Mirror](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/politicians-pointing-fingers-over-corporate-inversions-should-look-in-the-mirror/): This article appeared on The Blaze.
- [Despite New Limits, The IRS is Not Yet Under Control](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/opinion-and-commentary/despite-new-limits-the-irs-is-not-yet-under-control/): This article originally appeared on The Blaze.
- [Time for Congress to Reform Federal Aviation Taxes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/time-for-congress-to-reform-federal-aviation-taxes/): This article appeared on Inside Sources.
- [Luetkemeyer And Hensarling Work To Prevent The Next Operation Choke Point](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/luetkemeyer-and-hensarling-work-to-prevent-the-next-operation-choke-point/): This article appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [CFPB Shouldn’t Destroy Small Loans Industry](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/cfpb-shouldnt-destroy-small-loans-industry/): This article appeared on Inside Sources.
- [Will Government Destroy a Company to Bailout a Hedge Fund Titan?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/will-government-destroy-a-company-to-bailout-a-hedge-fund-titan/): This article appeared on The Blaze.
- [Puerto Rico Needs Structural Reform, Not a Bailout](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/puerto-rico-needs-structural-reform-not-a-bailout/): This article appeared on Inside Sources.
- [Hold Your Wallet — Music Publishers Squeeze Government For Higher Fees](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/hold-your-wallet-music-publishers-squeeze-government-for-higher-fees/): This article appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [Billionaire’s Fight Against Herbalife Would Work as Big Short Sequel](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/billionaires-fight-against-herbalife-would-work-as-big-short-sequel/): This article appeared on Medium.
- [Corporate Tax Reform Must Protect U.S. Companies from Foreign Politicians](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/corporate-tax-reform-must-protect-u-s-companies-from-foreign-politicians/): This article appeared on Inside Sources.
- [Congress Must Not Bow To Puerto Rican Debt Tactics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/congress-must-not-bow-to-puerto-rican-debt-tactics/): This article appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [Anti-Gaming Lawmakers Still Waging a Losing Battle](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/anti-gaming-lawmakers-still-waging-a-losing-battle/): This article originally appeared on The Hill’s Congress Blog.
- [New Google Payday Advertising Policy No Benefit To The Poor](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/new-google-payday-advertising-policy-no-benefit-to-the-poor/): This article originally appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [It’s Time For Congress To Pass Puerto Rico Debt Fix](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/its-time-for-congress-to-pass-puerto-rico-debt-fix/): This article originally appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [Hensarling Offers Long Overdue Reforms to Dodd-Frank](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/hensarling-offers-long-overdue-reforms-to-dodd-frank/): This article appeared on Inside Sources.
- [Our Fight for Taxpayers Draws Fire](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/our-fight-for-taxpayers-draws-fire/): This article originally appeared on The Hill.
- [Is BEPS Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/blog/is-beps-full-of-sound-and-furying-signifying-nothing/): Some others are seeing through the OECD's BEPS fog.
- [Most Common Media Myths About the Panama Papers](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/blog/most-common-media-myths-about-the-panama-papers/): Popular coverage of the Panama Papers gets a lot wrong.
- [European Commission Launches Shakedown of Apple, Asserts Low Taxes Are “State Aid”](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/blog/european-commission-launches-shakedown-of-apple-asserts-low-taxes-are-state-aid/): Another attack on tax competition.
- [Preventing One Last Obamacare Rip-Off of Taxpayers](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/preventing-one-last-obamacare-rip-off-of-taxpayers/): This article originally appeared on The Blaze.
- [All Bank Customers Would Benefit From Undoing Durbin Amendment Price Controls](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/all-bank-customers-would-benefit-from-undoing-durbin-amendment-price-controls/): This article originally appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [Hidden Cronyism Bolsters Elon Musk](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/hidden-cronyism-bolsters-elon-musk/): This article appeared on Inside Sources.
- [Price Controls Work No Better in America than in Venezuela](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/price-controls-work-no-better-in-america-than-in-venezuela/): This article appeared in the Washington Examiner.
- [Private Investors in New Bridge Should Be Welcomed, Not Threatened](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/private-investors-in-new-bridge-should-be-welcomed-not-threatened/): This article appeared on AL.com.
- [CF&P Letter Calls on Congress to Include OECD with UN Defunding Effort](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/news/press-releases/cfp-letter-calls-on-congress-to-include-oecd-with-un-defunding-effort/): The Center for Freedom and Prosperity (CF&P) today released an open letter to members of Congress calling for the inclusion of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in discussions regarding the funding of international organizations.
- [The European Commission’s Attack on Apple and Ireland Is Really an Attack on Tax Competition](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/blog/big-government/the-european-commissions-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.
- [Tax Competition: A Necessary Liberalizing Process to Discipline the “Stationary Bandit” of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/big-government/tax-competition-a-necessary-liberalizing-process-to-discipline-the-stationary-bandit-of-government/): Politicians and special interests constrain their greed when they know that potential victims have the ability to escape.
- [Unfortunately, Trump’s Good Tax Plan Is Not a Serious Tax Plan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/big-government/unfortunately-trumps-good-tax-plan-is-not-a-serious-tax-plan/): A serious plan would include spending cuts.
- [Fake Concern From Contact Lens Giants Could Cost Consumers](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/fake-concern-from-contact-lens-giants-could-cost-consumers/): This article appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [CFPB Should Scrap, Not Tighten, Small-Dollar Lending Rules](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/cfpb-should-scrap-not-tighten-small-dollar-lending-rules/): This article appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [Horror: Pirate Contact Lenses!](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/horror-pirate-contact-lenses/): This article appeared on FEE.org.
- [OECD Watch](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/oecd-watch/): This article appeared in Cayman Financial Review.
- [A Potential Poison Pill In The Republican Tax Plan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/a-potential-poison-pill-in-the-republican-tax-plan/): This article appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [One Cabinet Post Trump Needs To Get Right](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/one-cabinet-post-trump-needs-to-get-right/): This article appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [Staying Vigilant to Protect Contact Lens Wearers](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/staying-vigilant-to-protect-contact-lens-wearers/): This article appeared on The Orange County Register.
- [Trump Should Reject Schumer’s Tax Hiking Olive Branch On Carried Interest](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/trump-should-reject-schumers-tax-hiking-olive-branch-on-carried-interest/): This article appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [Relief for Taxpayers and a Blow to the Opioid Crisis in One Move](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/relief-for-taxpayers-and-a-blow-to-the-opioid-crisis-in-one-move/): This article appeared on WisOpinion.com.
- [Republican Tax Reformers Are Playing With Fire](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/republican-tax-reformers-are-playing-with-fire/): This article appeared on Inside Sources.
- [The False Promises Of A Republican Carbon Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/the-false-promises-of-a-republican-carbon-tax/): This article appeared on the Daily Caller.
- [The Freedom Caucus's Admirable Stand Against a Bad Healthcare Bill](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/the-freedom-caucuss-admirable-stand-against-a-bad-healthcare-bill/): This article appeared on Townhall.com.
- [Washington Can't Permit EU-Led Open Season on U.S. Companies](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/blog/washington-cant-permit-eu-led-open-season-on-u-s-companies/): Congress must step in and prevent EU bureaucrats from rewriting global tax rules.
- [U.S. Anti-Inversion Regulations Badly Miss Target](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/opinion-and-commentary/u-s-anti-inversion-regulations-badly-miss-target/): This article appeared in Cayman Financial Review.
- [It’s Time To Bring Email Privacy Into The 21st Century](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/its-time-to-bring-email-privacy-into-the-21st-century/): This article appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [Don’t Fall For Air Travel Protectionism Appeals](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/dont-fall-for-air-travel-protectionism-appeals/): This article appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [New CF&P Paper Investigates Russian Efforts to Influence U.S. Energy Policy Through Environmentalist Groups](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/news/press-releases/cfp-paper-investigates-russian-influence-energy-policy/): The CF&P Foundation released today a new report titled, "Russia's Ties to U.S. Environmentalist Groups."
- [New “Economics 101” Video from CF&P Explains The Merits of Government Spending Caps](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/news/press-releases/new-economics-101-video-from-cfp-explains-the-merits-of-government-spending-caps/): New video explains why a government spending cap is the best solution for the U.S. and other nations facing grim fiscal futures.
- [CF&P-Led Coalition Calls for Reversal of  CFPB's Anti-Arbitration Rule](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/news/press-releases/cfp-led-coalition-calls-for-reversal-of-cfpbs-anti-arbitration-rule/): A coalition of 27 taxpayer protection and grassroots organizations led by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity sent a letter today urging Congress to invoke the Congressional Review Act to reverse a new CFPB rule.
- [CF&P Joins Coalition Supporting Tax Cuts and Jobs Act](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/news/press-releases/cfp-joins-coalition-supporting-tax-cuts-and-jobs-act/): Final votes in the House and Senate, plus President Trump's signature, are all that remain before the realization of decades of hard work on tax reform.
- [Lessons from the Reagan Tax Cuts](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/lessons-from-the-reagan-tax-cuts/): A New York Times column gets Reagan all wrong.
- [The “Stupid Party” Strikes Again with a Disheartening Deal to Avoid a Government Shutdown](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/big-government/the-stupid-party-strikes-again-with-a-disheartening-deal-to-avoid-a-government-shutdown/): It's business as usual under the GOP.
- [The Five Most Important Takeaways from Trump’s Budget](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/big-government/the-five-most-important-takeaways-from-trumps-budget/): But will any of it matter?
- [The Congressional Budget Office’s Questionable Analysis of Obamacare Repeal](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/the-congressional-budget-offices-questionable-analysis-of-obamacare-repeal/): The bureaucrats at CBO are still peddling nonsense.
- [True to Form, the Paris-Based OECD Urges More Class-Warfare Tax Hikes and Big Expansions of the Welfare State](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/big-government/true-to-form-the-paris-based-oecd-urges-more-class-warfare-tax-hikes-and-big-expansions-of-the-welfare-state/): A new OECD report reads as if it was taken from the campaign speeches of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn.
- [Why Is the Trump Administration AWOL on the IRS?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/big-government/why-is-the-trump-administration-awol-on-the-irs/): Puzzling inaction leaves the IRS bureaucracy on auto-pilot.
- [Can Republicans Learn from Reagan, Transcend Class Warfare, and Focus on Growth-Oriented Tax Policy?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/can-republicans-learn-from-reagan-transcend-class-warfare-and-focus-on-growth-oriented-tax-policy/): Reagan succeeded by ignoring the class-warfare crowd.
- [New Research on the Benefits of Lower Corporate Tax Rates](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/new-research-on-the-benefits-of-lower-corporate-tax-rates/): Some very positive findings.
- [Everything You Need to Know about Tax Reform and the Mortgage Interest Deduction](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/blog/everything-you-need-to-know-about-tax-reform-and-the-mortgage-interest-deduction/): Housing preferences in the tax code should be targeted for elimination.
- [Restricting the Deduction for State and Local Taxes Is a Big [Expletive Deleted] Deal](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/restricting-the-deduction-for-state-and-local-taxes-is-a-big-expletive-deleted-deal/): This is going to reverberate around the nation
- [Everything You Need to Know about Federal Spending in Five Charts](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/big-government/everything-you-need-to-know-about-federal-spending-in-five-charts/): How we got into our current mess.
- [CFPB's Prepaid Card Rule Is Another Obama-Era Agency Overreach](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/cfpbs-prepaid-card-rule-is-another-obama-era-agency-overreach/): This article appeared on Townhall.com.
- [Hiking Carried Interest Tax Is A Liberal Dream](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/hiking-carried-interest-tax-is-a-liberal-dream/): This article appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [In Tax Reform, Don't Mess with Carried Interest](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/in-tax-reform-dont-mess-with-carried-interest/): This article appeared on Washington Examiner.
- [GOP Should Think Big When It Comes to Corporate Tax Cuts](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/gop-should-think-big-when-it-comes-to-corporate-tax-cuts/): This article appeared on Morning Consult.
- [Republicans Must Stand Firm On Ending State And Local Deduction](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/republicans-must-stand-firm-on-ending-state-and-local-deduction/): This article appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Announces Creation of "Taxpayers Against Illicit Opioids"](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/news/press-releases/the-center-for-freedom-and-prosperity-announces-creation-of-taxpayers-against-illicit-opioids/): Today, the Center for Freedom and Prosperity formally announces the creation of their new coalition - "Taxpayers Against Illicit Opioids."
- [Will Congress Reject Trump’s Job-Killing Tax Increases on Trade?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/will-congress-reject-trumps-job-killing-tax-increases-on-trade/): Bastiat warned us.
- [The Capital Gains Tax Should Not Be Imposed on Inflationary Gains](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/the-capital-gains-tax-should-not-be-imposed-on-inflationary-gains/): There is a chance we’ll see some progress on this issue.
- [Is Alexander Hamilton the Real Libertarian Hero, not Thomas Jefferson?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/is-alexander-hamilton-the-real-libertarian-hero-not-thomas-jefferson/): Rehabilitating Hamilton
- [The Unpalatable Consequences of a Nationwide Carbon Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/big-government/the-unpalatable-consequences-of-a-nationwide-carbon-tax/): There’s no acceptable argument for a carbon tax.
- [Economic Boom from the Trump Tax Cuts? A Pro-Con Analysis](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/economic-boom-from-the-trump-tax-cuts-a-pro-con-analysis/): Trump has some bad policies that are offsetting his good tax reform.
- [Tariffs and America’s Early Economic History: A Primer for President Trump](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/tariffs-and-americas-early-economic-history-a-primer-for-president-trump/): America became rich because of other policies.
- [Voluntary Quit Rates Confirm that Federal Bureaucrats Are Overpaid](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/big-government/voluntary-quit-rates-confirm-that-federal-bureaucrats-are-overpaid/): This gap is staggering.
- [Eurocrats are scheming to raise Americans' taxes — how will Trump fight back?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/opinion-and-commentary/eurocrats-are-scheming-to-raise-americans-taxes-how-will-trump-fight-back/): This article appeared in The Washington Examiner.
- [Beware Tech Giants Seeking Regulation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/opinion-and-commentary/beware-tech-giants-seeking-regulation/): This article appeared on The Daily Caller.
- [Threatening A Program That Brings Investment to U.S.](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/opinion-and-commentary/threatening-a-program-that-brings-investment-to-u-s/): This article appeared in The Washington Times.
- [Trial Infrastructure Program Offers Deal for Taxpayers](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/opinion-and-commentary/trial-infrastructure-program-offers-deal-for-taxpayers/): This article appeared on Townhall.com.
- [Taking up Trump's Rescission Package a Needed First Step Toward Fiscal Responsibility](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/big-government/taking-up-trumps-rescission-package-a-needed-first-step-toward-fiscal-responsibility/): Will this be the start of something?
- [Supreme Court and the Welfare State](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/supreme-court-and-the-welfare-state/): What the court gets wrong about the role of government in our economy.
- [Fiscal Crisis in America, Part 1: Is A U.S. “Greek” Economic Disaster Possible?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/publications/fiscal-crisis-in-america-part-1-is-a-u-s-greek-economic-disaster-possible/): It is time to examine the case for a Greek-style fiscal crisis in the United States.
- [By Design: Poverty Forever](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/big-government/by-design-poverty-forever/): Why the war on poverty is unwinnable.
- [Socialist Myths About Economic Growth](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/big-government/socialist-myths-about-economic-growth/): They aren't so much ignorant of basic economic laws as indifferent to them.
- [Debunking a Critique of Capitalism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/debunking-a-critique-of-capitalism/): A Washington Post columnist claims to have identified “Five myths about capitalism.”
- [More Evidence that Small Government Works Better](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/big-government/more-evidence-that-small-government-works-better/): New research brings unexpected allies.
- [Extraterritoriality by the U.S. Government Could Weaken the Dollar and Backfire against the American Economy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/extraterritoriality-by-the-u-s-government-could-weaken-the-dollar-and-backfire-against-the-american-economy/): Washington shouldn’t be undermining the attractiveness of the dollar.
- [Income Mobility and Middle Class Prosperity](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/income-mobility-and-middle-class-prosperity/): More evidence for the growth argument.
- [Another Anti-Market Policy by Trump](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/big-government/another-anti-market-policy-by-trump/): The economics of price controls are clear.
- [New Research: Even Talking about Tax Increases Can Cause Economic Damage](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/new-research-even-talking-about-tax-increases-can-cause-economic-damage/): Shhh!
- [The Best and Worst News of 2018](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/big-government/the-best-and-worst-news-of-2018/): Not much to cheer about this year.
- [The World Trade Organization Advances American Prosperity](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/blog/the-world-trade-organization-advances-american-prosperity/): The WTO unambiguously advances U.S. interests
- [The Evidence-Based Case for Free Trade](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/blog/the-evidence-based-case-for-free-trade/): Can anyone meet this challenge?
- [The OECD Wants to Impose Higher Taxes and Bigger Government on Poor Nations](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/blog/big-government/the-oecd-wants-to-impose-higher-taxes-and-bigger-government-on-poor-nations/): The Paris-based OECD actually asserts that higher taxes and more spending will lead to more prosperity.
- [The War on Wealth](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/blog/the-war-on-wealth/): The left's crazy ideas are a real threat.
- [The Cayman Islands: A Role Model for Harmony and Prosperity](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/blog/the-cayman-islands-a-role-model-for-harmony-and-prosperity/): Amazing what the absence of an income tax can do.
- [Trump Treasury Secretary Supports French Tax Harmonization Scheme](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/blog/trump-treasury-secretary-supports-french-tax-harmonization-scheme/): This is horribly misguided.
- [Senator Wyden Shows that It Is Possible to Worsen Capital Gains Taxation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/blog/senator-wyden-shows-that-it-is-possible-to-worsen-capital-gains-taxation/): Why would Sen. Wyden propose such a clunky class-warfare scheme?
- [Five Things to Understand about Trump’s Trade War with China](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/blog/five-things-to-understand-about-trumps-trade-war-with-china/): Is Trump’s saber rattling on China trade helping or hurting?
- [Proposed Tax on Tasty Food Shows Downside of Government Involvement in Health Care](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/big-government/proposed-tax-on-tasty-food-shows-downside-of-government-involvement-in-health-care/): It's a threat to our liberty.
- [Why the U.S. and the Worldwide Tax  Systems Have Run Amok](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/publications/why-the-u-s-and-the-worldwide-tax-systems-have-run-amok/): Many overly aggressive tax compliance and enforcement initiatives have been undertaken in recent years.
- [Can the World Stop the Bucking Bronco? The Need to Balance the Expanding Anti-Money Laundering Regimes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/publications/can-the-world-stop-the-bucking-bronco-the-need-to-balance-the-expanding-anti-money-laundering-regimes/): There's a need for a rebalancing of the expanding financial enforcement regime.
- [CF&P Statement on the Passing of David Koch](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/news/press-releases/cfp-statement-on-the-passing-of-david-koch/): We mourn David’s passing.
- [The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Announces Creation of “Stop Biased Banking”](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/news/press-releases/the-center-for-freedom-and-prosperity-announces-creation-of-stop-biased-banking/): New initiative will fight back against liberal elites targeting financial institutions that don’t align with their left-wing agenda.
- [Politicians in California Town Wipe Out Jobs and Businesses with Higher Minimum Wage](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/blog/politicians-in-california-town-wipe-out-jobs-and-businesses-with-higher-minimum-wage/): It’s not just workers who are suffering.
- [Trump’s Self-Sabotaging Trade Taxes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/blog/trumps-self-sabotaging-trade-taxes/): The various tax hikes on trade cumulatively represent a giant tax increase.
- [The Trump Tax Reform Is Generating Good Results](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/blog/the-trump-tax-reform-is-generating-good-results/): Critics are wrong about the cause of red-ink.
- [The Continuing Battle against Cronyism at the Export-Import Bank](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/blog/big-government/the-continuing-battle-against-cronyism-at-the-export-import-bank/): There may be an opportunity to at least curtail its power and authority.
- [Ready for the Green New Cronyism?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/opinion-and-commentary/ready-for-the-green-new-cronyism/): This article appeared on The American Conservative.
- [More Global Evidence for Spending Caps](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/blog/big-government/more-global-evidence-for-spending-caps/): The economic case for spending caps is ironclad.
- [Four Things to Understand about the Taxation of International Businesses](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/blog/four-things-to-understand-about-the-taxation-of-international-businesses/): Tax-loving bureaucrats at the IMF whine about low-tax jurisdictions.
- [Extending EV Tax Credits Would Perpetuate Perceptions of a Rigged Economy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/opinion-and-commentary/extending-ev-tax-credits-would-perpetuate-perceptions-of-a-rigged-economy/): This article appeared on Inside Sources.
- [Bad Government Policy Begets Worse In U.S. Aluminum Market](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/opinion-and-commentary/bad-government-policy-begets-worse-in-u-s-aluminum-market/): This article appeared on RealClearMarkets.
- [Urban and Rural Interests Unite on Reforms to EB-5 Program](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/opinion-and-commentary/urban-and-rural-interests-unite-on-reforms-to-eb-5-program/): This article appeared on Morning Consult.
- [New Video Argues for Use of WTO to Advance Trade Agenda](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/news/press-releases/new-video-argues-for-use-of-wto-to-advance-trade-agenda/): A new video explains why policymakers should be using the World Trade Organization (WTO), instead of attacking it.
- [Coalition Supports Congressional Reforms for EB-5 Investor Immigrant Program](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/news/press-releases/coalition-supports-congressional-reforms-for-eb-5-investor-immigrant-program/): A coalition of 18 free market organizations supports proposed Congressional reforms to the EB-5 investor immigrant program.
- [Coalition Calls for Liability Protections for Frontline Pandemic Responders](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/news/press-releases/coalition-calls-for-liability-protections-for-frontline-pandemic-responders/): Coalition calls for protections for healthcare workers and businesses from opportunistic and abusive lawsuits following the COVID-19 pandemic.
- [CF&P Foundation Paper Finds Proposed Wealth Tax Would Mean Loss of 1.8 Million Jobs](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/news/press-releases/cfp-paper-finds-proposed-wealth-tax-would-mean-loss-of-1-8-million-jobs/): The Center for Freedom & Prosperity (CF&P) Foundation today published a new paper titled, “The Economic Effects of Wealth Taxes.”
- [The Deadly Campaign Against Vaping and E-Cigarettes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/blog/big-government/the-deadly-campaign-against-vaping-and-e-cigarettes/): Moral panics are not a recipe for good policy.
- [A Case Study of Pointless (but Costly) Financial Regulation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/blog/a-case-study-of-pointless-but-costly-financial-regulation/): This policy is all costs and no benefits.
- [European Tax Greed and American Tech Companies](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/blog/european-tax-greed-and-american-tech-companies/): They view American tech companies as a potential source of loot.
- [A Primer on “Price Gouging”](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/blog/a-primer-on-price-gouging/): A lesson to be learned.
- [The Bernie Sanders Paradox](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/blog/big-government/the-bernie-sanders-paradox/): They need wealth to redistribute, but they make it harder to create.
- [Coronavirus and the Government School Monopoly?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/blog/coronavirus-and-the-government-school-monopoly/): The virus may be putting pressure on America’s government school monopoly.
- [A Primer on the Laffer Curve](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/blog/a-primer-on-the-laffer-curve/): A presentation to the New Economic School in the nation of Georgia.
- [Which Party Does Better on the Economy?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/blog/which-party-does-better-on-the-economy/): Good policy matters more than party.
- [Administration Should Reform Rogue Labor Agency](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/opinion-and-commentary/administration-should-reform-rogue-labor-agency/): This article appeared on Inside Sources.
- [We Need a Separation Between Politics and Banking](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/opinion-and-commentary/we-need-a-separation-between-politics-and-banking/): This article appeared on Townhall.
- [A Statement from CF&P on COVID-19](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/news/a-statement-from-cfp-on-covid-19/): We at the Center for Freedom & Prosperity hope that you and your loved ones are well.
- [The HEROES Act Should Not Be Back Door for Price Controls](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/opinion-and-commentary/the-heroes-act-should-not-be-back-door-for-price-controls/): This article appeared on Townhall.
- [Congress Shouldn’t Sneak Insurance Handout into Next COVID Relief Package](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/opinion-and-commentary/congress-shouldnt-sneak-insurance-handout-into-next-covid-relief-package/): This article appeared on RealClearHealth.
- [No Unconditional Handouts to the States](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/opinion-and-commentary/no-unconditional-handouts-to-the-states/): This article appeared on Inside Sources.
- [Enacting Price Controls to Address Surprise Medical Bills Will Crush Independent Doctors and Harm Patients](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/opinion-and-commentary/enacting-price-controls-to-address-surprise-medical-bills-will-crush-independent-doctors-and-harm-patients/): This article appeared on Townhall.
- [America Still Needs Reaganism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/blog/america-still-needs-reaganism/): The desire to move beyond Reaganism comes from pro-Trump and anti-Trump outlets.
- [Evidence for Charter Schools](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/blog/evidence-for-charter-schools/): Charter schools are attracting more students because parents want better outcomes.
- [Biden’s Policy to Increase the Tax Burden on Investment, Wages, and Job Creation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/blog/bidens-policy-to-increase-the-tax-burden-on-investment-wages-and-job-creation/): Biden has embraced class-warfare taxation.
- [Milton Friedman on Taxation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/blog/milton-friedman-on-taxation/): The master was right.
- [The Most Important Ballot Initiative of 2020](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/blog/the-most-important-ballot-initiative-of-2020/): Save the flat tax!
- [Deconstructing Socialism, an Ideology Based on Government Control](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/blog/deconstructing-socialism-an-ideology-based-on-government-control/): There are also indirect ways for government to control the allocation of resources.
- [Interpreting the Election Results](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/blog/interpreting-the-election-results/): Where policy may be moving.
- [Walter Williams, RIP](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/blog/walter-williams-rip/): Commemorating the life of a great man.
- [The Poisonous Economics of Wealth Taxation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/blog/the-poisonous-economics-of-wealth-taxation/): More cold water on the idea of a wealth tax.
- [The Globe’s Looming Fiscal Crisis](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/the-globes-looming-fiscal-crisis/): Spending burdens were climbing in most nations even before the pandemic.
- [Teacher Unions vs. Students](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/teacher-unions-vs-students/): Will the despicable behavior of teacher unions lead to long-overdue reforms?
- [Remembering Walter Williams, R.I.P.](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2020/blog/uncategorized/remembering-walter-williams-r-i-p/): Memories of the importance of Dr. Williams in my own professional life.
- [Everything You Need to Know about Fixing the Budget Mess in Washington](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/big-government/everything-you-need-to-know-about-fixing-the-budget-mess-in-washington/): There is still a simple solution to America’s fiscal problems.
- [The Looming Crisis of Demographic Decline and Entitlement Expansion](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/big-government/the-looming-crisis-of-demographic-decline-and-entitlement-expansion/): There is a solution to both Europe’s and America’s woes.
- [Biden’s Misguided Keynesian “Stimulus”](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/big-government/bidens-misguided-keynesian-stimulus/): The United States is becoming more like Europe in a bad way.
- [Expanding the Welfare State with Per-Child Handouts](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/big-government/expanding-the-welfare-state-with-per-child-handouts/): Washington politicians are poised to enact a giant expansion of the welfare state.
- [What Biden’s Corporate Tax Increase Means for American Competitiveness](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/what-bidens-corporate-tax-increase-means-for-american-competitiveness/): More bad news.
- [No, the Government Shouldn't Punish Retail Investors Because of Bad Hedge Fund Bets](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/big-government/no-the-government-shouldnt-punish-retail-investors-because-of-bad-hedge-fund-bets/): The market is regulating itself.
- [The Value-Added Tax: A Recipe for More Spending…and More Debt](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/the-value-added-tax-a-recipe-for-more-spendingand-more-debt/): We should heed the real-world evidence.
- [Biden Tax Plan Hurts Competitiveness of U.S. Multinational Firms](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/opinion-and-commentary/biden-tax-plan-hurts-competitiveness-of-u-s-multinational-firms/): This article appeared in the Orange County Register.
- [The Most Disturbing Takeaway from Biden’s Budget Plan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/big-government/the-most-disturbing-takeaway-from-bidens-budget-plan/): Underscoring the radical nature of Biden’s budget.
- [Elizabeth Warren’s Plan to Reward a Corrupt IRS](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/elizabeth-warrens-plan-to-reward-a-corrupt-irs/): She has a reckless proposal.
- [The Importance of Low Marginal Tax Rates](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/the-importance-of-low-marginal-tax-rates/): It's the tax on the next dollar earned that matters.
- [Deconstructing Biden’s Corporate Tax Cartel, Part I](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/deconstructing-bidens-corporate-tax-cartel-part-i/): Politicians hate limits on their taxing power
- [Deconstructing Biden’s Corporate Tax Cartel, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/taxation/tax-competition/deconstructing-bidens-corporate-tax-cartel-part-ii/): Thankfully, there are lots of obstacles to a cartel.
- [Quantifying the Damage of Biden’s Plan for Higher Taxes on Capital Gains, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/quantifying-the-damage-of-bidens-plan-for-higher-taxes-on-capital-gains-part-ii/): Biden's spiteful mindset.
- [A Gold Standard vs. the Federal Reserve’s Fiat Money](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/a-gold-standard-vs-the-federal-reserves-fiat-money/): Is it time to reassess the gold standard?
- [Coronavirus: Free Market to the Rescue, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/uncategorized/coronavirus-free-market-to-the-rescue-part-ii/): This proposal is nuts.
- [Quantifying the Damage of Biden’s Plan for Higher Taxes on Capital Gains, Part I](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/quantifying-the-damage-of-bidens-plan-for-higher-taxes-on-capital-gains-part-i/): Quantify the likely damage if Biden’s proposals get enacted.
- [Can the Irish (Once Again) Save Civilization?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/can-the-irish-once-again-save-civilization/): Why Ireland should defends its fiscal sovereignty.
- [Will Excessive Government Spending Cause Another European Debt Crisis?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/big-government/will-excessive-government-spending-cause-another-european-debt-crisis/): Things are getting worse in Europe.
- [Another Troubling IRS Leak of Taxpayer Data](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/uncategorized/another-troubling-irs-leak-of-taxpayer-data/): The IRS has a history of misconduct.
- [Biden’s Boondoggle(s) and the Burden of Government Spending](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/blog/big-government/bidens-boondoggles-and-the-burden-of-government-spending/): A much-larger burden of government spending is on the way.
- [Yes, Starve the Beast](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/big-government/yes-starve-the-beast/): Or don't feed the beast.
- [The Case Against Price Controls, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/the-case-against-price-controls-part-ii/): Some folks on the left want to resuscitate this awful idea
- [Iowa Adopting a Flat Tax?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/iowa-adopting-a-flat-tax/): his would be very good news for Iowa’s economy and Iowa’s taxpayers.
- [Understanding Jobs, Trade, and Creative Destruction](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/understanding-jobs-trade-and-creative-destruction/): Why destruction is beneficial.
- [People Are Voting with Their Feet Against Statism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/people-are-voting-with-their-feet-against-statism/): It’s not just people that move.
- [Blame the Federal Reserve](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/blame-the-federal-reserve-2/): The Federal Reserve has put the country in a bad situation.
- [Debunking Biden’s Absurd “Cut the Deficit” Claim](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/big-government/debunking-bidens-absurd-cut-the-deficit-claim/): A jaw-dropping claim from the White House.
- [Deconstructing Biden’s Corporate Tax Cartel, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/deconstructing-bidens-corporate-tax-cartel-part-iii/): Why there's still reason to worry.
- [Biden’s Anemic Jobs Market](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/bidens-anemic-jobs-market/): Biden is making a bad situation worse.
- [Celebrating Progress on School Choice](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/celebrating-progress-on-school-choice/): Let a thousand flowers bloom!
- [Inflation Is Caused by Bad Government Policy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/inflation-is-caused-by-bad-government-policy/): Some of them want to blame Putin. Or the pandemic. Or “corporate greed.”
- [Biden Gets Competition All Wrong](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/opinion-and-commentary/biden-gets-competition-all-wrong/): This article appeared in the Inside Sources.
- [Don’t Erode Our Financial Rights to Punish Putin](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/opinion-and-commentary/dont-erode-our-financial-rights-to-punish-putin/): This article appeared in the Inside Sources.
- [Andrew F. Quinlan, R.I.P.](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/news/andrew-f-quinlan-r-i-p/): We are saddened to report that CF&P's co-founder and long-time President, Andrew Quinlan, passed away early Monday morning.
- [More Evidence Against the Capital Gains Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/more-evidence-against-the-capital-gains-tax/): It is a bad idea to impose a high tax rate on any type of productive behavior.
- [A Prosperity Contest: The United States vs. Europe](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/a-prosperity-contest-the-united-states-vs-europe/): Americans are comfortably ahead.
- [Corporate Tax Rates and Taxable Income](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/corporate-tax-rates-and-taxable-income/): Here's why politicians don't grab as much money as they hope
- [America’s Fiscal Problem Is Excessive Government Spending](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/big-government/americas-fiscal-problem-is-excessive-government-spending/): They've all contributed.
- [The Six Most Important Ballot Initiatives of 2022](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/the-six-most-important-ballot-initiatives-of-2022/): Voters will decide these key fiscal questions.
- [Earmarks Enable a Bigger Burden of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/big-government/earmarks-enable-a-bigger-burden-of-government/): Republicans decided that the swamp is actually a hot tub.
- [Eastern Europe and Economic Reform](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2022/blog/eastern-europe-and-economic-reform/): The demographic outlook in Eastern Europe is terrible.
- [New York's Coinbase Settlement Won't Benefit Consumers](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/blog/new-yorks-coinbase-settlement-wont-benefit-consumers/): Regulators seek to increase financial surveillance and impose failed AML rules on crypto.
- [Another Victory for Tax Competition](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/blog/another-victory-for-tax-competition/): Another government pressured to lower tax rates.
- [Deficit Spending and Inflation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/blog/big-government/deficit-spending-and-inflation/): When governments finance deficits by having central bank create money there is every reason to expect inflation.
- [Big-Spending Republicans Are Big-Taxing Republicans](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/blog/big-government/big-spending-republicans-are-big-taxing-republicans/): It's the inevitable outcome if fiscal policy is left on autopilot
- [The Most Important Thing to Understand about Biden’s New Budget](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/blog/big-government/the-most-important-thing-to-understand-about-bidens-new-budget/): The goal should be reducing that burden, regardless of whether it is financed with taxes, borrowing, or printing money.
- [There Are Not Enough Rich People to Finance Big Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/blog/big-government/there-are-not-enough-rich-people-to-finance-big-government/): Even Bernie Sanders recognizes this reality.
- [Time to (Finally) Defund the OECD?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/blog/time-to-finally-defund-the-oecd/): Will the US finally stop subsidizing this big cheerleader for higher taxes?
- [The Federal Reserve and “Fiscal Dominance”](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/blog/the-federal-reserve-and-fiscal-dominance/): What if the central bank is buying government bonds because of concerns that there otherwise won’t be enough buyers?
- [Assessing Bidenomics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/blog/assessing-bidenomics/): Inflation-adjusted wages for the average American worker have declined during the Biden presidency.
- [The Job-Destroying Effect of Trump-Biden Protectionism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/blog/the-job-destroying-effect-of-trump-biden-protectionism/): Trump was bad on trade and now Biden is too.
- [Credit Card Intervention Is Not About Competition](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/opinion-and-commentary/credit-card-intervention-is-not-about-competition/): This article appeared on DC Journal.
- [The OECD’s International Tax Overhaul Reaches A Pivotal Moment](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/opinion-and-commentary/the-oecds-international-tax-overhaul-reaches-a-pivotal-moment/): This article appeared on IFC Review.
- [Federal Spending Primer, Part I: Budget Basics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/publications/federal-spending-primer-part-i-budget-basics/): Explaining the core features of federal budgeting.
- [Federal Spending Primer, Part II: The Spending Burden](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/publications/federal-spending-primer-part-ii-the-spending-burden/): Understanding the economic burden of the federal government.
- [Federal Spending Primer, Part III: The Spending Problem is an Entitlement Problem](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/publications/federal-spending-primer-part-iii-the-spending-problem-is-an-entitlement-problem/): Discretionary spending is not causing America’s increasing fiscal burden.
- [Demographic Doom and the Welfare State](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/blog/big-government/demographic-doom-and-the-welfare-state-2/): A dramatic decline is coming.
- [New CFPB Regulations Benefit Biden, Not Consumers](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/opinion-and-commentary/new-cfpb-regulations-benefit-biden-not-consumers/): This article appeared at The Blaze.
- [Blue-to-Red Tax Migration, Part IV](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/blog/blue-to-red-tax-migration-part-iv/): People are escaping the fiscal hellholes
- [Joe Biden and Jobs](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/blog/joe-biden-and-jobs/): How's the job market’s performance during Biden’s time in office?
- [Corporate Taxation, Ireland, and Jealousy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/blog/corporate-taxation-ireland-and-jealousy/): You would think lefty economists would be happy.
- [CF&P Calls for Investigation into SEC Over False Bitcoin ETF News, Gensler Hacking Claims](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/news/press-releases/cfp-calls-for-investigation-into-sec-over-false-bitcoin-etf-news-gensler-hacking-claims/): Congress to investigate the SEC and its Chair Gary Gensler.
- [CF&P Responds to CFPB Credit Card Price Controls](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/news/press-releases/cfp-responds-to-cfpb-credit-card-price-controls/): Today's finalization of a Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) rule to impose price controls on credit cards will harm consumers.
- [Historians Are Worse than Economists](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/historians-are-worse-than-economists/): Historians don't understand the Great Depression.
- [The Case for Mutual Recognition](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/the-case-for-mutual-recognition/): Why mutual recognition is a good principle for cross-border economic relations.
- [Fiscal Patriotism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/fiscal-patriotism/): The kick-the-can-down-the-road approach is a recipe for fiscal chaos.
- [Dumb Idea of the Month: Currency Devaluation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/dumb-idea-of-the-month-currency-devaluation/): Some people don’t grasp this important relationship.
- [Everything You Need to Know About America’s Decaying Fiscal Status](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/everything-you-need-to-know-about-americas-decaying-fiscal-status/): This added spending burden is the main reason America is in fiscal trouble.
- [AML = High Costs and Trivial (if any) Benefits](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/aml-high-costs-and-trivial-if-any-benefits/): New evidence about why anti-money laundering laws and regulations are misguided.
- [A Primer on Marginal Tax Rates, Part IV: The Combined Burden of Levies on Income, Payroll, and Consumption](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/a-primer-on-marginal-tax-rates-part-iv-the-combined-burden-of-levies-on-income-payroll-and-consumption/): Successful taxpayers take steps to avoid the nations with the greediest governments.
- [Tax-Motivated International Migration](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/tax-motivated-international-migration/): Successful people are moving because they don’t want governments to take too much of their money.
- [Debunking Hate-and-Envy Tax Policy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/debunking-hate-and-envy-tax-policy/): Equality of outcomes versus equality of opportunities.
- [Trump’s Goofy New Tax Proposals](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/trumps-goofy-new-tax-proposals/): Trump’s two new ideas violate the principles of good tax policy.
- [A Preview of Kamalanomics?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/a-preview-of-kamalanomics/): She openly supports a radical view.
- [The IRS Should Not Tax Overseas Americans](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/the-irs-should-not-tax-overseas-americans/): The system is a compliance nightmare.
- [EFW 2024: Continuing Deterioration in Global Economic Liberty](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/efw-2024-continuing-deterioration-in-global-economic-liberty/): Good things happen when people “make their own economic choices.”
- [Ranking Biden on Economic Policy: A Track Record of Failure](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/ranking-biden-on-economic-policy-a-track-record-of-failure/): Is it possible to have zero economic accomplishments?
- [Good Riddance, Joe Biden](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/good-riddance-joe-biden/): He accomplished nothing good.
- [A Second Edition of Trump: Three Hopes, Three Fears](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/a-second-edition-of-trump-three-hopes-three-fears/): Biden being bad does not imply Trump being good.
- [Brian Garst Comments on Proposed Rule: Debit Card Interchange Fees and Routing](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/testimony-and-speeches/brian-garst-comments-proposed-rule-debit-card-interchange-fees-and-routing/): Comments to the Federal Reserve Board opposing a proposed rule to impose tighter price controls on interchange fees.
- [America’s Looming Fiscal Crisis](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/americas-looming-fiscal-crisis/): We’ve known for a long time about the problem of entitlement spending and demographic change.
- [Trump Proposes to Destroy Manufacturing Jobs](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/trump-proposes-to-destroy-manufacturing-jobs/): There are far more jobs in the metal-using sectors than there are in the metal-making sectors.
- [How the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission Mangled De Minimis Analysis](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/publications/how-the-u-s-china-economic-and-security-review-commission-mangled-de-minimis-analysis/): The Commission’s report makes several weak arguments in hopes of justifying this tax increase.
- [The Case Against The OECD](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/opinion-and-commentary/the-case-against-the-oecd/): This article appeared in IFC Review.
- [Yes, Social Security Is a Ponzi Scheme](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/yes-social-security-is-a-ponzi-scheme/): This shouldn't be controversial.
- [Trump Doubles Down on Protectionist Failure](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/trump-doubles-down-on-protectionist-failure/): This is insanely bad economic policy.
- [Trade Deficit Illiteracy, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/trade-deficit-illiteracy-part-ii/): They don’t explain why it is good to have government liberate more of our money.
- [Creative Destruction and Economic Performance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/creative-destruction-and-economic-performance/): You don’t want governments hindering “destruction.”
- [The 2024 Tax Hell Index](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-2024-tax-hell-index/): What nations feature a combination of bad fiscal policy and low-quality governance?
- [The Healthcare Exclusion Is (Still) the Tax Code’s Most Harmful Loophole](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-healthcare-exclusion-is-still-the-tax-codes-most-harmful-loophole/): Health insurance should be more like home or auto insurance.
- [Elon Musk’s Constitutional Amendment: Right Concept, Wrong Rule](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/elon-musks-constitutional-amendment-right-concept-wrong-rule/): The correct way to change political incentives.
- [Biden Invited Another Housing Crash. Trump Can Stop It](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/opinion-and-commentary/biden-invited-another-housing-crash-trump-can-stop-it/): This article appeared in the Washington Examiner.
- [Five Options for the Future of Social Security](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/five-options-for-the-future-of-social-security/): Policy makers will have to choose from these five options.
- [Handouts Don’t Help Kids](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/handouts-dont-help-kids/): Support for basic income seems to have withered.
- [America’s Increasingly Horrible Tax Code](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/americas-increasingly-horrible-tax-code/): Complexity imposes real economic costs.
- [Measuring the Economic Cost of Government Clutter](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/measuring-the-economic-cost-of-government-clutter/): The problem is getting worse not better.
- [Excessive Government Spending in Western Nations](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/excessive-government-spending-in-western-nations/): OECD acknowledges that excessive spending is a problem for OECD nations.
- [Will California Commit Economic Suicide?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/will-california-commit-economic-suicide/): These groups seem in a hurry for crisis, bankruptcy, and decline.
- [Credit Unions Have Become Financial Behemoths; It’s Time to Restore Fairness](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/opinion-and-commentary/credit-unions-have-become-financial-behemoths-its-time-to-restore-fairness/): This article appeared at DC Journal.
- [In His Quest for Easy-Money Policy, Trump Launches Lawfare Against the Federal Reserve](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/in-his-quest-for-easy-money-policy-trump-launches-lawfare-against-the-federal-reserve/): Trump has gone nuclear in his quest for loose monetary policy,
- [Milei Recorta la Carga de la Deuda Argentina](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/latin-american-liberty/milei-recorta-la-carga-de-la-deuda-argentina/): Javier Milei ha llevado a cabo la mayor consolidación fiscal en tiempos de paz de la historia mundial.
- [Bolivia, Estatismo y Estancamiento](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/latin-american-liberty/bolivia-estatismo-y-estancamiento/): Las malas políticas han sido la norma en Bolivia.
- [Los Problemas Fiscales de Colombia](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/latin-american-liberty/los-problemas-fiscales-de-colombia/): Es bueno ver que los contribuyentes protestan.
- [Trump’s Shameful Economic Illiteracy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/trumps-shameful-economic-illiteracy/): Rather than undo his own mistakes, he has chosen to engage in demagoguery.
- [Based on Job Data, Trump’s Trade Agenda Is a Failure](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/based-on-job-data-trumps-trade-agenda-is-a-failure/): Ever since Trump imposed big tax increases on global trade, job numbers have gotten worse.
- [The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: Cronyism and Corruption Instead of Growth](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/publications/the-european-bank-for-reconstruction-and-development-cronyism-instead-of-growth/): Given the dismal track record of other international bureaucracies, as well as the systemic failure of foreign aid to produce better economic performance, it’s unclear whether any reforms could salvage the EBRD.
- [Fiscal Crisis in America, Part 2: Greece – A Harbinger for the United States?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/publications/fiscal-crisis-in-america-part-2-greece-a-harbinger-for-the-united-states/): There are compelling similarities between Greece before the crisis and in the United States today.
- [Paid Family Leave: An Ideological Analysis](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2019/publications/paid-family-leave-an-ideological-analysis/): There is a lack of principled discussion over the role of government in the financial security of America’s families.
- [The Case Against Foreign Aid](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/publications/the-case-against-foreign-aid/): Analyzing foreign aid and its effectiveness.
- [The Case for a Comprehensive Spending Cap](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/publications/the-case-for-a-comprehensive-spending-cap/): Why a spending cap is necessary and how to implement it.
- [The Economic Benefits of Peace in Ukraine](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/publications/the-economic-benefits-of-peace-in-ukraine/): Peace in Ukraine would bring wide economic benefits.
- [The United States Has the Developed World’s Most “Progressive” Tax System](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-united-states-has-the-developed-worlds-most-progressive-tax-system/): The rich still bear the biggest burden of tax in the United States.
- [Americans Are Getting Richer, Part IV](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/americans-are-getting-richer-part-iv/): Yet the United States could be growing even faster.
- [Trump Pulls Out of 66 International Bureaucracies, Which is a Positive Development, but Why Remain in the Worst Ones?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/trump-pulls-out-of-66-international-bureaucracies-which-is-a-positive-development-but-why-remain-in-the-worst-ones/): The two worst bureaucracies emerged unscathed.
- [Una Mala Política de Gasto Conduce a una Mala Política Fiscal: El Caso de Brasil](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/latin-american-liberty/una-mala-politica-de-gasto-conduce-a-una-mala-politica-fiscal-el-caso-de-brasil/): La carga del gasto público ha aumentado.
- [El fracaso del Socialismo en Venezuela, Parte II: Comparaciones con Argentina y Chile](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/latin-american-liberty/el-fracaso-del-socialismo-en-venezuela-parte-ii-comparaciones-con-argentina-y-chile/): Cuanto más tiempo siga una nación una buena política, mejores serán los resultados.
- [El Fracaso del Socialismo en Venezuela, Parte I](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2023/latin-american-liberty/el-fracaso-del-socialismo-en-venezuela-parte-i/): Venezuela es un ejemplo trágico.
- [Bolivia, Statism, and Stagnation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/bolivia-statism-and-stagnation/): Bad policy has been the norm in Bolivia.
- [Friedman contra Stiglitz: Chile contra Venezuela](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/latin-american-liberty/friedman-contra-stiglitz-chile-contra-venezuela/): Existe una controversia sobre el papel de dos destacados economistas estadounidenses.
- [By His Own Standard, Trump’s Trade Agenda Is a Failure](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/by-his-own-standard-trumps-trade-agenda-is-a-failure/): How are those trade deficits looking?
- [Tomatoes Are the New Eggs](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/opinion-and-commentary/tomatoes-are-the-new-eggs/): This article appeared at RealClearPolicy.
- [Libertarian Tourism in Argentina…and Latin American Liberty](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/libertarian-tourism-in-argentinaand-latin-american-liberty/): Helping "Milei-ism" spread around the world.
- [The Tradeoff Between Tax Progressivity and Economic Output, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/the-tradeoff-between-tax-progressivity-and-economic-output-part-ii/): The damage of “progressive” tax rates
- [Otro ataque a la competencia fiscal: los «Papeles de Panamá» son una controversia sin controversia](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2016/latin-american-liberty/otro-ataque-a-la-competencia-fiscal-los-papeles-de-panama-son-una-controversia-sin-controversia/): Que los inversores utilicen servicios jurídicos no es ningún escándalo.
- [El Irresponsable Presidente Populista de México Propone un Regalo Electoral en Año de Elecciones](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/latin-american-liberty/el-irresponsable-presidente-populista-de-mexico-propone-un-regalo-electoral-en-ano-de-elecciones/): Desde que el presidente de izquierda y populista Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) fue elegido, las políticas han tomado un rumbo equivocado.
- [Mexico’s Irresponsible Populist President Proposes Election-Year Giveaway](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/mexicos-irresponsible-populist-president-proposes-election-year-giveaway/): Policy has moved in the wrong direction ever since leftist/populist President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was elected.
- [Three Potential Options for Venezuela](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/three-potential-options-for-venezuela/): Looking at the costs and benefits of a few potential outcomes.
- [Zohran Mamdani, Part I: The “Caviar Communist” Openly Embraces Collectivism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2026/blog/zohran-mamdani-part-i-the-caviar-communist-openly-embraces-collectivism/): Your eyes and ears are not deceiving you.
- [Learning the Right Lesson from the Massive Medicaid Fraud Scandal in Tim Walz’s Minnesota](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/learning-the-right-lesson-from-the-massive-medicaid-fraud-scandal-in-tim-walzs-minnesota/): Minnesota is among the worst of the worst.
- [The Battle for Free Speech, Part I](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-battle-for-free-speech-part-i/): How governments continue to attack free speech.
- [Celebrating Two Years of Libertarian Success in Argentina](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/celebrating-two-years-of-libertarian-success-in-argentina/): Additional progress is likely to happen.
- [Capitalism > Socialism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/capitalism-socialism/): Debunking economic myths.
- [Trump’s Income Challenge](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/trumps-income-challenge/): Are Trump's policies helping or hurting ordinary people?
- [The Rahn Curve: A Bigger Welfare State = Less Prosperity](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-rahn-curve-a-bigger-welfare-state-less-prosperity/): More evidence that higher government spending is correlated with less prosperity.
- [Another Feel-Good Map for 2025](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/another-feel-good-map-for-2025/): This shows amazing progress.
- [Voters Sometimes Like Big Government…When Someone Else Is Paying](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/voters-sometimes-like-big-governmentwhen-someone-else-is-paying/): Most American's aren't keen to pay much more.
- [HFI25: Switzerland Remains the World’s Freest Nation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/hfi25-switzerland-remains-the-worlds-freest-nation/): This is hardly a surprise.
- [Demographic Decline, Part II: America’s Unaffordable Young-to-Old Welfare State](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/demographic-decline-part-ii-americas-unaffordable-young-to-old-welfare-state/): This startling chart is grim news for working age Americans.
- [Demographic Decline, Part I: Baby Subsidies Are an Ineffective Response](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/demographic-decline-part-i-baby-subsidies-are-an-ineffective-response/): Can government policy even do anything?
- [Can the European Union Be Salvaged?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/can-the-european-union-be-salvaged/): The European Union does not defend these Western values.
- [Should Government Schools Be Rewarded for Failure?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/should-government-schools-be-rewarded-for-failure/): Another states fails to see results after pumping money into education.
- [A Picture Says a Thousand Words: The Adverse Economic Impact of State Income Taxes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/a-picture-says-a-thousand-words-the-adverse-economic-impact-of-state-income-taxes/): These changes in relative prosperity are amazing.
- [Twenty-Three Theorems of Government, but One Favorite](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/twenty-three-theorems-of-government-but-one-favorite/): The one I wish everyone in Washington would understand and internalize.
- [Mitchell’s Law: Bad Trade Policy Leads to Bad Farm Policy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/mitchells-law-bad-trade-policy-leads-to-bad-farm-policy/): Trump is compounding his mistake with more farm welfare.
- [Germany’s Accelerating Fiscal and Economic Decline](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/germanys-accelerating-fiscal-and-economic-decline/): Unfortunately, bad fiscal policy has become worse fiscal policy.
- [Taxes, Sex, and Babies](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/taxes-sex-and-babies/): What's the limit to how much taxes change behavior?
- [Europe’s Grim Fiscal Future](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/europes-grim-fiscal-future/): This chart is a reason to be pessimistic about Europe.
- [Don’t Let Bureaucrats at the United Nations Impose Taxes on International Shipping](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/dont-let-bureaucrats-at-the-united-nations-impose-taxes-on-international-shipping/): This could be a costly bit of mischief.
- [Ukraine’s Self-Imposed Statism Crisis, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/ukraines-self-imposed-statism-crisis-part-ii/): What Ukraine needs is more economic liberty.
- [Measuring the Benefits of Deregulation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/measuring-the-benefits-of-deregulation/): The positive economic impact of deregulation in OECD nations.
- [Should Iceland Join the European Union?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/should-iceland-join-the-european-union/): The E.U. is almost surely destined to suffer a massive fiscal crisis.
- [France, Germany, and the 17th Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/france-germany-and-the-17th-theorem-of-government/): More people are now aware of this problem.
- [Part III: Yes, Taxes Change Behavior](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/part-iii-yes-taxes-change-behavior/): High marginal tax rate discourages work.
- [George Orwell, Joy Reid, and the Economics of Fascism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/george-orwell-joy-reid-and-the-economics-of-fascism/): Does fascism prefer large or small government?
- [A Straw-Man Defense of Protectionism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/a-straw-man-defense-of-protectionism/): Not every bad policy immediately kills the economic host.
- [Fiscal Rules Focused on Debt Don’t Necessarily Produce Good Outcomes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/fiscal-rules-focused-on-debt-dont-necessarily-produce-good-outcomes/): There's one big problem with these rules.
- [Taxes and Growth, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/taxes-and-growth-part-ii/): Some taxes are more harmful than others.
- [Obamacare, the Second Theorem of Government, Short-Run Political Consequences, and Long-Run Fiscal Consequences](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/obamacare-the-second-theorem-of-government-short-run-political-consequences-and-long-run-fiscal-consequences/): Republicans should hold firm on ending this subsidy.
- [Part IV: Yes, Taxes Change Behavior](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/part-iv-yes-taxes-change-behavior/): Greek politicians are showing they understand economics.
- [France, Electoral Suicide, and the 22nd Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/france-electoral-suicide-and-the-22nd-theorem-of-government/): The French electorate is delusional.
- [The Looming Fiscal Crisis, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-looming-fiscal-crisis-part-ii/): How politicians will respond when a crisis unfolds.
- [Central Bankers Dodging Blame, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/central-bankers-dodging-blame-part-ii/): The governor of the Bank of England is blaming what?!
- [Part II: Is Switzerland the World’s Best Nation?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/part-ii-is-switzerland-the-worlds-best-nation/): Why Switzerland is so far ahead of its neighbors.
- [Part III: Is Switzerland the World’s Best Nation?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/part-iii-is-switzerland-the-worlds-best-nation/): The most important fact about Switzerland...
- [More U.N. Lies about Poverty](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/more-u-n-lies-about-poverty/): The U.N.’s supposed expert is either a bald-faced liar or a blithering idiot.
- [Part V: Yes, Taxes Change Behavior](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/part-v-yes-taxes-change-behavior/): Politicians in Kyoto have shown that they understand the economics of taxation.
- [Can Milei-ism Save the United Kingdom, Part II?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/can-milei-ism-save-the-united-kingdom-part-ii/): The bi-partisan approach of bigger government is not working.
- [Reagan and Trade, Part IV: The Gipper Supported Open Markets](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/reagan-and-trade-part-iv-the-gipper-supported-open-markets/): Why such a petulant reaction to this ad?
- [The Out-Sized Importance of Today’s Mid-Term Elections in Argentina](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-out-sized-importance-of-todays-mid-term-elections-in-argentina/): Has Milei turned Argentinians into freedom lovers?
- [Another Libertarian Landslide in Argentina](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/another-libertarian-landslide-in-argentina/): Voters delivered a large and unexpected landslide for Javier Milei and his libertarian LLA party.
- [Implications of the (Second) Libertarian Landslide in Argentina](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/implications-of-the-second-libertarian-landslide-in-argentina/): Argentina is now the epicenter of the global fight for economic liberty.
- [The Economic Reason Why Trump Is Right To Push for Peace in Ukraine](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-economic-reason-why-trump-is-right-to-push-for-peace-in-ukraine/): Many reasons why the U.S. would benefit from Ukraine peace.
- [STCI 2026: Winners and Losers in State Tax Policy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/stci-2026-winners-and-losers-in-state-tax-policy/): No big surprise among the best and worst states.
- [Personal Retirement Accounts Are (Still) Superior to Social Security](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/personal-retirement-accounts-are-still-superior-to-social-security/): The system should have been reformed long ago.
- [Learning the Wrong Lessons from Europe](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/learning-the-wrong-lessons-from-europe/): European governments have given us very powerful evidence that tax increases are simply a recipe for more spending and more debt.
- [Will Milei’s Success Trigger a Global Renewal of Economic Liberty?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/will-mileis-success-trigger-a-global-renewal-of-economic-liberty/): Milei-ism is attracting more and more attention.
- [G20 Report on Inequality Urges More Statism, More Poverty](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/g20-report-on-inequality-urges-more-statism-more-poverty/): This is no recipe for prosperity.
- [The Value-Added Tax: A Recipe for More Spending…and More Debt: Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-value-added-tax-a-recipe-for-more-spendingand-more-debt-part-ii/): The United States should not make this same mistake.
- [The Best and Worst American Presidents](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-best-and-worst-american-presidents/): A full ranking.
- [Trump Copies Biden’s Leftist Demagoguery](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/trump-copies-bidens-leftist-demagoguery/): Trump is playing Biden's greatest hits.
- [Conservative ≠ Free Market](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/conservative-≠-free-market/): Being a cultural conservative doesn't mean supporting economic liberty.
- [Chile vs. Venezuela](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/chile-vs-venezuela/): Slam-dunk evidence for capitalism over socialism.
- [Socialism, Cronyism, and Creative Destruction](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/socialism-cronyism-and-creative-destruction/): Trump and his team have made the federal government a shareholder in several firms.
- [Blue-to-Red Tax Migration, Part VI](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/blue-to-red-tax-migration-part-vi/): A must-share map showing people “voting with their feet.”
- [The Taiwan Economic Miracle](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-taiwan-economic-miracle/): A closer look at Taiwan’s economic performance.
- [Coalition to President Trump: Protect Access to Alternative Investments from Gensler-era SEC Overreach](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/letters/coalition-to-president-trump-protect-access-to-alternative-investments-from-gensler-era-sec-overreach/): Coalition calls to halt stale, Gensler-era SEC investigations threatening the expansion of access to alternative investments.
- [2025’s Counter-Tweet of the Year?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/2025s-counter-tweet-of-the-year-5/): Game, set, match.
- [Was Brexit a Mistake?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/was-brexit-a-mistake/): Is this data convincing?
- [A Case Study of Sloppy Research and Media Bias, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/a-case-study-of-sloppy-research-and-media-bias-part-ii/): This is a weird criteria for finding the best states for raising children.
- [Abolish the Department of Education](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/abolish-the-department-of-education/): Moving programs from one bureaucracy to another isn't progress.
- [Trump’s Failed Protectionism, Illustrated by Tweets](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/trumps-failed-protectionism-illustrated-by-tweets/): Why have Trump’s trade taxes backfired?
- [The Adverse Consequences of High-Tax Welfare States](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-adverse-consequences-of-high-tax-welfare-states/): More evidence that small government is the best way to deliver more prosperity.
- [The Ongoing Tragedy of Cuban Socialism, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-ongoing-tragedy-of-cuban-socialism-part-ii/): More evidence that socialism is wreaking havoc in Cuba.
- [Tax-Motivated International Migration, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/tax-motivated-international-migration-part-ii/): Why upper-income taxpayers want to escape some democratic nations.
- [Belgium, the Pack-a-Day Spending Habit, and the 20th Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/belgium-the-pack-a-day-spending-habit-and-the-20th-theorem-of-government/): The government budget is consuming ever-larger shares of the Belgian economy.
- [IMF Bureaucrats (Who Get Tax-Free Salaries) Recommend Big Tax Increases for Bulgaria](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/imf-bureaucrats-who-get-tax-free-salaries-recommend-big-tax-increases-for-bulgaria/): No surprise here...
- [Japan’s Growing Burden of Government Means an Inevitable Fiscal Crisis](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/japans-growing-burden-of-government-means-an-inevitable-fiscal-crisis/): Why hasn’t the you-know-what hit the fan in Japan?
- [America Does Not Have a Free Market Health Care System, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/america-does-not-have-a-free-market-health-care-system-part-ii/): Bad government policy has left us with an inefficient and expensive system.
- [Minnesota’s Governor Walz Enabled Fraud for Political Gain](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/minnesotas-governor-walz-enabled-fraud-for-political-gain/): Politicians oftentimes defend fraud for self-interested reasons.
- [The Sensible Swiss Strike Again, Overwhelmingly Rejecting Class Warfare](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-sensible-swiss-strike-again-overwhelmingly-rejecting-class-warfare/): The people of Switzerland overwhelmingly voted against a class warfare initiative.
- [The Risk of Forced Regime Change in Venezuela](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-risk-of-forced-regime-change-in-venezuela/): Does the US want to be responsible for what follows?
- [Every State Needs a TABOR-Style Spending Cap](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/every-state-needs-a-tabor-style-spending-cap/): Colorado shows us the ideal fiscal rule.
- [The Sad (and Irreversible?) Decline of New York and California](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-sad-and-irreversible-decline-of-new-york-and-california/): Can the politicians in either Sacramento or Albany change direction?
- [The Economics of Trade, Specialization, and Comparative Advantage, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-economics-of-trade-specialization-and-comparative-advantage-part-ii/): People don’t intuitively understand comparative advantage.
- [What if We Had a Government Shutdown (Again) and Nobody Noticed or Cared?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/what-if-we-had-a-government-shutdown-again-and-nobody-noticed-or-cared/): This squabble may lead to a decent outcome.
- [Part II: Yes, Taxes Change Behavior](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/part-ii-yes-taxes-change-behavior/): People respond to incentives.
- [Understanding Financial Instability in Argentina](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/understanding-financial-instability-in-argentina/): The threat of a return to Peronism is already taking a toll.
- [Another Laffer Curve Blunder by Greedy British Politicians](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/another-laffer-curve-blunder-by-greedy-british-politicians/): Another real world example of the Laffer Curve.
- [Italy, the Pack-a-Day Spending Habit, and the 20th Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/italy-the-pack-a-day-spending-habit-and-the-20th-theorem-of-government/): Italy occasionally compounds its poor economic health with the fiscal equivalent of binge drinking.
- [EFW 2025: A Slight Uptick in Global Economic Liberty](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/efw-2025-a-slight-uptick-in-global-economic-liberty/): Poverty is lowest in nations with the most economic liberty.
- [Great Moments in Supranational Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/great-moments-in-supranational-government/): Amazing but disgusting examples of fraud.
- [Bulgaria and the 20th Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/bulgaria-and-the-20th-theorem-of-government/): Good things happen when government is constrained.
- [Part I: Yes, Taxes Change Behavior](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/part-i-yes-taxes-change-behavior/): There is a problem in the housing market.
- [Where Are the Protectionist Success Stories?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/where-are-the-protectionist-success-stories/): Trump's claim about tariffs and wealth is completely wrong.
- [The Importance of Reducing Economic Clutter](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-importance-of-reducing-economic-clutter/): Here are the most and least laissez-faire nations.
- [Trump’s Golden Visa, the 21st Theorem of Government, and Sensible Tax Policy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/trumps-golden-visa-the-21st-theorem-of-government-and-sensible-tax-policy/): America should welcome people who do this.
- [Pull the Plug on the Federal Communications Commission](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/pull-the-plug-on-the-federal-communications-commission/): There's a simple solution to all this.
- [The 2025 Version of Which Country Will Be the First Debt Domino?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-2025-version-of-which-country-will-be-the-first-debt-domino/): Will the next debt domino be the United States?
- [Part II: Who Pays the Corporate Income Tax?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/part-ii-who-pays-the-corporate-income-tax/): New evidence highlights the impact on wages.
- [Spain’s Risky Fiscal Status](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/spains-risky-fiscal-status/): The country will be disappearing by 2100
- [Federal Credit Unions: Nonprofits or Large Financial Conglomerates?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/opinion-and-commentary/federal-credit-unions-nonprofits-or-large-financial-conglomerates/): We need regulatory neutrality in treatment of credit unions.
- [Nauseating Government Theft](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/nauseating-government-theft/): Civil asset forfeiture is morally wrong.
- [Can Milei-ism Save the United Kingdom?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/can-milei-ism-save-the-united-kingdom/): The United Kingdom needs a dramatic change.
- [Red Tape and Unintended Consequences](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/red-tape-and-unintended-consequences/): How government regulations distort behavior.
- [A Grim Final Assessment of Bidenomics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/a-grim-final-assessment-of-bidenomics/): It was not impressive.
- [The United States vs. Europe, Part IV](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-united-states-vs-europe-part-iv/): We can learn very important lessons about economic policy from divergence.
- [Depressing Political Results from Argentina](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/depressing-political-results-from-argentina/): Local libertarians were hoping for more.
- [Whitewashing Zohran Mamdani’s Socialism at the New York Times](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/whitewashing-zohran-mamdanis-socialism-at-the-new-york-times/): When someone says they're socialist, believe them.
- [The 2025 Version of a “Sniveling and Despicable French Thief”](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-2025-version-of-a-sniveling-and-despicable-french-thief/): French politicians are complaining again about tax refugees.
- [Another Left-Wing Tax Hypocrite](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/uncategorized/another-left-wing-tax-hypocrite/): I can’t cheer for people who want higher taxes on others while aggressively protecting their own money.
- [A Debt Crisis for France?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/a-debt-crisis-for-france/): A fiscal meltdown may be on the horizon.
- [STCI 2025: Winners and Losers in State Tax Policy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/stci-2025-winners-and-losers-in-state-tax-policy/): which state has the nation's best tax system?
- [Since Upper-Income Taxpayers Finance the American Welfare State, Leftists Should Be Nice to Rich People, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/since-upper-income-taxpayers-finance-the-american-welfare-state-leftists-should-be-nice-to-rich-people-part-iii/): Folks on the left have to decide what matters most.
- [The Netherlands and the 20th Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-netherlands-and-the-20th-theorem-of-government/): The Netherlands is a rare positive case study.
- [Switzerland’s Superior Fiscal Discipline](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/switzerlands-superior-fiscal-discipline/): How does Switzerland’s prudence compare to Germany’s decline?
- [Germany and the 20th Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/germany-and-the-20th-theorem-of-government/): Maybe Merz has had an epiphany.
- [The Most Important Election(s) of 2025](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-most-important-elections-of-2025/): Milei’s party needs to get more votes than the Peronists
- [The Ongoing Tragedy of Cuban Socialism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-ongoing-tragedy-of-cuban-socialism/): Cuba’s experiment with socialism has been a disaster.
- [The Singapore Model, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-singapore-model-part-ii/): It may not be paradise, but it’s still very good by global standards.
- [Socialism from Republicans Is Just as Bad as Socialism from Democrats](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/socialism-from-republicans-is-just-as-bad-as-socialism-from-democrats/): The United States is traveling down a very misguided path.
- [Great Moments in Canadian Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/great-moments-in-canadian-government-3/): Is there a moral decline?
- [A Picture Says a Thousand Words about How the D.C. Swamp Profits from Protectionism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/a-picture-says-a-thousand-words-about-how-the-d-c-swamp-profits-from-protectionism/): A sickening level of corruption.
- [Oppressive European Tax Burdens](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/oppressive-european-tax-burdens/): Some of these numbers are horrifying.
- [Bolivia: Another Failure for Big Government and Socialism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/bolivia-another-failure-for-big-government-and-socialism/): Voters may be finally realizing that government is the problem.
- [Shrinking the State in Argentina](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/shrinking-the-state-in-argentina/): Milei has also been getting rid of bureaucrats.
- [Australia and the 20th Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/australia-and-the-20th-theorem-of-government/): Does Australia do a good job with fiscal policy?
- [Milei’s Achievements…and Challenges](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/mileis-achievementsand-challenges/): Milei inherited a grim situation in Argentina.
- [Australia's Superior Private Social Security System](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/australias-superior-private-social-security-system/): They're doing better.
- [Social Security and Factual Myths](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/social-security-and-factual-myths/): This was a disappointing contribution to the discussion.
- [Canada and the 20th Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/canada-and-the-20th-theorem-of-government/): The numbers are not good.
- [The Next Steps for Argentina’s Renaissance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-next-steps-for-argentinas-renaissance/): What still needs to be done.
- [Evidence from Arizona’s School Choice System: Competition Works in Education](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/evidence-from-arizonas-school-choice-system-competition-works-in-education/): School choice is working exactly as it should.
- [Trump, Trade, and Math](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/trump-trade-and-math/): New investments will mean a bigger "trade deficit"
- [More Fiscal Insanity from Chicago](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/more-fiscal-insanity-from-chicago/): Chicago is in a horribly misgoverned state and has America’s worst mayor.
- [A Small But Important Victory for Taxpayers](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/a-small-but-important-victory-for-taxpayers/): This is the feel-good story of 2025.
- [Trump, Trade, and the Economy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/trump-trade-and-the-economy/): Are the good Trump policies offsetting the bad?
- [The Laffer Curve Triumphs Again: Class Warfare in the United Kingdom Backfires](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-laffer-curve-triumphs-again-class-warfare-in-the-united-kingdom-backfires/): The government is actually losing money.
- [Josh Hawley’s Tariff Rebate: Wrong, but Honest](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/josh-hawleys-tariff-rebate-wrong-but-honest/): A top Trump ally wants a new handout to offset the damage to American families.
- [Is Milei Winning Hearts and Minds?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/is-milei-winning-hearts-and-minds/): Is he eroding support for bureaucracy and big government?
- [Milei Slashes Argentina’s Debt Burden](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/milei-slashes-argentinas-debt-burden/): Government debt has dramatically declined since he took office.
- [2025’s Counter-Tweet of the Year?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/2025s-counter-tweet-of-the-year-4/): Would stealing Elon Musk’s wealth solve world hunger?
- [OECD Pushes Welfare-State Policies on Thailand](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/oecd-pushes-welfare-state-policies-on-thailand/): The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development must have flunked Econ 101.
- [The “China Shock” and American Jobs](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-china-shock-and-american-jobs/): Did trade with China really wreak havoc?
- [Expanding the Milei Miracle: Trade Liberalization](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/expanding-the-milei-miracle-trade-liberalization/): Much more is needed.
- [Trump vs. Bureaucrats](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/trump-vs-bureaucrats/): Trump’s plan is not radical.
- [China and the 20th Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/china-and-the-20th-theorem-of-government/): Government spending has increased dramatically over the past 40-plus years.
- [Ranking European Paternalism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/ranking-european-paternalism/): Many politicians have decided they should tell people how to behave.
- [Comparing China to other Majority-Chinese Jurisdictions](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/comparing-china-to-other-majority-chinese-jurisdictions/): There’s an obvious lesson to learn.
- [World’s Most Biased Headline or World’s Most Misleading Headline?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/worlds-most-biased-headline-or-worlds-most-misleading-headline/): Was spending "slashed?"
- [Seattle’s Tax Experiment Backfires](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/seattles-tax-experiment-backfires/): We should be grateful for Seattle’s greedy and misguided lawmakers.
- [Expanding the Milei Miracle: Pro-Growth Tax Reform](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/expanding-the-milei-miracle-pro-growth-tax-reform/): Argentina needs better tax policy.
- [Exit Taxes: Immoral and Destructive](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/exit-taxes-immoral-and-destructive/): European politicians want this Soviet-style tax.
- [Expanding the Milei Miracle: Labor Market Deregulation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/expanding-the-milei-miracle-labor-market-deregulation/): Why Argentina needs labor market liberalization.
- [Debt Lessons from Greece](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/debt-lessons-from-greece/): Following this simple rule is paying off for Greece.
- [Great Moments in State Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/great-moments-in-state-government-4/): Is this the most absurd bit of government inefficiency?
- [Assessing OBBBA’s Provisions](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/assessing-obbbas-provisions/): Time for some details.
- [OBBBA’s Small Step to Federalism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/obbbas-small-step-to-federalism/): States should be deciding this.
- [Since Upper-Income Taxpayers Finance the American Welfare State, Leftists Should Be Nice to Rich People, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/since-upper-income-taxpayers-finance-the-american-welfare-state-leftists-should-be-nice-to-rich-people-part-ii/): Why shouldn't they be nice to the people making big government possible?
- [Is the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Worth Supporting?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/is-the-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-worth-supporting/): It is grotesquely disappointing.
- [Ohio Joins the Flat Tax Club](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/ohio-joins-the-flat-tax-club/): Ohio has been moving in the right direction over the past two decades.
- [Mamdani’s Suicide Note for New York City](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/mamdanis-suicide-note-for-new-york-city/): How many of his terrible ideas could actually happen?
- [2025’s Counter-Tweet of the Year?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/2025s-counter-tweet-of-the-year-3/): Have people not learned from enough leftists failures?
- [Another Contestant for Politician of the Year](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/uncategorized/another-contestant-for-politician-of-the-year/): Petty larceny with a twist.
- [Utah Ranks First (again) for State Competitiveness](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/utah-ranks-first-again-for-state-competitiveness/): Congratulations to the (again) winners.
- [Hungary’s Should-Be-Faster Convergence](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/hungarys-should-be-faster-convergence/): New data is not flattering.
- [Another Honest – but Economically Illiterate – Leftist](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/another-honest-but-economically-illiterate-leftist/): Is it worse to be evil and calculating or to be zealous and stupid?
- [What’s the Most Important Election of 2025?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/whats-the-most-important-election-of-2025/): Is a death tax coming to Switzerland?
- [La Deprimente Saga del Socialismo Cubano](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/latin-american-liberty/la-deprimente-saga-del-socialismo-cubano/): Cuba ha convertido la sátira en realidad.
- [EFW 2024: La libertad económica mundial sigue deteriorándose](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/latin-american-liberty/efw-2024-la-libertad-economica-mundial-sigue-deteriorandose/): Suceden cosas buenas cuando las personas toman sus propias decisiones económicas.
- [Evaluando a Javier Milei, el Mejor Líder del Mundo: Parte VI](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/latin-american-liberty/evaluando-a-javier-milei-el-mejor-lider-del-mundo-parte-vi/): Ya hay indicios de mejora económica.
- [Perspectivas Económicas de Uruguay](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/latin-american-liberty/perperspectivas-economicas-de-uruguay/): Los votantes uruguayos parecen tener opiniones sensatas sobre las pensiones.
- [Evaluando a Javier Milei, el Mejor Líder del Mundo: Parte VII](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/latin-american-liberty/evaluando-a-javier-milei-el-mejor-lider-del-mundo-parte-vii/): ¿Cómo les ha ido a los pobres con Milei?
- [Evaluando a Javier Milei, el Mejor Líder del Mundo: Parte V](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/latin-american-liberty/evaluando-a-javier-milei-el-mejor-lider-del-mundo-parte-v/): ¿Qué ocurre con la regulación?
- [Evaluando a Javier Milei, el Mejor Líder del Mundo: Parte IV](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/latin-american-liberty/evaluando-a-javier-milei-el-mejor-lider-del-mundo-parte-iv/): Siguen existiendo obstáculos importantes.
- [Americans Are Getting Richer, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/uncategorized/americans-are-getting-richer-part-iii/): Some on both the left and right want to dismiss this evidence, but here's why they are wrong.
- [Slowly Strangling the Death Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/slowly-strangling-the-death-tax/): The death tax could become less of a problem.
- [Assessing Javier Milei, the World’s Best Leader: Part X](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/assessing-javier-milei-the-worlds-best-leader-part-x/): Child poverty is dramatically declining.
- [Muffing a Gimme on Social Security](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/muffing-a-gimme-on-social-security/): What a huge missed opportunity.
- [Social Security’s $65.8 Trillion Problem](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/social-securitys-65-8-trillion-problem/): It will consume a larger and larger share of the economy’s output over time.
- [Iran’s Oppressive Economy and the Anti-Convergence Club](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/irans-oppressive-economy-and-the-anti-convergence-club/): Iran is one of the world’s most-statist countries.
- [Florida: A Role Model for Education](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/florida-a-role-model-for-education/): Competition means better educational outcomes.
- [Understanding Protectionism and Inflation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/understanding-protectionism-and-inflation/): MIlton Friedman was right.
- [Self-Destructive Class Warfare in the United Kingdom](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/self-destructive-class-warfare-in-the-united-kingdom/): Has there ever been a more foolish policy?
- [France and Fiscal Suicide: Part IV](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/france-and-fiscal-suicide-part-iv/): France is diverging, and not in a good way.
- [New York vs. Florida: Round #7](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/new-york-vs-florida-round-7/): It is foolish to have a loophole that makes it easier for states to impose higher taxes.
- [Solving the U.K. Budget Mess](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/solving-the-u-k-budget-mess/): British politicians are making things worse.
- [Mauritius Is an African Success Story…but Trending in the Wrong Direction](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/mauritius-is-an-african-success-storybut-trending-in-the-wrong-direction/): Has economic freedom worked for Mauritius?
- [The Political Impact of Protectionism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-political-impact-of-protectionism/): Protectionism is a political loser.
- [Columnist at the Washington Post Lies About Poverty…Again](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/columnist-at-the-washington-post-lies-about-povertyagain/): This chart is dishonest nonsense.
- [Everything You Need to Know about Government, in a Single Story](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/everything-you-need-to-know-about-government-in-a-single-story-2/): Why are these cities wasting money in such an absurd way?
- [Demographic Change and Fiscal Crisis, Part V](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/demographic-change-and-fiscal-crisis-part-v/): Some new – and very depressing – evidence.
- [What Can Be Learned from the Republican Spending Orgy in Texas?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/what-can-be-learned-from-the-republican-spending-orgy-in-texas/): They're missing this key policy.
- [A Course-Correction on Antitrust](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/opinion-and-commentary/a-course-correction-on-antitrust/): This article appeared at FEE.
- [Denmark and the Golden Rule Club](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/denmark-and-the-golden-rule-club/): They've let the private sector grow faster than government.
- [Celebrating Sclerosis in California](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/celebrating-sclerosis-in-california/): They're not rebuilding.
- [A Great Libertarian Legal Victory](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/a-great-libertarian-legal-victory/): The US Court of International Trade delivers a blow to Trump's tariffs.
- [The Case for School Choice, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-case-for-school-choice-part-ii/): More evidence that school choice is the way to help students learn more and perform better.
- [The Case for School Choice, Part I](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-case-for-school-choice-part-i/): The biggest argument for school choice is improved educational outcomes, but there are other benefits.
- [Ronald Reagan and the 13th Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/ronald-reagan-and-the-13th-theorem-of-government/): People like goodies from government...until they're asked to pay for them.
- [2025’s Counter-Tweet of the Year?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/2025s-counter-tweet-of-the-year-2/): A devastating response to socialist claims.
- [The United States and Argentina: Divergence Followed by Convergence?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-united-states-and-argentina-divergence-followed-by-convergence/): Could changing fortunes in Argentina and the US close this gap?
- [The Looming Trump/GOP Tax Hike](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-looming-trump-gop-tax-hike/): Failure to address this will inevitably lead to tax increases.
- [Decentralize the Welfare State](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/decentralize-the-welfare-state/): We need entitlement reform.
- [White House Victim-Blaming on Higher Prices](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/white-house-victim-blaming-on-higher-prices/): When politicians do things that raise costs, someone is going to get hurt.
- [What Nation Has the Most School Choice?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/what-nation-has-the-most-school-choice/): The US is showing fast improvement.
- [Javier Milei and the Fourth Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/javier-milei-and-the-fourth-theorem-of-government/): The real test is yet to come.
- [Implications of Washington’s Spending and Debt Binge](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/implications-of-washingtons-spending-and-debt-binge/): Doing this would be a huge mistake.
- [Continuing Fiscal Decay in the United Kingdom](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/continuing-fiscal-decay-in-the-united-kingdom/): Quantify bipartisan profligacy.
- [Calculating America’s Lead over Europe](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/calculating-americas-lead-over-europe/): How far ahead is the US?
- [RINO Alert: Missouri Senator Josh Hawley Wants Big Tax Increases on Working-Class Americans](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/rino-alert-missouri-senator-josh-hawley-wants-big-tax-increases-on-working-class-americans/): His head-in-the-sand approach to entitlements is a recipe for massive tax hikes.
- [Austria’s Fiscal Deterioration](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/austrias-fiscal-deterioration/): This is a recipe for economic stagnation.
- [The Pope vs. the IRS](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-pope-vs-the-irs/): An American Pope has some major tax implications.
- [The Economic Consequences of Ever-Growing Government in Finland](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-economic-consequences-of-ever-growing-government-in-finland/): Why is Finland stagnating?
- [Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Is the United States the Most Free Trade of All?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-is-the-united-states-the-most-free-trade-of-all/): Is it really true that the US is taken advantage of?
- [Estonia’s Transition from Socialist Misery to Free-Market Prosperity, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/estonias-transition-from-socialist-misery-to-free-market-prosperity-part-iii/): How is the rebound from communism going?
- [Yes to Globalization, No to Global Governance, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/yes-to-globalization-no-to-global-governance-part-iii/): Global governance is the threat.
- [El caso contra la Ocde](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/latin-american-liberty/el-caso-contra-la-ocde/): la OCDE ha pasado de ser una organización que busca abrir mercados y facilitar la competencia a una burocracia que trabaja para apuntalar los sistemas fiscales ineficientes y poco competitivos de sus países miembros más poderosos.
- [Telling the Truth about Trump’s New Budget](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/telling-the-truth-about-trumps-new-budget/): Unfortunately, the panic over big cuts is unfounded.
- [Part II: What’s the Better Role Model, France or Switzerland?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/part-ii-whats-the-better-role-model-france-or-switzerland/): There's a jaw-dropping difference
- [Trump’s Blind Spot on Trade](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/trumps-blind-spot-on-trade/): He doesn't understand this issue.
- [Protectionism Means Cronyism, Sleaze, and Corruption](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/protectionism-means-cronyism-sleaze-and-corruption/): Trump’s protectionism is creating a feeding frenzy for Washington insiders.
- [Taxes and Incentives: The Italian Version](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/taxes-and-incentives-the-italian-version/): Politicians understand tax policy when they want to, but forget it when convenient.
- [Bipartisan Economic Illiteracy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/bipartisan-economic-illiteracy/): New developments illustrate the willful ignorance of politicians.
- [There’s a Good Argument for Trump’s Tariff Plan. Unfortunately, He Can’t Make It](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/opinion-and-commentary/theres-a-good-argument-for-trumps-tariff-plan-unfortunately-he-cant-make-it/): This article appeared in the Telegraph.
- [Congress Claps Back at Biden’s 'Junk Fee' Crusade](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/opinion-and-commentary/congress-claps-back-at-bidens-junk-fee-crusade/): This article appeared at The Blaze.
- [Red Tape, Part I: The Size of the Regulatory State](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/red-tape-part-i-the-size-of-the-regulatory-state/): Americans are paying a lot for our red-tape obstacle course.
- [Socialism Is an Economic Cancer](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/socialism-is-an-economic-cancer/): Developing nations that adopt socialism give up serious growth.
- [Greece and the 20th Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/greece-and-the-20th-theorem-of-government/): Greece is now an example of fiscal rectitude?!
- [2025’s Counter-Tweet of the Year?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/2025s-counter-tweet-of-the-year/): Shocking: a mostly free economy produces better results than a mostly unfree economy.
- [Improved Data on Ronald Reagan’s Fiscal Performance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/improved-data-on-ronald-reagans-fiscal-performance/): Reagan did a remarkable job of restraining the size and growth of the federal government.
- [Don’t Make it Easier for the Fed to Have Bad Monetary Policy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/dont-make-it-easier-for-the-fed-to-have-bad-monetary-policy/): It’s possible to make a bad situation even worse.
- [Is there a Silver Lining to Trump’s Protectionism?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/is-there-a-silver-lining-to-trumps-protectionism/): Could Trump's awful protectionism make people more favorable to trade?
- [Texas Expands the Feel-Good Map of 2025](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/texas-expands-the-feel-good-map-of-2025/): Important education developments in the Lone Star State.
- [Fiscal Fights with Friends: We Don’t Need Two Class-Warfare Political Parties](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/fiscal-fights-with-friends-we-dont-need-two-class-warfare-political-parties/): Some supposed conservatives are urging Republicans to pursue class-warfare tax policy.
- [Understanding the Limits of DOGE](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/understanding-the-limits-of-doge/): The budgetary impact is not very encouraging.
- [Mississippi Repeals its State Income Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/mississippi-repeals-its-state-income-tax/): Is a new state about to join the no-income-tax club for the first time in decades?
- [Showerhead Liberation Day](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/showerhead-liberation-day/): American consumers will once again have the freedom to purchase working shower heads.
- [The 20th Theorem of Government and the Consequences of Fiscal Foolishness in the State of Washington](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-20th-theorem-of-government-and-the-consequences-of-fiscal-foolishness-in-the-state-of-washington/): The geese who lay the golden eggs flee to Las Vegas.
- [Tax Loophole Madness](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/tax-loophole-madness/): These are the breeding ground for corruption.
- [The Conservative Argument Against Foreign Aid and the Libertarian Argument Against Foreign Aid](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-conservative-argument-against-foreign-aid-and-the-libertarian-argument-against-foreign-aid/): Small-government conservatives have always shared libertarian suspicions about the efficacy of foreign aid.
- [Exceptions to Free Trade Orthodoxy?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/exceptions-to-free-trade-orthodoxy/): Three potential reasons to restrict trade.
- [Brazil’s Reckless Fiscal Trajectory](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/brazils-reckless-fiscal-trajectory/): Government spending is becoming a much bigger problem.
- [Six Visuals to Understand Trump’s Suicidal Tax Increase on Trade](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/six-visuals-to-understand-trumps-suicidal-tax-increase-on-trade/): Trump’s masochistic trade policy is overwhelming rejected by the American people.
- [Trade Deficit Illiteracy, Part I](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/trade-deficit-illiteracy-part-i/): It's good that foreigners want to invest in the American economy.
- [Milei-Style Liberalization or Trump-Style Protectionism?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/milei-style-liberalization-or-trump-style-protectionism/): One of them wants to do the right thing.
- [The 2025 Version of America’s Dismal Fiscal Future](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-2025-version-of-americas-dismal-fiscal-future/): Three charts that should worry every America
- [Protectionism and the Great Depression](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/protectionism-and-the-great-depression/): Protectionism wasn't the only reason for the Great Depression, but it played a big role.
- [Fiscal Policy in the United Kingdom: Profligacy, Dishonesty, and Dependency](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/fiscal-policy-in-the-united-kingdom-profligacy-dishonesty-and-dependency/): A jaw dropping report.
- [Texas vs. California, Part IX](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/texas-vs-california-part-ix/): Comparing job growth.
- [How to (Really) Get Rid of the Department of Education](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/how-to-really-get-rid-of-the-department-of-education/): Is there any actual intention for reducing federal government spending and intervention?
- [Coalition to President Trump: Provide Tax Relief and Regulatory Reform to Grow Economy, Not Broad-Based Tariffs](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/letters/coalition-to-president-trump-provide-tax-relief-and-regulatory-reform-to-grow-economy-not-broad-based-tariffs/): Coalition asks for bold action to reduce burdens on businesses and workers to sustain economic momentum.
- [Coalition to Congress: Don't Restrict Retail Investors](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2021/letters/coalition-to-congress-dont-restrict-retail-investors/): Coalition calls on Congress to ensure equal access to trading markets.
- [Bureaucracy of the Year?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/bureaucracy-of-the-year/): This agency exists solely for the benefit of employees.
- [The Expensive Quicksand of Red Tape](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-expensive-quicksand-of-red-tape/): The federal government is not the only problem.
- [Economic Freedom and Broadly Shared Prosperity](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/economic-freedom-and-broadly-shared-prosperity/): Policymakers should focus on growth rather than inequality or redistribution.
- [Removing a Subsidy Is Not an Attack](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/removing-a-subsidy-is-not-an-attack/): Higher Ed is losing handouts and subsidies.
- [Trade and National Prosperity](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/trade-and-national-prosperity/): Americans have become amazingly richer.
- [The Education Racket](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-education-racket/): There’s been a giant increase in the number of education bureaucrats.
- [Advice for DOGE: Terminate Funding for Government-Subsidized Media](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/advice-for-doge-terminate-funding-for-government-subsidized-media/): There’s no reason to have government media outlets.
- [The Biden Tax Avoidance Strategy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-biden-tax-avoidance-strategy/): There's nothing wrong with legally striving to keep income out of the grasping hand of government.
- [Bipartisan Illiteracy: Price Controls on Credit Card Interest Rates](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/bipartisan-illiteracy-price-controls-on-credit-card-interest-rates/): Economic illiteracy is bipartisan.
- [Trump’s Tariffs and the Income Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/trumps-tariffs-and-the-income-tax/): Knowing math means knowing this plan is absurd. But there's still one way to eliminate income taxes.
- [Advice for DOGE: No More Subsidies for the Paris-Based OECD](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/advice-for-doge-no-more-subsidies-for-the-paris-based-oecd/): These subsidies should have been eliminated decades ago.
- [The United States vs. Europe, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-united-states-vs-europe-part-iii/): Fresh evidence against Europe’s redistributionist model.
- [Assessing Javier Milei, the World’s Best Leader: Part IX](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/assessing-javier-milei-the-worlds-best-leader-part-ix/): I only share longer videos when there are very important points to be made (such as the rise and decline of New York City or Trump’s foolish protectionism). But I hope people will be patient enough to watch this 29-minute video. I’m a Milei fan because he has done exactly what is needed, which is to dramatically slash
- [Anti-Economics from the Economist](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/anti-economics-from-the-economist-3/): Germany is opting for bigger government.
- [The Biggest Threat to Trump’s Growth Agenda…Is Trump’s Self-Sabotaging Trade Taxes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-biggest-threat-to-trumps-growth-agendais-trumps-self-sabotaging-trade-taxes/): Does he not understand or not care?
- [Trump FTC Must Stop Biden’s Prescription Drug Madness](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/opinion-and-commentary/trump-ftc-must-stop-bidens-prescription-drug-madness/): This article appeared on American Thinker.
- [The United States is suddenly in big trouble](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/opinion-and-commentary/the-united-states-is-suddenly-in-big-trouble/): This article appeared in the Telegraph.
- [What’s More Preposterous, a Sovereign Wealth Fund or a Strategic Crypto Reserve?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/whats-more-preposterous-a-sovereign-wealth-fund-or-a-strategic-crypto-reserve/): Washington is running annual deficits of nearly $2 trillion.
- [Bureaucrats Against Bambi, Part V](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/bureaucrats-against-bambi-part-v/): Maybe local governments should concentrate on real issues?
- [Taxation Changes Behavior…and History](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/taxation-changes-behaviorand-history/): Taxpayer unrest can have a profound impact.
- [The Case Against Socialism, Part IV](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-case-against-socialism-part-iv/): A slam-dunk argument for more economic liberty and less socialism.
- [What Is “Cherry Picking”?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/what-is-cherry-picking/): Numbers have to be trusted to be persuasive.
- [Evaluando a Javier Milei, el Mejor Líder del Mundo: Parte I](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/latin-american-liberty/evaluando-a-javier-milei-el-mejor-lider-del-mundo-parte-i/): ¿Cómo le está yendo al único líder libertario del mundo después de un año?
- [Evaluando a Javier Milei, el Mejor Líder del Mundo: Parte II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/latin-american-liberty/evaluando-a-javier-milei-el-mejor-lider-del-mundo-parte-ii/): ¿Puede Argentina convertirse en la economía más libre del mundo?
- [Evaluando a Javier Milei, el Mejor Líder del Mundo: Parte III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/latin-american-liberty/evaluando-a-javier-milei-el-mejor-lider-del-mundo-parte-iii/): Milei ha motosierrado el presupuesto.
- [Brasil y el 20.º Teorema del Gobierno](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/latin-american-liberty/brasil-y-el-20-o-teorema-del-gobierno/): Brasil podría estar creando las condiciones para una crisis fiscal.
- [Los Economistas de Izquierda Estaban Terriblemente Equivocados sobre Javier Milei y su Agenda Libertaria para Argentina](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/latin-american-liberty/los-economistas-de-izquierda-estaban-terriblemente-equivocados-sobre-javier-milei-y-su-agenda-libertaria-para-argentina/): ¿Algún grupo de personas ha estado más equivocado sobre algo alguna vez?
- [La OCDE Promueve Políticas de Izquierda en Chile](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/latin-american-liberty/la-ocde-promueve-politicas-de-izquierda-en-chile/): Ellos ni siquiera ocultan esta agenda estatista.
- [Trump’s Cash-for-Citizenship Plan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/trumps-cash-for-citizenship-plan/): Trump's proposal is a step in the right direction.
- [Trump’s Costly De Minimis Trade Gambit](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/trumps-costly-de-minimis-trade-gambit/): Sometimes the damage of protectionism is very obvious.
- [Washington Post Hypocrisy?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/washington-post-hypocrisy/): Why is the newspaper suddenly in favor of deficit reduction?
- [Advice for DOGE: Curtail Record Welfare Spending in Washington](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/advice-for-doge-curtail-record-welfare-spending-in-washington/): The burden of redistribution is expanding.
- [What Country Has the Best System of Health Care?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/what-country-has-the-best-system-of-health-care/): The US is in last place in a crucial category.
- [Part IV: Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Which States Provide the Most Handouts of All?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/part-iv-mirror-mirror-on-the-wall-which-states-provide-the-most-handouts-of-all/): Welfare benefits beat starting wages.
- [Advice for DOGE: Privatize Air Traffic Control](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/advice-for-doge-privatize-air-traffic-control/): The clear way to maximize safety and minimize costs.
- [New York City and the Sixteenth Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/new-york-city-and-the-sixteenth-theorem-of-government/): New York City became rich because of capitalism.
- [Celebrating Educational Progress in Arizona…and Beyond](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/celebrating-educational-progress-in-arizonaand-beyond/): There's been a big jump in recent years.
- [California’s Slow and Steady Fiscal Death](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/californias-slow-and-steady-fiscal-death/): Are taxpayers like mistreated dogs?
- [Can America’s Unluckiest Residents Escape Illinois without Moving?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/can-americas-unluckiest-residents-escape-illinois-without-moving/): Time to talk about secession?
- [France and Fiscal Suicide, Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/france-and-fiscal-suicide-part-iii/): The consequences of France’s suffocating statism.
- [The Recipe for a Syrian Economic Renaissance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-recipe-for-a-syrian-economic-renaissance/): Creating prosperity for Syria
- [Demographic Change and Fiscal Crisis, Part IV](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/demographic-change-and-fiscal-crisis-part-iv/): Quadrillions?!?
- [Europe’s Suicidal Green New Deal](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/europes-suicidal-green-new-deal/): They focused on making energy more expensive.
- [More Money =/= Better Education: Part IV](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/more-money-better-education-part-iv/): Taxes go to bureaucrats and student performance is flat.
- [Goldilocks and the Laffer Curve](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/goldilocks-and-the-laffer-curve/): Republicans may be greatly exaggerating the benefits of extending the Trump tax cuts.
- [Trade 101 for Trumpies](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/trade-101-for-trumpies/): Why protectionism is a net job destroyer.
- [Happy Birthday, Ronald Reagan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/happy-birthday-ronald-reagan/): No wonder Reaganomics was successful.
- [The United States vs. Europe](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-united-states-vs-europe-2/): They're falling even further behind.
- [Should Surrogate Pregnancies Be Legal?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/uncategorized/should-surrogate-pregnancies-be-legal/): Adults should be able to make their own decisions on what’s best.
- [Revolt of the Irish Tax Slaves](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2012/blog/big-government/revolt-of-the-irish-tax-slaves/): I wrote last year about a backlash from long-suffering Greek taxpayers. These people – the ones pulling the wagon rather than riding in the wagon – are being raped and pillaged by a political class that is trying to protect the greedy interest groups that benefit from Greece’s bloated public sector. We now have another
- [Amazing Chutzpah – and Cluelessness – from the Obama Administration](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/blog/uncategorized/amazing-chutzpah-and-cluelessness-from-the-obama-administration/): The Obama administration throws boulders at ISIS from its glass house.
- [Immigration, Populism, and the 21st Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/immigration-populism-and-the-21st-theorem-of-government/): Right-of-center parties need to make this adjustment.
- [More Self-Sabotaging Trade Taxes from Trump](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/more-self-sabotaging-trade-taxes-from-trump/): Trump’s knee-jerk protectionism is misguide
- [The Feel-Good Map of 2025](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/the-feel-good-map-of-2025/): Congratulations to the Sunshine State.
- [Russia and (Non-Existent) Shock Therapy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/russia-and-non-existent-shock-therapy/): Russia never had a period of radical free-market reforms
- [Assessing Javier Milei, the World’s Best Leader: Part VIII](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/assessing-javier-milei-the-worlds-best-leader-part-viii/): Is it a surprise how quickly we're seeing results?
- [Maryland and the 20th Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/maryland-and-the-20th-theorem-of-government/): Maryland’s governor wants a big class-warfare tax increase.
- [Ireland: Good Corporate Tax Policy vs. Bad Government Spending Policy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/ireland-good-corporate-tax-policy-vs-bad-government-spending-policy/): There's one major problem for Ireland.
- [It Is Good that Trump Will Increase the Trade Deficit](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/it-is-good-that-trump-will-increase-the-trade-deficit/): This is a non-controversial accounting identity.
- [Germany Incentivizes Sickness by Subsidizing Sick Days](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/germany-incentivizes-sickness-by-subsidizing-sick-days/): This policy is creating perverse incentives and undermining national prosperity.
- [Cronyism Is Bad, Regardless of Which Party Is in Charge](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/cronyism-is-bad-regardless-of-which-party-is-in-charge/): The right approach is to be pro-market, not pro-business.
- [Six Astounding Examples of Left-Wing Hypocrisy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2014/blog/six-astounding-examples-of-left-wing-hypocrisy/): A festival of statist hypocrisy
- [Time to Fight Statism by Shutting Down the G-20](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2012/blog/time-to-fight-statism-by-shutting-down-the-g-20/): These soirees are more than just money-wasting junkets.
- [A Libertarian Paradise in…Mexico?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2018/blog/uncategorized/a-libertarian-paradise-inmexico/): The Mexican government is a grim example of the “stationary bandit” in action.
- [Assurances on Destructive IRS Regulation Fall Short](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2012/blog/big-government/assurances-on-destructive-irs-regulation-fall-short/): Secretary Geithner offered little more than 'you can trust us' to assuage concerns.
- [Donald Trump Should Thank Jerome Powell](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/donald-trump-should-thank-jerome-powell/): Why did Donald Trump win on Tuesday?
- [The Dismal Record of Obamanomics Exposed By New CF&P “Economics 101” Video](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2012/news/press-releases/the-dismal-record-of-obamanomics-economics-101-video/): The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) released today its latest "Economics 101" video. Entitled, “Obamanomics: The Dismal Record,” the video explains how the President’s policies have caused a very anemic recovery, and contrasts the failed statism of Obamanomics with the successful policies of Reaganomics.
- [In a Battle Between the IMF and Greece, I Want Both Sides to Lose](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2012/blog/big-government/in-a-battle-between-the-imf-and-greece-i-want-both-sides-to-lose/): “A pox on both your houses.”
- [Resisting an Art Sellout in Bankrupt Detroit](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2014/opinion-and-commentary/resisting-an-art-sellout-in-bankrupt-detroit/): This article appeared in The Washington Times.
- [Republican Budget Games: The Simple Recipe for Fiscal Balance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/republican-budget-games-the-simple-recipe-for-fiscal-balance/): The CBO's latest 10-year estimate affirms the need for spending restraint.
- [Suicidal Tax Policy in the United Kingdom](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/suicidal-tax-policy-in-the-united-kingdom/): Labour Party politicians seem determined to drive successful people out of the country.
- [Will Vietnam Become the Next Asian Tiger?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/will-vietnam-become-the-next-asian-tiger/): Even communists want to cut government now?
- [The OECD Pushes Leftist Policy in Chile](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/the-oecd-pushes-leftist-policy-in-chile/): They don’t even hide this statist agenda.
- [Republican Budget Games: Will They Join Democrats to Punt the Debt Limit?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/republican-budget-games-will-they-join-democrats-to-punt-the-debt-limit/): The campaign to get rid of the debt limit has created unusual alliances.
- [Three Cheers for Private Firefighters](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/three-cheers-for-private-firefighters/): Some crazy people get upset when individual property owners use private fire services.
- [Margaret Thatcher, Michael Curley, and the 19th Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/margaret-thatcher-michael-curley-and-the-19th-theorem-of-government/): Democrats may regret this approach in the long run.
- [Trump Prioritizes Consumers Over Trial Lawyers By Squashing CFPB Arbitration Rule](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2017/opinion-and-commentary/trump-prioritizes-consumers-over-trial-lawyers-by-squashing-cfpb-arbitration-rule/): This article appeared on Townhall.com.
- [The TSA: A Perfect Symbol of the Federal Government’s Waste and Incompetence](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2015/blog/big-government/the-tsa-a-perfect-symbol-of-the-federal-governments-waste-and-incompetence/): More examples of the Keystone Cops in action.
- [Left-Wing Economists Were Wildly Wrong about Javier Milei and his Libertarian Agenda for Argentina](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/left-wing-economists-were-wildly-wrong-about-javier-milei-and-his-libertarian-agenda-for-argentina/): Has any group of people ever been more wrong about anything?
- [New York vs. Florida, Round #6](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/new-york-vs-florida-round-6/): Even establishment journalists have begun to notice what's happening.
- [Government Failure in Africa](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/government-failure-in-africa/): There's only one approach that has ever turned poor countries into rich countries.
- [A Parting Insult to American Households from Joe Biden](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/a-parting-insult-to-american-households-from-joe-biden/): Joe Biden is trying to make a bad situation even worse.
- [Good Riddance, Justin Trudeau](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/good-riddance-justin-trudeau/): His Canada fell behind.
- [More Americans Voting with their Feet for Lower Taxes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/more-americans-voting-with-their-feet-for-lower-taxes/): Those losing population are some of the country’s worst tax-and-spenders.
- [Republican Budget Games: Dealing with Unauthorized Spending](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/republican-budget-games-dealing-with-unauthorized-spending/): How much does this really matter?
- [Republican Budget Games](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/republican-budget-games/): How will Trump fit a size-18 fiscal agenda into a size-4 outfit?
- [Brazil and the 20th Theorem of Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/brazil-and-the-20th-theorem-of-government/): Brazil may be creating the conditions for a fiscal crisis.
- [In One Chart, Everything You Need to Know about America’s Fiscal Mess](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/big-government/in-one-chart-everything-you-need-to-know-about-americas-fiscal-mess/): Can we get back to this pre-pandemic trend?
- [Hopes and Fears for 2025](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2025/blog/hopes-and-fears-for-2025/): What can we expect in the year ahead?
- [The Best and Worst News of 2024](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/the-best-and-worst-news-of-2024/): Evaluating what happened this year.
- [Ranking Jimmy Carter: Perhaps a Good Man, But Not a Good President](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/ranking-jimmy-carter-perhaps-a-good-man-but-not-a-good-president/): He did at least have some good policies.
- [The Miracle of Compounding Growth, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/the-miracle-of-compounding-growth-part-ii/): Why economic growth is important.
- [Americans Are Getting Richer, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/americans-are-getting-richer-part-ii/): The economy actually is innovating faster than government can suffocate it.
- [Scandinavian Governments Are Greedy, not Socialist](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/scandinavian-governments-are-greedy-not-socialist/): Who gets hardest by income taxes?
- [A Last-Minute Contestant for Politician of the Year](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/uncategorized/a-last-minute-contestant-for-politician-of-the-year/): This official does nothing.
- [Which State Has the Most OPEB Debt of All?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/which-state-has-the-most-opeb-debt-of-all/): "Other Post-Employment Benefits" include health care and life insurance.
- [Which State Has the Most Pension Debt?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/which-state-has-the-most-pension-debt-of-all/): States with Defined Benefit systems are most at risk.
- [Which City Has the Most Pension Debt?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/which-city-has-the-most-pension-debt-of-all/): Cities don't want to be on this list.
- [A Second Edition of Trump: A Very Grim Indicator of Ever-Bigger Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/a-second-edition-of-trump-a-very-grim-indicator-of-ever-bigger-government/): We already have a very worrisome sign.
- [Assessing Javier Milei, the World’s Best Leader: Part VII](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/assessing-javier-milei-the-worlds-best-leader-part-vii/): Poverty is now on a downward trajectory.
- [HFI24: Switzerland Stays Number One](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/hfi24-switzerland-stays-number-one/): The US is just decent.
- [Academic Research Estimating the Laffer Curve](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/academic-research-estimating-the-laffer-curve/): The goal should be to set tax rates at the growth-maximizing level, but this is still instructive.
- [Healthcare, Government, and Insurance Companies](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/healthcare-government-and-insurance-companies/): The industry as a whole is not very successful at gouging consumers.
- [The Case for Capitalism, Part VII](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/the-case-for-capitalism-part-vii/): We've evolved past zero-sum.
- [Great News on Social Security Reform*](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/great-news-on-social-security-reform/): Something big eventually will have to happen.
- [Is Big Government Popular?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/is-big-government-popular/): People say they want a big welfare state, but there's a catch.
- [Part II: Jobs, Taxes, Trade, and Trump](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/part-ii-jobs-taxes-trade-and-trump/): Unfortunately, Donald Trump is clueless on trade.
- [France and Fiscal Suicide, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/france-and-fiscal-suicide-part-ii/): France is in the midst of a crisis.
- [Assessing Javier Milei, the World’s Best Leader: Part VI](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/assessing-javier-milei-the-worlds-best-leader-part-vi/): Is there already evidence of improvement?
- [The OECD Pushes Higher Taxes for High-Tax Greece](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/the-oecd-pushes-higher-taxes-for-high-tax-greece/): Has anything changed?
- [In a Single Tweet, Everything You Need to Know about the Federal Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/in-a-single-tweet-everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-federal-government/): Does USPS operate for benefit of customers or employees?
- [The Worst Statistics from America’s Worst City?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/the-worst-statistics-from-americas-worst-city/): These union demands are shameless
- [Louisiana Joins the Flat Tax Club](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/louisiana-joins-the-flat-tax-club/): Even more progress in the state tax cutting revolution
- [Part I: Jobs, Taxes, Trade, and Trump](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/part-i-jobs-taxes-trade-and-trump/): Creative destruction is a dynamic and beneficial force
- [EFNA 2024: Congratulations (again) to New Hampshire](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/efna-2024-congratulations-again-to-new-hampshire/): And the worst states are hardly a surprise
- [Advice for DOGE: Fiscal Federalism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/advice-for-doge-fiscal-federalism/): In a triumph of hope over experience, let’s make some suggestions for DOGE.
- [Kamala Harris’ Class War Tax Plan is so Stupid It’s Dangerous](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/opinion-and-commentary/kamala-harris-class-war-tax-plan-is-so-stupid-its-dangerous/): This article appeared in The Telegraph.
- [Paul Krugman Is Right…albeit Selectively and Hypocritically](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/paul-krugman-is-rightalbeit-selectively-and-hypocritically/): His concern about corruption is very inconsistent.
- [Assessing Javier Milei, the World’s Best Leader: Part V](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/assessing-javier-milei-the-worlds-best-leader-part-v/): He's cutting through red tape.
- [Understanding Consumer Spending and the Economy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/uncategorized/understanding-consumer-spending-and-the-economy/): It would be nice to debunk Keynesianism once and for all.
- [Assessing Javier Milei, the World’s Best Leader: Part IV](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/assessing-javier-milei-the-worlds-best-leader-part-iv/): There are still some major obstacles.
- [Assessing Javier Milei, the World’s Best Leader: Part III](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/assessing-javier-milei-the-worlds-best-leader-part-iii/): Milei has taken a chainsaw to the budget.
- [Assessing Javier Milei, the World’s Best Leader: Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/assessing-javier-milei-the-worlds-best-leader-part-ii/): Can Argentina become the world's freest economy?
- [Assessing Javier Milei, the World’s Best Leader: Part I](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/assessing-javier-milei-the-worlds-best-leader-part-i/): How's the world's only libertarian leader doing after one year?
- [A Second Edition of Trump: Will He Join with the Radical Left to Impose Price Controls?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/a-second-edition-of-trump-will-he-join-with-the-radical-left-to-impose-price-controls/): An unfortunate example of bipartisanship developing in Washington.
- [Government Intervention and (Convincing People about) the Unintended Consequences of Good Intentions](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/government-intervention-and-convincing-people-about-the-unintended-consequences-of-good-intentions/): This is an uphill challenge.
- [Federal Tax Burdens by Income Group](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/federal-tax-burdens-by-income-group/): Surveying some data before the next major tax policy battle.
- [Uruguay’s Economic Outlook](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/uruguays-economic-outlook/): Uruguay is not a rich country, but it gets some things right.
- [Blame Washington for the Great Depression, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/blame-washington-for-the-great-depression-part-ii/): The Hoover-Roosevelt policies were a failure that deepened and lengthened the Great Depression.
- [A Sincerity Test for the United Nations](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/uncategorized/a-sincerity-test-for-the-united-nations/): Will it actually behave like it believes global warming is real?
- [Socialism: Evil and Stupid](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/socialism-evil-and-stupid-2/): Norway suffers from atrocious tax policy.
- [A Second Edition of Trump: Will He Be the Second Edition of Herbert Hoover?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/a-second-edition-of-trump-will-he-be-the-second-edition-of-herbert-hoover/): Could Trump be far worse on trade than his first term?
- [The IMF’s Fairy-Dust Economic Policy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/the-imfs-fairy-dust-economic-policy/): The IMF is once again peddling nonsense.
- [A Second Edition of Trump: Can He Win the War on Red Tape?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/a-second-edition-of-trump-can-he-win-the-war-on-red-tape/): Trump was largely good on red tape in his first term.
- [A Second Edition of Trump: What Is the Likely Impact of the Musk-Ramaswamy “Department of Government Efficiency”?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/a-second-edition-of-trump-what-is-the-likely-impact-of-the-musk-ramaswamy-department-of-government-efficiency/): Boldness is appreciated, even if some of the ideas are impractical.
- [A Second Edition of Trump: Will He Control Government Spending?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/a-second-edition-of-trump-will-he-control-government-spending/): If he wants better performance in his second term, he should embrace a spending cap.
- [A Second Edition of Trump: Will He Reduce the Number of Bureaucrats?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/a-second-edition-of-trump-will-he-reduce-the-number-of-bureaucrats/): Trump will have to restrain government if he wants to restrain bureaucracy.
- [More Evidence for the TABOR Spending Cap](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/more-evidence-for-the-tabor-spending-cap/): Politicians were prevented from spending a lot of money.
- [Did Americans Vote for More Freedom or Less Freedom?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/did-americans-vote-for-more-freedom-or-less-freedom/): What happened in the five most important ballot initiatives of 2024.
- [Trump, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/trump-part-ii/): The potential policy implications of yesterday’s elections.
- [Government: Bloated but Fixable](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/government-bloated-but-fixable/): America has a major fiscal problem!
- [The Five Most Important Ballot Initiatives of 2024](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/uncategorized/the-five-most-important-ballot-initiatives-of-2024/): These initiatives often provide clear-cut choices between more freedom and more statism.
- [More Spending =/= Better Education](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/more-spending-better-education/): More government spending does not produce better educational outcomes.
- [Fiscal Dishonesty or Fiscal Insanity?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/fiscal-dishonesty-or-fiscal-insanity/): A preposterous claim about the needs of developing nations.
- [Vice President Harris and Knee-Jerk Interventionism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/vice-president-harris-and-knee-jerk-interventionism/): She has statist inclinations on issues big and small.
- [The Vice President’s Radical Plan to Tax Unrealized Capital Gains](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/the-vice-presidents-radical-plan-to-tax-unrealized-capital-gains/): This is breathtakingly bad.
- [Pro-Market Republicans Debunk Trump’s Protectionism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/pro-market-republicans-debunk-trumps-protectionism/): It should be obvious that being pro-trade is more conducive to prosperity
- [What Does Oakland Teach Us about Leftist Policies?](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/what-does-oakland-teach-us-about-leftist-policies/): People want decent governance for a decent price.
- [Understanding the Anti-Market Ideology of Fascism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/understanding-the-anti-market-ideology-of-fascism/): Government is the all-important entity for fascists.
- [The Adverse Economic Consequences of Big-Government Populism, Part II](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/big-government/the-adverse-economic-consequences-of-big-government-populism-part-ii/): Markets struggle under populists.
- [The IMF: Usually Wrong, Sometimes Right, Reliably Wrong](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/the-imf-usually-wrong-sometimes-right-reliably-wrong/): There are good reasons why IMF predictions should be ignored.
- [The 2024 International Tax Competitiveness Index](https://freedomandprosperity.org/2024/blog/the-2024-international-tax-competitiveness-index/): Some (modest) happy news for Americans.

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- [IRS](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/irs/)
- [tax code](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-code/)
- [compliance costs](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/compliance-costs/)
- [deficits](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/deficits/)
- [debt](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/debt/)
- [government spending](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/government-spending/)
- [entitlements](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/entitlements/)
- [Obamacare](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/obamacare/)
- [tax increases](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-increases/)
- [low-tax jurisdictions](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/low-tax-jurisdictions/)
- [Carl Levin](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/carl-levin/)
- [capital gains tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/capital-gains-tax/)
- [dividends tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/dividends-tax/)
- [Double Taxation Working Group](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/double-taxation-working-group/)
- [Jim DeMint](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/jim-demint/)
- [Rahn Curve](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/rahn-curve/)
- [abortion](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/abortion/)
- [Alan Greenspan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/alan-greenspan/)
- [Arizona](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/arizona/)
- [Art Laffer](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/art-laffer/)
- [Arts](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/arts/)
- [Australia](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/australia/)
- [Austrian School](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/austrian-school/)
- [Barney Frank](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/barney-frank/)
- [Big Brother](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/big-brother/)
- [Bobby Jindal](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bobby-jindal/)
- [BP Oil Spill](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bp-oil-spill/)
- [Britain](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/britain/)
- [budget](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/budget/)
- [Bureaucrats](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bureaucrats/)
- [Bush](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bush/)
- [California](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/california/)
- [Canada](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/canada/)
- [cap-and-trade](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cap-and-trade/)
- [capitalism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/capitalism/)
- [CBO](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cbo/)
- [centralization](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/centralization/)
- [Chicago School](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/chicago-school/)
- [Chris Christie](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/chris-christie/)
- [Chris Dodd](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/chris-dodd/)
- [Class Warfare](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/class-warfare/)
- [climate change](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/climate-change/)
- [Clinton](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/clinton/)
- [collectivism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/collectivism/)
- [Colorado](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/colorado/)
- [communism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/communism/)
- [Congressional Budget Office](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/congressional-budget-office/)
- [Connecticut](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/connecticut/)
- [corporate taxes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/corporate-taxes/)
- [corruption](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/corruption/)
- [CPAC](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cpac/)
- [Dan Mitchell](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/dan-mitchell/)
- [Daniel Hannan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/daniel-hannan/)
- [David Cameron](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/david-cameron/)
- [death tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/death-tax/)
- [Deficit](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/deficit/)
- [dependency](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/dependency/)
- [Drug War](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/drug-war/)
- [earmarks](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/earmarks/)
- [easy money](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/easy-money/)
- [Economic Freedom](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/economic-freedom/)
- [Economics 101](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/economics-101/)
- [Eduardo Morgan Jr.](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/eduardo-morgan-jr/)
- [elitism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/elitism/)
- [England](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/england/)
- [Environment](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/environment/)
- [environmentalists](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/environmentalists/)
- [Ezra Klein](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ezra-klein/)
- [Fair Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fair-tax/)
- [Fannie Mae](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fannie-mae/)
- [fascism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fascism/)
- [FDR](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fdr/)
- [Federal Reserve](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/federal-reserve/)
- [federalism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/federalism/)
- [financial crisis](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/financial-crisis/)
- [fiscal policy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fiscal-policy/)
- [foreign aid](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/foreign-aid/)
- [France](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/france/)
- [Freddie Mac](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/freddie-mac/)
- [freedom](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/freedom/)
- [gambling](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/gambling/)
- [Geithner](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/geithner/)
- [General Motors](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/general-motors/)
- [George Osborne](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/george-osborne/)
- [Germany](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/germany/)
- [Global Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/global-tax/)
- [global warming](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/global-warming/)
- [government licensing](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/government-licensing/)
- [government thuggery](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/government-thuggery/)
- [Great Depression](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/great-depression/)
- [Greece](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/greece/)
- [gun control](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/gun-control/)
- [harmonization](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/harmonization/)
- [Housing](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/housing/)
- [Humor](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/humor/)
- [hypocrisy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/hypocrisy/)
- [IMF](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/imf/)
- [income tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/income-tax/)
- [international bureaucracy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/international-bureaucracy/)
- [international taxation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/international-taxation/)
- [Jacob Lew](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/jacob-lew/)
- [JCT](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/jct/)
- [Joe Biden](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/joe-biden/)
- [John Kerry](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/john-kerry/)
- [John Stossel](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/john-stossel/)
- [Joint Committee on Taxation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/joint-committee-on-taxation/)
- [Kelo](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/kelo/)
- [Keynesianism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/keynesianism/)
- [LeBron James](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/lebron-james/)
- [Liberty](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/liberty/)
- [limited government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/limited-government/)
- [lobbying](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/lobbying/)
- [local government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/local-government/)
- [market intervention](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/market-intervention/)
- [media bias](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/media-bias/)
- [Merkel](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/merkel/)
- [Mitchell's Law](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/mitchells-law/)
- [nanny state](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/nanny-state/)
- [Netherlands](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/netherlands/)
- [New Jersey](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/new-jersey/)
- [New York](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/new-york/)
- [Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/organization-for-economic-cooperation-and-development/)
- [Orwellian](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/orwellian/)
- [Pelosi](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/pelosi/)
- [pensions](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/pensions/)
- [political humor](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/political-humor/)
- [politicians](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/politicians/)
- [Politics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/politics/)
- [polling](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/polling/)
- [pork-barrel spending](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/pork-barrel-spending/)
- [price controls](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/price-controls/)
- [price gouging](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/price-gouging/)
- [Prince Charles](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/prince-charles/)
- [privatization](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/privatization/)
- [property rights](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/property-rights/)
- [public opinion](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/public-opinion/)
- [Reagan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/reagan/)
- [regime uncertainty](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/regime-uncertainty/)
- [Regulation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/regulation/)
- [regulatory capture](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/regulatory-capture/)
- [Reinsurance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/reinsurance/)
- [rent control](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/rent-control/)
- [revenue cameras](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/revenue-cameras/)
- [Richard Shelby](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/richard-shelby/)
- [Romania](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/romania/)
- [San Francisco](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/san-francisco/)
- [Sarbanes-Oxley](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/sarbanes-oxley/)
- [School Choice](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/school-choice/)
- [soak-the-rich](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/soak-the-rich/)
- [social security](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/social-security/)
- [socialism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/socialism/)
- [speed traps](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/speed-traps/)
- [spending](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/spending/)
- [Statism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/statism/)
- [Stimulus](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/stimulus/)
- [Stoddel](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/stoddel/)
- [subsidies](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/subsidies/)
- [Supply-Side](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/supply-side/)
- [supreme court](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/supreme-court/)
- [switzerland](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/switzerland/)
- [TARP](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tarp/)
- [tax avoidance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-avoidance/)
- [tax cartel](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-cartel/)
- [tax compliance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-compliance/)
- [Taxes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/taxes/)
- [Taxpayers vs. Bureaucrats](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/taxpayers-vs-bureaucrats/)
- [Tea Party](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tea-party/)
- [third party payer](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/third-party-payer/)
- [Thomas Sowell](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/thomas-sowell/)
- [TSA](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tsa/)
- [unemployment](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/unemployment/)
- [Unions](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/unions/)
- [United Kingdom](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/united-kingdom/)
- [United Nations](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/united-nations/)
- [Walter Williams](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/walter-williams/)
- [welfare state](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/welfare-state/)
- [Zero Tolerance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/zero-tolerance/)
- [Republicans](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/republicans/)
- [Obama](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/obama/)
- [FATCA](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fatca/)
- [fiscal sovereignty](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fiscal-sovereignty/)
- [Cayman Finance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cayman-finance/)
- [national sales tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/national-sales-tax/)
- [tax reform](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-reform/)
- [value-added tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/value-added-tax/)
- [Martin Feldstein](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/martin-feldstein/)
- [China](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/china/)
- [gross domestic product](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/gross-domestic-product/)
- [Japan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/japan/)
- [national education association](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/national-education-association/)
- [New Orleans](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/new-orleans/)
- [sin taxes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/sin-taxes/)
- [tobacco](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tobacco/)
- [jobs](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/jobs/)
- [bureaucracy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bureaucracy/)
- [unfunded liabilities](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/unfunded-liabilities/)
- [investment freedom](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/investment-freedom/)
- [anti-money laundering laws](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/anti-money-laundering-laws/)
- [Carter](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/carter/)
- [free state project](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/free-state-project/)
- [Illinois](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/illinois/)
- [New Hampshire](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/new-hampshire/)
- [Washington](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/washington/)
- [HUD](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/hud/)
- [Cayman Islands](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cayman-islands/)
- [Paul Krugman](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/paul-krugman/)
- [Hong Kong](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/hong-kong/)
- [Estonia](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/estonia/)
- [Slovakia](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/slovakia/)
- [Iceland](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/iceland/)
- [Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/foreign-account-tax-compliance-act/)
- [World Bank](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/world-bank/)
- [Byron Dorgan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/byron-dorgan/)
- [free trade](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/free-trade/)
- [Judd Gregg](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/judd-gregg/)
- [Frank Wolf](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/frank-wolf/)
- [John Sweeney](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/john-sweeney/)
- [Paul O'Neill](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/paul-oneill/)
- [William Thomas](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/william-thomas/)
- [tax simplification](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-simplification/)
- [territorial taxation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/territorial-taxation/)
- [worldwide taxation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/worldwide-taxation/)
- [government incompetence](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/government-incompetence/)
- [boondoggle](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/boondoggle/)
- [Chile](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/chile/)
- [John F. Kennedy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/john-f-kennedy/)
- [big government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/big-government-2/)
- [inflation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/inflation/)
- [Alaska](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/alaska/)
- [election](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/election/)
- [Murkowski](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/murkowski/)
- [Utah](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/utah/)
- [government stupidity](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/government-stupidity/)
- [eminent domain](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/eminent-domain/)
- [Bulgaria](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bulgaria/)
- [dynamic scoring](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/dynamic-scoring/)
- [underground economy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/underground-economy/)
- [FDA](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fda/)
- [cost-benefit](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cost-benefit/)
- [OSHA](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/osha/)
- [redistribution](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/redistribution/)
- [gold standard](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/gold-standard/)
- [European Union](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/european-union/)
- [Libya](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/libya/)
- [Mexico](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/mexico/)
- [tax evasion](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-evasion/)
- [Russia](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/russia/)
- [excise taxes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/excise-taxes/)
- [entrepreneurship](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/entrepreneurship/)
- [Cuba](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cuba/)
- [poverty](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/poverty/)
- [Venezuala](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/venezuala/)
- [UAW](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/uaw/)
- [internal revenue service](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/internal-revenue-service/)
- [NEA](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/nea/)
- [Pennsylvania](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/pennsylvania/)
- [vouchers](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/vouchers/)
- [European Commission](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/european-commission/)
- [Jose Manuel Barroso](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/jose-manuel-barroso/)
- [gun rights](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/gun-rights/)
- [self defense](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/self-defense/)
- [red tape](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/red-tape/)
- [higher taxes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/higher-taxes/)
- [recession](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/recession/)
- [tax increase](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-increase/)
- [Fidel Castro](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fidel-castro/)
- [Singapore](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/singapore/)
- [Hoober](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/hoober/)
- [Roosevelt](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/roosevelt/)
- [Global Forum](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/global-forum/)
- [Brad DeLong](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/brad-delong/)
- [Castro](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/castro/)
- [Matthew Yglesias](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/matthew-yglesias/)
- [Somalia](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/somalia/)
- [Democrat](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/democrat/)
- [Tom Periello](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tom-periello/)
- [environmentalism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/environmentalism/)
- [Spain](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/spain/)
- [Health and Human Service](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/health-and-human-service/)
- [Kathleen Sebelius](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/kathleen-sebelius/)
- [personal retirement accounts](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/personal-retirement-accounts/)
- [Harvard](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/harvard/)
- [Alberto Alesina](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/alberto-alesina/)
- [Angela Merkel](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/angela-merkel/)
- [Cato Institute](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cato-institute/)
- [cash for clunkers](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cash-for-clunkers/)
- [DDT](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ddt/)
- [Environmental Protection Agency](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/environmental-protection-agency/)
- [EPA](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/epa/)
- [recycling](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/recycling/)
- [crime](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/crime-2/)
- [money laundering](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/money-laundering/)
- [prohibition](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/prohibition/)
- [victimless crime](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/victimless-crime/)
- [police](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/police/)
- [incentives](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/incentives/)
- [investment](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/investment/)
- [leviathan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/leviathan/)
- [United Kinddom](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/united-kinddom/)
- [withholding](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/withholding/)
- [Department of Housing and Urban Development](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/department-of-housing-and-urban-development/)
- [feminism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/feminism/)
- [quotas](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/quotas/)
- [free speech](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/free-speech/)
- [Warren Buffett](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/warren-buffett/)
- [Czech Republic](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/czech-republic/)
- [Vaclav Klaus](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/vaclav-klaus/)
- [UN](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/un/)
- [unpaid internships](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/unpaid-internships/)
- [deferral](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/deferral/)
- [demagoguery](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/demagoguery/)
- [Judge Napolitano](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/judge-napolitano/)
- [riots](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/riots/)
- [Reason](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/reason/)
- [Government intervention](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/government-intervention/)
- [Health Reform](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/health-reform/)
- [Balanced Budget](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/balanced-budget/)
- [Fiscal Balance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fiscal-balance/)
- [Deficit Spending](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/deficit-spending/)
- [Keynesian Economics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/keynesian-economics/)
- [Ranking](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ranking/)
- [News Appearance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/news-appearance/)
- [Los Angeles](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/los-angeles/)
- [Econmics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/econmics/)
- [Hoover](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/hoover/)
- [Joblessness](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/joblessness/)
- [Brain drain](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/brain-drain/)
- [Rankings](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/rankings/)
- [Bulldogs](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bulldogs/)
- [Georgia](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/georgia/)
- [Mont Pelerin Society](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/mont-pelerin-society/)
- [Economy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/economy/)
- [Hayek](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/hayek/)
- [Evolution](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/evolution/)
- [Federal Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/federal-government/)
- [Polling Data](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/polling-data/)
- [Uncertainty](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/uncertainty/)
- [Calvin Coolidge](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/calvin-coolidge/)
- [Mitch Daniels](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/mitch-daniels/)
- [Libertarian](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/libertarian/)
- [Conservative](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/conservative/)
- [Sleaze](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/sleaze/)
- [Lisa Murkowski](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/lisa-murkowski/)
- [Graft](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/graft/)
- [Americans for Tax Reform](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/americans-for-tax-reform/)
- [National Review](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/national-review/)
- [Competitiveness](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/competitiveness/)
- [Google](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/google/)
- [Small Business](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/small-business/)
- [Bernanke](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bernanke/)
- [Easy-Money Policy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/easy-money-policy/)
- [Elections](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/elections/)
- [Initiatives](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/initiatives/)
- [Bailout](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bailout/)
- [Boehner](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/boehner/)
- [Medicare](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/medicare/)
- [FATF](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fatf/)
- [Voting](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/voting/)
- [Harry Reid](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/harry-reid/)
- [Red-Light Cameras](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/red-light-cameras/)
- [AARP](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/aarp/)
- [Climated Change](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/climated-change/)
- [African-Americans](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/african-americans/)
- [Global Taxation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/global-taxation/)
- [White House](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/white-house/)
- [Big business](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/big-business/)
- [Ethanol](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ethanol/)
- [Lobbyists](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/lobbyists/)
- [Congress](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/congress/)
- [Congressional Research Service](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/congressional-research-service/)
- [Interest Rates](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/interest-rates/)
- [Fiscal Commission](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fiscal-commission/)
- [TIEAs](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tieas/)
- [G-20](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/g-20/)
- [Cost-Benefit Analysis](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cost-benefit-analysis/)
- [Terrorism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/terrorism/)
- [Ben Bernanke](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ben-bernanke/)
- [Belgium](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/belgium/)
- [Italy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/italy/)
- [Corporate tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/corporate-tax/)
- [Ireland](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ireland/)
- [Euro](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/euro/)
- [Hungary](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/hungary/)
- [Jared Polis](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/jared-polis/)
- [Migration](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/migration/)
- [Payroll Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/payroll-tax/)
- [Tax Holiday](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-holiday/)
- [Domenici-Rivlin](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/domenici-rivlin/)
- [Simpson-Bowles](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/simpson-bowles/)
- [Private Property](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/private-property/)
- [Thanksgiving](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/thanksgiving/)
- [John Boehner](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/john-boehner/)
- [Self-Reliance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/self-reliance/)
- [Hiwa Alaghebandian](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/hiwa-alaghebandian/)
- [Keynes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/keynes/)
- [Referendum](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/referendum/)
- [Union Bosses](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/union-bosses/)
- [rent seeking](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/rent-seeking/)
- [FHA](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fha/)
- [Nancy Pelosi](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/nancy-pelosi/)
- [Sherrod brown](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/sherrod-brown/)
- [Adverse Selection](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/adverse-selection/)
- [Health Insurance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/health-insurance/)
- [State Government](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/state-government/)
- [Virginia](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/virginia/)
- [Marginal tax rates](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/marginal-tax-rates/)
- [Supply-Side Econmics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/supply-side-econmics/)
- [Jurisdictional Competition](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/jurisdictional-competition/)
- [Scotland](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/scotland/)
- [Quantitative Easing](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/quantitative-easing/)
- [prosperity](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/prosperity/)
- [Hugo Chavez](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/hugo-chavez/)
- [Loopholes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/loopholes/)
- [Tax Distortions](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-distortions/)
- [Tax rates](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-rates/)
- [Europe Euro](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/europe-euro/)
- [Build America Bonds](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/build-america-bonds/)
- [gross domestic income](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/gross-domestic-income/)
- [GDP](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/gdp/)
- [GDI](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/gdi/)
- [consumer spending](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/consumer-spending/)
- [Corporate income tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/corporate-income-tax/)
- [New York Post](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/new-york-post/)
- [McDonalds](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/mcdonalds/)
- [food police](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/food-police/)
- [Censorship](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/censorship/)
- [Internet](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/internet/)
- [Smuggling](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/smuggling/)
- [Larry Summers](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/larry-summers/)
- [Austrian Economics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/austrian-economics/)
- [Video](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/video/)
- [Second Amendment](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/second-amendment/)
- [Oregon](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/oregon/)
- [Home School](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/home-school/)
- [Home Schooling](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/home-schooling/)
- [victimless crim](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/victimless-crim/)
- [Phonemarks](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/phonemarks/)
- [Employment](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/employment/)
- [Labor](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/labor/)
- [Ponzi Scheme](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ponzi-scheme/)
- [Cartel](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cartel/)
- [Air Traffic Control](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/air-traffic-control/)
- [International Monetary Fund](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/international-monetary-fund/)
- [Corporation for Public Broadcasting](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/corporation-for-public-broadcasting/)
- [CPB](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cpb/)
- [National Public Radio](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/national-public-radio/)
- [NPR](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/npr/)
- [PBS](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/pbs/)
- [Public Broadcasting System](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/public-broadcasting-system/)
- [Housing Bubble](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/housing-bubble/)
- [Malinvestment](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/malinvestment/)
- [Democrats](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/democrats/)
- [Decentralization](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/decentralization/)
- [Transportation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/transportation/)
- [Douglas Elmendorf](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/douglas-elmendorf/)
- [Christine Lagarde](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/christine-lagarde/)
- [Giffords](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/giffords/)
- [Jared Lee Loughner](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/jared-lee-loughner/)
- [Social Security Privatization](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/social-security-privatization/)
- [Portugal](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/portugal/)
- [United States](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/united-states/)
- [Protectionism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/protectionism/)
- [Earmark](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/earmark/)
- [Governmnet Spending](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/governmnet-spending/)
- [REG-146097-09](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/reg-146097-09/)
- [nonresident alien interest reporting](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/nonresident-alien-interest-reporting/)
- [personal savings accounts](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/personal-savings-accounts/)
- [Economic Freedom of the World Index](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/economic-freedom-of-the-world-index/)
- [Index of Economic Freedom](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/index-of-economic-freedom/)
- [London](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/london/)
- [Texas](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/texas/)
- [Van Rompuy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/van-rompuy/)
- [Gabrielle Giffords](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/gabrielle-giffords/)
- [Tuscon Shooting](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tuscon-shooting/)
- [Pets](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/pets/)
- [Bail](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bail/)
- [Bail Bondsmen](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bail-bondsmen/)
- [Private Sector](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/private-sector/)
- [Competititiveness](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/competititiveness/)
- [Tax Haven](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-haven/)
- [Bill Frist](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bill-frist/)
- [Firearms](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/firearms/)
- [European Central Bank](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/european-central-bank/)
- [Race](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/race/)
- [Sovereignty](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/sovereignty/)
- [Crony Capitalism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/crony-capitalism/)
- [Handouts](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/handouts/)
- [Industrial Policy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/industrial-policy/)
- [Pierre Garello](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/pierre-garello/)
- [Waste](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/waste/)
- [Housing and Urban Development](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/housing-and-urban-development/)
- [San Marino](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/san-marino/)
- [Denmark](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/denmark/)
- [Clint Eastwood](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/clint-eastwood/)
- [Fairness](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fairness/)
- [Property Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/property-tax/)
- [Wealth Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/wealth-tax/)
- [Minneapolis Federal Reserve](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/minneapolis-federal-reserve/)
- [Obamanomics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/obamanomics/)
- [Reaganomics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/reaganomics/)
- [Brazil](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/brazil/)
- [Happiness](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/happiness/)
- [Malawi](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/malawi/)
- [Al Gore](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/al-gore/)
- [Ronald Reagan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ronald-reagan/)
- [Supply-side economics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/supply-side-economics/)
- [food nazi](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/food-nazi/)
- [Super Bowl Commercial](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/super-bowl-commercial/)
- [Double Taxation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/double-taxation/)
- [Bill Clinton](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bill-clinton/)
- [Federal Budget](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/federal-budget/)
- [Tax complexity](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-complexity/)
- [Federal Spending](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/federal-spending/)
- [Death Panels](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/death-panels/)
- [Soccer](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/soccer/)
- [Corporate taxation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/corporate-taxation/)
- [Dividends](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/dividends/)
- [Governor Walker](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/governor-walker/)
- [Scott Walker](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/scott-walker/)
- [Wisconsin](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/wisconsin/)
- [Medicaid](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/medicaid/)
- [New Zealand](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/new-zealand/)
- [Democracy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/democracy/)
- [Government Shutdown](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/government-shutdown/)
- [Atlas Shrugged](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/atlas-shrugged/)
- [Ayn Rand](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ayn-rand/)
- [John Galt](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/john-galt/)
- [Static Scoring](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/static-scoring/)
- [Central Bank](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/central-bank/)
- [Dave Barry](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/dave-barry/)
- [CFL Lightbulb](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cfl-lightbulb/)
- [Budget Summit](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/budget-summit/)
- [Coburn](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/coburn/)
- [Norquist](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/norquist/)
- [Rand Paul](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/rand-paul/)
- [Antitrust Laws](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/antitrust-laws/)
- [Football](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/football/)
- [National Football League](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/national-football-league/)
- [Right of Contract](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/right-of-contract/)
- [Enviroment](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/enviroment/)
- [Low-Flow Toilet](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/low-flow-toilet/)
- [Front-Loading Washington Machine](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/front-loading-washington-machine/)
- [New Light Bulb](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/new-light-bulb/)
- [Dan Hannan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/dan-hannan/)
- [Allister Heath](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/allister-heath/)
- [Central Banking](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/central-banking/)
- [Free Banking](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/free-banking/)
- [Ron Paul](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ron-paul/)
- [Shutdown](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/shutdown/)
- [Toilet Paper Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/toilet-paper-tax/)
- [Balanced Budget Amendment](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/balanced-budget-amendment/)
- [Argentina](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/argentina/)
- [Venezuela](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/venezuela/)
- [Jeffrey Sachs](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/jeffrey-sachs/)
- [Race to the Bottom](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/race-to-the-bottom/)
- [Austerity](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/austerity/)
- [State Governments](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/state-governments/)
- [CAP Act](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cap-act/)
- [Senator Corker](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/senator-corker/)
- [Paul Ryan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/paul-ryan/)
- [European Parliament](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/european-parliament/)
- [Charity](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/charity/)
- [Coercion](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/coercion/)
- [Michael Gerson](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/michael-gerson/)
- [Morality](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/morality/)
- [Roger Pilon](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/roger-pilon/)
- [Birther](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/birther/)
- [Conspiracy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/conspiracy/)
- [Conspiracy Theory](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/conspiracy-theory/)
- [Koch Industries](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/koch-industries/)
- [Rule of Law](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/rule-of-law/)
- [Tax Freedom Day](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-freedom-day/)
- [Default](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/default/)
- [Income redistribution](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/income-redistribution/)
- [Intervention](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/intervention/)
- [Defense Spending](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/defense-spending/)
- [Gramm-Rudman](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/gramm-rudman/)
- [Sequestration](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/sequestration/)
- [Death Panel](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/death-panel/)
- [Rationing](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/rationing/)
- [Ryan Plan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ryan-plan/)
- [Ryan Roadmap](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ryan-roadmap/)
- [Pakistan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/pakistan/)
- [High-Speed Rail](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/high-speed-rail/)
- [Economics Competitiveness](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/economics-competitiveness/)
- [Depreciation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/depreciation/)
- [New York City](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/new-york-city/)
- [Taxatio](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/taxatio/)
- [George Soros](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/george-soros/)
- [Richard Epstein](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/richard-epstein/)
- [The Constitution of Liberty](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/the-constitution-of-liberty/)
- [Appeasement](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/appeasement/)
- [Sovereign Debt](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/sovereign-debt/)
- [Rhode Island](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/rhode-island/)
- [Maine](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/maine/)
- [Taxpayer Ripoff](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/taxpayer-ripoff/)
- [Auto Bailout](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/auto-bailout/)
- [Debt Limit](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/debt-limit/)
- [Baltic Nations](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/baltic-nations/)
- [Latvia](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/latvia/)
- [Lithuania](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/lithuania/)
- [Dominique Strauss-Kahn](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/dominique-strauss-kahn/)
- [Reason TV](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/reason-tv/)
- [Alice Rivlin](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/alice-rivlin/)
- [Healthcare](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/healthcare/)
- [Newt Gingrich](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/newt-gingrich/)
- [Bermuda](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bermuda/)
- [Dominque Strauss Kahn](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/dominque-strauss-kahn/)
- [Fiscal Crisis](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fiscal-crisis/)
- [Rape](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/rape/)
- [Food Stamps](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/food-stamps/)
- [Disability Fraud](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/disability-fraud/)
- [Union Boss](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/union-boss/)
- [Ukraine](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ukraine/)
- [Chrysler](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/chrysler/)
- [Cronyism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cronyism/)
- [Marco Rubio](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/marco-rubio/)
- [Discrimination](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/discrimination/)
- [Mitt Romney](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/mitt-romney/)
- [Postal Service](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/postal-service/)
- [Money](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/money/)
- [Economic Reform](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/economic-reform/)
- [Social Security Reform](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/social-security-reform/)
- [Superannuation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/superannuation/)
- [Anthony Weiner](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/anthony-weiner/)
- [Weinergate](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/weinergate/)
- [Sovereign Debt Crisis](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/sovereign-debt-crisis/)
- [Gas Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/gas-tax/)
- [Government Motors](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/government-motors/)
- [Rating Agencies](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/rating-agencies/)
- [Individualism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/individualism/)
- [Amazon.com](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/amazon-com/)
- [Arkansas](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/arkansas/)
- [Treasury](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/treasury/)
- [Payroll Tax Holiday](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/payroll-tax-holiday/)
- [Tax Cuts](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-cuts/)
- [Boeing](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/boeing/)
- [Robert Lucas](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/robert-lucas/)
- [Andrew Sullivan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/andrew-sullivan/)
- [Department of Agriculture](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/department-of-agriculture/)
- [Albania](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/albania/)
- [Washington DC](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/washington-dc/)
- [Risk](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/risk/)
- [Transportation Security Agency](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/transportation-security-agency/)
- [Libertarianism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/libertarianism/)
- [Growth](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/growth/)
- [Tax Expenditure](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-expenditure/)
- [Tax Loophole](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-loophole/)
- [CAP](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cap/)
- [Center for American Progress](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/center-for-american-progress/)
- [Vermont](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/vermont/)
- [Maryland](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/maryland/)
- [Senator Rubio](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/senator-rubio/)
- [Declaration of Independence](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/declaration-of-independence/)
- [Founding Fathers](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/founding-fathers/)
- [Politcal Humor](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/politcal-humor/)
- [Balanced Approach](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/balanced-approach/)
- [European Model](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/european-model/)
- [Statis](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/statis/)
- [Baseball](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/baseball/)
- [Gift Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/gift-tax/)
- [Yankees](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/yankees/)
- [Debt Ceiling](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/debt-ceiling/)
- [Baseline Budgeting](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/baseline-budgeting/)
- [Diversity](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/diversity/)
- [Romneycare](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/romneycare/)
- [Poverty Rate](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/poverty-rate/)
- [War on Poverty](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/war-on-poverty/)
- [Government Fraud](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/government-fraud/)
- [Section 911](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/section-911/)
- [Kent Conrad](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/kent-conrad/)
- [Weekly Political Humor](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/weekly-political-humor/)
- [Bruce Bartlett](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bruce-bartlett/)
- [Keyneian Economics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/keyneian-economics/)
- [Detroit](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/detroit/)
- [Foreign Policy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/foreign-policy/)
- [Pentagon](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/pentagon/)
- [Herman van Rompuy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/herman-van-rompuy/)
- [Rompuy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/rompuy/)
- [Downgrade](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/downgrade/)
- [LBJ](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/lbj/)
- [Debt Downgrade](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/debt-downgrade/)
- [Moral Relativism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/moral-relativism/)
- [sports](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/sports/)
- [D.C.](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/d-c/)
- [Jock Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/jock-tax/)
- [Hihger Taxes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/hihger-taxes/)
- [Reid](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/reid/)
- [Super Committee](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/super-committee/)
- [Discrmination](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/discrmination/)
- [Eurobonds](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/eurobonds/)
- [Galt's Gulch](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/galts-gulch/)
- [Expatriation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/expatriation/)
- [AML](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/aml/)
- [Asset Forfeiture](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/asset-forfeiture/)
- [Civil Forfeiture](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/civil-forfeiture/)
- [Jury Nullification](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/jury-nullification/)
- [Legal System](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/legal-system/)
- [Jay Beeber](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/jay-beeber/)
- [Red-Light Camera](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/red-light-camera/)
- [Charitable Giving](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/charitable-giving/)
- [Philanthropy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/philanthropy/)
- [Steve Jobs](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/steve-jobs/)
- [Catholic Church](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/catholic-church/)
- [Vatican](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/vatican/)
- [Babysitting](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/babysitting/)
- [Governor Huntsman](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/governor-huntsman/)
- [Jon Huntsman](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/jon-huntsman/)
- [New York Times](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/new-york-times/)
- [Bloomberg](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bloomberg/)
- [Madoff](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/madoff/)
- [Sarah Palin](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/sarah-palin/)
- [Cheney](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cheney/)
- [Michele Bachmann](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/michele-bachmann/)
- [Rich Perry](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/rich-perry/)
- [Tax Loopholes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-loopholes/)
- [Bastiat](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bastiat/)
- [Energy Subsidies](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/energy-subsidies/)
- [Opportunity Cost](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/opportunity-cost/)
- [Solyndra](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/solyndra/)
- [Tim Geithner](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tim-geithner/)
- [Alternative Minimum Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/alternative-minimum-tax/)
- [AMT](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/amt/)
- [Economic Freedom of the World](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/economic-freedom-of-the-world/)
- [Paul Volcker](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/paul-volcker/)
- [Tax Revolt](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-revolt/)
- [Herman Cain](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/herman-cain/)
- [Dividend Taxation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/dividend-taxation/)
- [Green Energy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/green-energy/)
- [Class Wafare](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/class-wafare/)
- [Elizabeth Warren](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/elizabeth-warren/)
- [Massachusetts](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/massachusetts/)
- [Stupid Party](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/stupid-party/)
- [Department of Transportation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/department-of-transportation/)
- [Infrastructure](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/infrastructure/)
- [Grover Norquist](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/grover-norquist/)
- [Veronique de Rugy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/veronique-de-rugy/)
- [Supercommittee](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/supercommittee/)
- [Tax Increaess](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-increaess/)
- [Richard Sulik](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/richard-sulik/)
- [Reuters](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/reuters/)
- [Tanning Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tanning-tax/)
- [Occupy Wall Street](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/occupy-wall-street/)
- [OWS](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ows/)
- [Anguilla](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/anguilla/)
- [Government Spendng](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/government-spendng/)
- [Senator Sessions](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/senator-sessions/)
- [Adult Baby](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/adult-baby/)
- [Fraud](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fraud/)
- [Florida](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/florida/)
- [2012 Election](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/2012-election/)
- [Governor Perry](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/governor-perry/)
- [Rick Perry](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/rick-perry/)
- [Vince Cable](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/vince-cable/)
- [Intelligence Squared](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/intelligence-squared/)
- [El Salvador](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/el-salvador/)
- [Celtic Tiger](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/celtic-tiger/)
- [Mitchell's Golden Rule](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/mitchells-golden-rule/)
- [Romney](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/romney/)
- [Americans for Prosperity](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/americans-for-prosperity/)
- [Financial Transaction Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/financial-transaction-tax/)
- [Tobin Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tobin-tax/)
- [Complexity](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/complexity/)
- [Antigua](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/antigua/)
- [Chicago](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/chicago/)
- [Patriotism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/patriotism/)
- [ECB](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ecb/)
- [Sequester](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/sequester/)
- [Socail Security](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/socail-security/)
- [Capital Formation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/capital-formation/)
- [Investing](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/investing/)
- [Saving](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/saving/)
- [Trickle-Down Economics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/trickle-down-economics/)
- [Central planning](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/central-planning/)
- [Basel Capital Standards](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/basel-capital-standards/)
- [Federal Reserver](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/federal-reserver/)
- [AFL-CIO](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/afl-cio/)
- [Unemployment Insurance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/unemployment-insurance/)
- [Senator Schumer](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/senator-schumer/)
- [Catherine Rampell](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/catherine-rampell/)
- [Civil Liberties](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/civil-liberties/)
- [Norway](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/norway/)
- [Tariffs](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tariffs/)
- [Michael O'Leary](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/michael-oleary/)
- [Ryan Air](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ryan-air/)
- [Limousine Liberals](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/limousine-liberals/)
- [Income Inequality](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/income-inequality/)
- [Margaret Thatcher](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/margaret-thatcher/)
- [Wall Street](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/wall-street/)
- [Philadelphia](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/philadelphia/)
- [Income Equality](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/income-equality/)
- [Employment-Population Ratio](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/employment-population-ratio/)
- [Austan Goolsbee](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/austan-goolsbee/)
- [Rick Santorum](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/rick-santorum/)
- [Pedophilia](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/pedophilia/)
- [Sarkozy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/sarkozy/)
- [Mercedes-Benz](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/mercedes-benz/)
- [Higher Tax Rates](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/higher-tax-rates/)
- [Progressive Taxation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/progressive-taxation/)
- [Merkozy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/merkozy/)
- [Gingrich](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/gingrich/)
- [NASA](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/nasa/)
- [Space Travel](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/space-travel/)
- [State-of-the-Union Speech](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/state-of-the-union-speech/)
- [Barack Obama](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/barack-obama/)
- [Income Mobility](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/income-mobility/)
- [Robert Reich](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/robert-reich/)
- [Gridlock](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/gridlock/)
- [Latin America](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/latin-america/)
- [Agenda 21](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/agenda-21/)
- [White House Rural Council](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/white-house-rural-council/)
- [Education Bubble](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/education-bubble/)
- [Dominican Republic](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/dominican-republic/)
- [IRS Commissioner](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/irs-commissioner/)
- [George Selgin](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/george-selgin/)
- [Fake Spending Cuts](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fake-spending-cuts/)
- [Ron Johnson](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ron-johnson/)
- [Top Tax Rate](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/top-tax-rate/)
- [Red Ink](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/red-ink/)
- [Executive pay](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/executive-pay/)
- [Welfare Reform](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/welfare-reform/)
- [Anti-Money Laundering](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/anti-money-laundering/)
- [School Choise](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/school-choise/)
- [Institute for Justice](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/institute-for-justice/)
- [Corporate Welfare](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/corporate-welfare/)
- [Ex-Im Bank](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ex-im-bank/)
- [Export-Import Bank](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/export-import-bank/)
- [Small Business Administration](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/small-business-administration/)
- [SBA](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/sba/)
- [Bob Dole Award](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bob-dole-award/)
- [World Health Organization](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/world-health-organization/)
- [Mohammed Merah](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/mohammed-merah/)
- [Internet Taxation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/internet-taxation/)
- [Sales Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/sales-tax/)
- [SSTP](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/sstp/)
- [Commerce Clause](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/commerce-clause/)
- [Enumerated Powers](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/enumerated-powers/)
- [Republican Study Committee](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/republican-study-committee/)
- [RSC](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/rsc/)
- [Senate Budget Committee](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/senate-budget-committee/)
- [Testimony](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/testimony/)
- [North Korea](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/north-korea/)
- [Bureuacracy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bureuacracy/)
- [Grand Bargain](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/grand-bargain/)
- [Buffet Rule](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/buffet-rule/)
- [Capital Gain](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/capital-gain/)
- [Anders Borg](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/anders-borg/)
- [Greg Mankiw](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/greg-mankiw/)
- [AML Laws](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/aml-laws/)
- [Anti-Monety Laundering](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/anti-monety-laundering/)
- [Thomas Friedman](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/thomas-friedman/)
- [Connie Mack](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/connie-mack/)
- [Mike Enzi](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/mike-enzi/)
- [Penny Plan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/penny-plan/)
- [Debt Brake](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/debt-brake/)
- [Josh Barro](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/josh-barro/)
- [Vote with Your Feet](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/vote-with-your-feet/)
- [Exit Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/exit-tax/)
- [Facebook](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/facebook/)
- [Defense Budget](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/defense-budget/)
- [Hollande](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/hollande/)
- [Oklahoma](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/oklahoma/)
- [Dana Milbank](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/dana-milbank/)
- [Julia](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/julia/)
- [Governor Jerry Brown](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/governor-jerry-brown/)
- [Trains](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/trains/)
- [Savings Tax Directive](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/savings-tax-directive/)
- [Creative Destruction](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/creative-destruction/)
- [Economic Dynamism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/economic-dynamism/)
- [Centre for Policy Studies](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/centre-for-policy-studies/)
- [Guido Westerwelle](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/guido-westerwelle/)
- [anti-dumping](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/anti-dumping/)
- [Unemployment Rate](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/unemployment-rate/)
- [First Amendment](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/first-amendment/)
- [Teacher unions](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/teacher-unions/)
- [Union](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/union/)
- [Ann Hollingshead](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ann-hollingshead/)
- [Obesity](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/obesity/)
- [Comparable Worth](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/comparable-worth/)
- [Fatal conceit](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fatal-conceit/)
- [Paycheck Fairness Act](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/paycheck-fairness-act/)
- [Governemnt Spending](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/governemnt-spending/)
- [Cost Overruns](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cost-overruns/)
- [Olympics Cost Estimates](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/olympics-cost-estimates/)
- [Redistributionism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/redistributionism/)
- [Minimum Wage Laws](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/minimum-wage-laws/)
- [National Savings](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/national-savings/)
- [Savings](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/savings/)
- [Savings Rate](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/savings-rate/)
- [Stockton](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/stockton/)
- [Tax Pledge](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-pledge/)
- [Cyprus](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cyprus/)
- [Disability](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/disability/)
- [Danish Economic Council](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/danish-economic-council/)
- [Arthur Brooks](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/arthur-brooks/)
- [Earned Success](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/earned-success/)
- [Demographics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/demographics/)
- [Swedem](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/swedem/)
- [Tax Justice Network](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-justice-network/)
- [Ryan Budget](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ryan-budget/)
- [Military Budget](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/military-budget/)
- [Government Borrowing](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/government-borrowing/)
- [Majoritarianism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/majoritarianism/)
- [carbon](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/carbon/)
- [Occupational Safety and Health Administration](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/occupational-safety-and-health-administration/)
- [State and Local Taxes](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/state-and-local-taxes/)
- [Tax Distortion](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-distortion/)
- [Tax Preference](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-preference/)
- [Job Training](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/job-training/)
- [Presidential Debate](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/presidential-debate/)
- [New Deal](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/new-deal/)
- [Secession](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/secession/)
- [Federal Salary Council](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/federal-salary-council/)
- [Fiscal Cliff](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fiscal-cliff/)
- [Bailiwick of Jersey](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bailiwick-of-jersey/)
- [Jersey](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/jersey/)
- [Carrot Rebellion](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/carrot-rebellion/)
- [Stagnation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/stagnation/)
- [Black Swan](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/black-swan/)
- [Tobacco Taxation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tobacco-taxation/)
- [WHO](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/who/)
- [Gerard Depardieu](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/gerard-depardieu/)
- [Laetitia Casta](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/laetitia-casta/)
- [Marginal Tax Rate](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/marginal-tax-rate/)
- [Poverty Trap](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/poverty-trap/)
- [Moocher Index](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/moocher-index/)
- [Starve the Beast](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/starve-the-beast/)
- [Freedom Index](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/freedom-index/)
- [Head Start](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/head-start/)
- [Hillsdale College](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/hillsdale-college/)
- [Jack Lew](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/jack-lew/)
- [Turks and Caicos Islands](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/turks-and-caicos-islands/)
- [Marketplace Fairness Act](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/marketplace-fairness-act/)
- [EEOC](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/eeoc/)
- [Equal Employment Opportunity Commission](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/equal-employment-opportunity-commission/)
- [Municipal Bonds](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/municipal-bonds/)
- [Corporate Jet](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/corporate-jet/)
- [Loophole](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/loophole/)
- [Citigroup](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/citigroup/)
- [Robert Rubin](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/robert-rubin/)
- [Inequality](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/inequality/)
- [Cigarette Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cigarette-tax/)
- [Sin Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/sin-tax/)
- [Tobacco Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tobacco-tax/)
- [FTT](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/ftt/)
- [Cass Sunstein](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/cass-sunstein/)
- [Paternalism](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/paternalism/)
- [Appropriations](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/appropriations/)
- [Discretionary Spending](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/discretionary-spending/)
- [Bowles-Simson](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bowles-simson/)
- [FAA](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/faa/)
- [Federal Aviation Administration](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/federal-aviation-administration/)
- [Beer Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/beer-tax/)
- [Krugman](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/krugman/)
- [Tax and Expenditure Limitation](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/tax-and-expenditure-limitation/)
- [Question of the Week](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/question-of-the-week/)
- [Apple](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/apple/)
- [Mandates](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/mandates/)
- [Mandatory Vacation Time](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/mandatory-vacation-time/)
- [Coolidge](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/coolidge/)
- [Excise Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/excise-tax/)
- [Wine Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/wine-tax/)
- [Government-Run Health Care](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/government-run-health-care/)
- [Macroeconomics](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/macroeconomics/)
- [student loan debt](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/student-loan-debt/)
- [Mitchell's Theorem](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/mitchells-theorem/)
- [Regulatio](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/regulatio/)
- [Social Security Disability](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/social-security-disability/)
- [FDIC Resolution](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/fdic-resolution/)
- [Paychecks](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/paychecks/)
- [Pre-Paid Cards](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/pre-paid-cards/)
- [Workers](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/workers/)
- [BEPS](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/beps/)
- [Bankruptcy](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bankruptcy/)
- [Compassion](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/compassion/)
- [Kevin Williamson](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/kevin-williamson/)
- [Victor David Hanson](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/victor-david-hanson/)
- [MEADS](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/meads/)
- [Foreign Intervention](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/foreign-intervention/)
- [Syria](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/syria/)
- [Carbon Tax](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/carbon-tax/)
- [War on Drugs](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/war-on-drugs/)
- [Poland](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/poland/)
- [Bitcoin](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bitcoin/)
- [Bono](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/bono/)
- [16th Amerdment](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/16th-amerdment/)
- [Campaign Finance](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/campaign-finance/)
- [Mark Steyn](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/mark-steyn/)
- [John Kasich](https://freedomandprosperity.org/tag/john-kasich/)