Senate Republicans failed to atone for their sins by voting for a balanced budget proposal.

Preventing a bad OECD trearty from sneaking through the Senate.

Another wrinkle in the VAT debate.

A troubling inclusion in otherwise good tax plans.

For their tax reform plans to work, candidates need concomitant proposals to restrain the growth of federal spending.

I wrote a post several years ago contrasting a good initiative by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky and a statist proposal by Senator Chuck Schumer of New York. There was no connection between the two ideas, but I thought the comparison helped show the difference between someone who instinctively wants more freedom and someone who reflexively thinks […]

Senator Rand Paul is being criticized and condemned by the Washington establishment. That’s almost certainly a sign that he’s doing the right thing. And given the recent events in Russia and Ukraine, we should say he’s doing a great thing. This is because Senator Paul is waging a lonely battle to stop the unthinking and […]

A few months ago, I wrote some very nice things about a budget plan put together by Senator Rand Paul of Kentucky, noting that: Senator Paul and his colleagues are highlighting the fact that the plan generates a balanced budget in just five years. That’s a good outcome, but it should be a secondary selling […]

This is beautiful. It’s so refreshing to have a handful of Republicans who actually understand that their job is promoting freedom.