All Posts Tagged With: "tax policy"

Tips to Hike Your Taxes

Taxes are due and refunds are flowing. What’s a good tax hiker to do? Keep his ill-gotten gains or give them back? The New York Times Magazine features a column titled “The Ethicist.” It is basically modern liberalism meets Ann Landers. As rebate checks were being cut, Ms. Tamar Kotelchuck, a resident of Somerville, Massachusetts, [...]

27Jun2010 | Doug Bandow | 1 comment | Continued

The New Financial Imperialism

The Britannica Concise Encyclopedia defines imperialism as “the policy of extending a nation’s authority by territorial acquisition or by the establishment of economic and political hegemony over other nations. Because imperialism always involves the use of power, often in the form of military force, it is widely considered morally objectionable, and the term accordingly has [...]

20May2010 | Robert Stewart | 3 comments | Continued

About Those Tax Breaks

Few things bug free-market economists as much as the attempts by local and state authorities to give tax breaks to certain firms in the name of “creating jobs.”

6Jan2010 | William L. Anderson | 3 comments | Continued

Stealth Expansion of Government Power

The government of the United States spent the year debating major new undertakings, ranging from health care to climate change to energy development to tax reform. Yet a far more fundamental shift, in the form of a rapid and pervasive expansion of government power over the private sector of the economy, has been going on [...]

23Oct2009 | Murray Weidenbaum | 1 comment | Continued

The Threat of Tax Centralization Hovers Over Europe

Are Europe’s politicians about to undo one of the most decisive safeguards for freedom on the Old Continent? These days the talk in European chancelleries is all about clamping down on citizens who seek to protect their wealth in more amicable environments. The European Union and its predecessors have been progressively centralizing tax systems in [...]

1Dec2008 | Pierre Bessard | 0 comments | Continued

Tolls on the Road to Serfdom

D.W. MacKenzie is an assistant professor of economics and finance at SUNY Plattsburgh. Many people think their taxes are too high and that the tax system is unfair. While those who favor individual liberty might find this encouraging, the specific reasons for discontent are not entirely positive. Many Americans think the current system is unfair [...]

1Apr2007 | D.W. MacKenzie | 0 comments | Continued

Corporate Accounting: Still Evolving After All These Years

Chris Edwards is director of fiscal policy at the Cato Institute. Politicians were quick to blame recent accounting scandals on failures in the free-market system. But financial markets are far from free, and the government deserves a share of the blame for the scandals. For example, the distortionary tax code causes corporations to amass too [...]

1Feb2003 | Chris Edwards | 0 comments | Continued

The Steps to Economic Freedom

Christopher Lingle is a visiting professor of economics, ESEADE at Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala. Many Latin American countries suffered for decades under a form of homegrown despotism. The accompanying repression of political liberties left a legacy of far-reaching state intervention, widespread corruption, persistently high rates of poverty, and slow economic growth. Emerging market economies [...]

1Jul2001 | Christopher Lingle | 1 comment | Continued

Don’t Tax the Internet

On a recent visit to the Roman ruins at Volubulis, Morocco, I noticed a magnificent stone arch the city’s officials erected nearly 2,000 years ago. Etched in stone and still eminently readable were Latin words thanking Emperor Caracalla for two things: protecting the city from invaders and exempting the citizens from taxation. Please excuse the [...]

1Jun2000 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | Continued

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