Articles By Author Chris Edwards
Articles by Chris Edwards
02/15/2010 12:00 AM
January 22, 2010 is a day that should live in infamy, at least among believers in limited government. On that day the federal government added its 2,000th ...(read more)
02/14/2010 12:00 AM
State and local governments face large budget deficits as revenues have stagnated and spending has remained high. To reduce deficits, large savings can ...(read more)
02/14/2010 12:00 AM
A new study from the National Academy of Sciences looks at the federal government’s finances and lays out different paths the nation might take in ...(read more)
02/01/2010 12:00 AM
State and local governments face large budget deficits as revenues have stagnated and spending has remained at high levels. To reduce deficits, large savings ...(read more)
06/01/2009 12:00 AM
President Barack Obama has introduced his federal budget plan for the coming years, and it includes large increases in spending, taxes, and debt.Building ...(read more)
06/01/2009 12:00 AM
The reason the private sector is more efficient than government is not because it doesn’t make mistakes, but because it has mechanisms to purge mistakes ...(read more)
12/19/2008 12:00 AM
The U.S. economy is in recession, and federal policymakers want to help by applying some old-fashioned Keynesian medicine. They are considering a “stimulus” ...(read more)
04/01/2008 12:00 AM
Amid growing concerns about U.S. economic competitiveness, policymakers are awakening to the fact that America has one of the world's most inefficient corporate ...(read more)
11/01/2007 12:00 AM
The U.S. Treasury Department held a conference July 26 regarding the growing uncompetitiveness of the U.S. corporate tax system.
Scholars and heads of ...(read more)
11/01/2007 12:00 AM
The nation's 16 million state and local government workers earned an average of $61,727 in total compensation (wages plus benefits) in 2006, 11 percent ...(read more)
11/01/2007 12:00 AM
Amid growing concerns about U.S. competitiveness, policymakers are awakening to the fact that America has one of the world’s most inefficient corporate ...(read more)
08/01/2007 12:00 AM
In the past two decades, Ireland has turned from a poverty-stricken economic backwater into the "Celtic Tiger" of Europe.
The lessons of Ireland apply ...(read more)
05/22/2007 12:00 AM
In recent years, members of Congress have
inserted thousands of pork-barrel spending projects
into bills to reward interests in their home
states. But ...(read more)
05/01/2007 12:00 AM
The alternative minimum tax (AMT) is a federal
income tax imposed on top of the basic income tax. The
two income taxes have different deductions, exemptions,
and ...(read more)
02/01/2007 12:00 AM
The federal government has added a net 271 new subsidy programs since 2000, the largest increase since the 1960s.
There are 1,696 subsidy programs in ...(read more)
10/01/2006 12:00 AM
The proliferation of special interest spending in the
federal budget in recent years has created much waste and
corruption. Politicians have helped special ...(read more)
09/12/2006 12:00 AM
It is well known that the federal government is amassing large amounts of debt, but state and local governments are piling up debt as well.
Total state ...(read more)
07/01/2006 12:00 AM
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04/01/2006 12:00 AM
The nation's 16 million state and local government workers form a large, growing, and well-compensated class in society. State and local workers earned ...(read more)
01/01/2006 12:00 AM
President George W. Bush's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform has proposed two plans to modernize the tax system. Both plans would take steps to simplify ...(read more)
12/01/2005 12:00 AM
In his newly released book, Chris Edwards, director of tax policy at the Cato Institute, details ways to cut 100 federal agencies, increase freedom, and ...(read more)
10/01/2005 12:00 AM
10/01/2005 12:00 AM
"Pork" spending by Congress has exploded in recent years. The $286 billion highway bill passed in July was bloated with 6,371 special projects inserted ...(read more)
09/01/2005 12:00 AM
