Lessons From Other Countries on Spending Restraint

By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  March 4th at 05:20 PM  | 

Dan Mitchell’s latest video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity cites fascinating numbers from Canada, Ireland, Slovakia, and New Zealand on spending restraint. If you missed it, an earlier video in this series detailed how Reagan and Clinton successfully limited the growth of spending. As leadership in Washington considers ways to cut back, it’s worth looking at examples which demonstrate the kind of steps | Read More »

Sin Tax Schadenfreude

By: Dave Poff (haystack) (Diary)  |  July 7th at 11:00 AM  | 

The Reason Foundation published an article back in February ’09 looking at the failed logic of State (and Federal) Government placing such a huge reliance on Tobacco taxes as the means by which they hope to offset some of their budgetary woes in the “lean times.” They likened this broken record of failed tax policy to that of an “old vaudeville troop that can’t let | Read More »