Taxes

Politics

Big Government from the Back Bench

Radley Balko | 11.14.2006 12:59 PM

Policy

Behold, I Am a Dry Tree

Jesse Walker | 11.13.2006 9:38 AM

Politics

What Do Taxpayers Want?

Brian Doherty | 11.9.2006 1:47 PM

Policy

New York City Still Has the Country's Most Expensive Cigarettes

Jacob Sullum | 11.8.2006 12:12 PM

Policy

Cheap Drinks Save Lives!

Kerry Howley | 11.2.2006 11:58 AM

Politics

Cow-dung Economics Guide California's Oil Tax Initiative

An open letter to a tech billionaire who wants to ding oil company profits

Shikha Dalmia | 9.29.2006 3:43 PM

Policy

Tax and Lend

Small-business subsidies

Kerry Howley | 8.20.2006 10:48 AM

Policy

Pay by the Mile

Lose a gas tax, lose your privacy?

Brian Doherty | 7.20.2006 1:53 PM

Policy

Bush Turns More Into Less

The president's tax-driven deficit reduction is worse than nothing

Veronique de Rugy | 7.17.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

The Billionaire Apparatchik

Warren Buffett does not believe anyone [else] has the right to be as rich as he is.

J. Freire | 7.6.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Bad Education

The high cost of "free" preschool.

Lisa Snell | 6.5.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

The President's Rotten Record on Trade

Why George W. Bush is the most protectionist president since Herbert Hoover

Bruce Bartlett | 6.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Data: Filing Fee

Jacob Sullum | 5.5.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

April 15: America's 6-Billion-Hour Day

Why a mugger is better than the IRS

Jacob Sullum | 4.12.2006 9:54 AM

Policy

Breaking the Levy

An illegal phone tax.

Kerry Howley | 4.1.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

A Bad Tax With Good Timing

The unsung virtues of the Alternative Minimum Tax

Jonathan Rauch | 3.20.2006 4:23 PM

Politics

Hernando De Soto Interview

Dario Fernandez-Morera | 2.22.2006 1:00 PM

Policy

Happiness Is…Higher Taxes

Is one man's productivity another man's pollution?

Will Wilkinson | 2.1.2006 12:00 AM

Policy

Better Not Shop Around

Online cigarette sales.

Jacob Sullum | 2.1.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

Why Republicans Can't Cut Spending

The GOP switch from government-shrinking to machine-building has backfired.

Jonathan Rauch | 1.23.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

Outsourcing City Hall

A leaner, more efficient way to push people around.

Jesse Walker | 1.3.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

Giving Away the Store to Get a Store

Tax increment financing is no bargain for taxpayers.

Daniel McGraw | 1.1.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

The Gentle Persuader

The long shadow of Alan Greenspan.

Jeff Taylor | 1.1.2006 12:00 AM

Politics

Balance Sheet

Jeff Taylor | 12.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Human Sacrifice Yes! Political Sacrifice No!

California has come a long way since the recall.

Tim Cavanaugh | 11.11.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Inherit the Windfall

Shikha Dalmia | 11.9.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Reason Express

Vol. 8 No. 40

Jeff Taylor | 10.11.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

A Flood of Red Ink

The fiscal fallout from Hurricane Katrina

Jacob Sullum | 9.23.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

How to Be Inhuman

What are the limits to biotech modification?

Ronald Bailey | 9.21.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Trade, Not Aid

Farm protectionism threatens farms in Africa, wallets in America, and lives everywhere

Christopher Preble and Marian Tupy | 6.17.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

A Fistful of Lard

The "fatophobia" backlash

Cathy Young | 5.10.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Social Security's Progressive Paradox

Retirement "insurance" as a Rube Goldberg machine

Julian Sanchez | 5.2.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Demolishing Sports Welfare

Two court cases could mean the end of publicly funded stadiums.

Daniel McGraw | 5.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Tax Days with Morrie

Mitch Albom avoids an audit.

Jesse Walker | 4.13.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Big-Government Gridlock

If law is a highway, Congress will ride it way too long

Gabriel Roth | 4.7.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Gimme Shelters

Benefits of tax havens.

Julian Sanchez | 3.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Revolting Development

Can the Supreme Court stop the spread of blight?

Jacob Sullum | 2.25.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Revive Gramm-Rudmann

Complete print edition now available in digital version on NewsStand.com

Jonathan Rauch | 2.13.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Saving Graces

The case for private retirement accounts does not depend on Social Security's bankruptcy

Jacob Sullum | 2.4.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Four More Years!?!?!

7 high hopes and 7 big fears for Bush's second term.

Reason Staff | 2.1.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Rant: Live Free and Die of Boredom

Is "economic freedom" just another word for nothing left to do?

Nick Gillespie | 2.1.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

All That Have Not Fins and Scales

Imports are an abomination, according to domestic shrimpers

Kerry Howley | 1.20.2005 12:00 AM

Politics

Do Drug Companies Kill Poor People?

How for-profit medicine helps even the poorest

Ronald Bailey | 1.5.2005 12:00 AM

Policy

Uncle Sam's Christmas Special

Widows and orphans robbed in tax code switcheroo

Ted Balaker | 12.23.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Thatcher's Lesson for Bush

Good plan, Republicans, but it didn't work in Britain

Jonathan Rauch | 12.18.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

The Last Gaffe?

The president's chief economic adviser has a problem with the truth

Jacob Sullum | 12.10.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

Revolt of the Porcupines!

The Free State Project wants libertarians to take over New Hampshire. Is this a revolutionary plan or a pipe dream?

Brian Doherty | 12.1.2004 12:00 AM

Politics

The First Free State Project

The brief, tumultuous history of Franklin.

Jackson Kuhl | 12.1.2004 12:00 AM