Tag: Chris Edwards

VIDEO: Bernie Sanders’ Tax Plan

Here Chris Edwards discusses Bernie Sanders’ tax plan on The Blaze’s The Glenn Beck Program.

Debt Disaster: It’s Different this Time

The only way to get out of a debt disaster without making hard choices about spending cuts or raising extra revenue via taxes, is...

Debt Disaster Part II

If you want the dirty details of government excess, then do what I do, talk to Chris Edwards, Director of Tax Policy Studies at...

Debt Disaster: $107,000/Household

The Cato Institute’s Chris Edwards, a featured speaker at the Cato Club Naples 2016, notes in the Cato Tax & Budget Bulletin published in...

Average Federal Compensation: $120,000

Your federal tax dollars help  support the third highest average (far from it!) paying jobs. Cato’s director of tax policy studies Chris Edwards explains: New...

Why the Federal Government Fails

My friend Chris Edwards, editor of DownsizingGovernment.org at the Cato Institute, talks about his latest Policy Analysis: Why the Federal Government Fails. Most Americans think that the federal...

A Toxic Culture with Terrible Morale

In yet another sign of incompetence, the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) has failed to detect smuggled mock explosives and banned weapons through U.S. airport...

O’Malley’s Fiscal Record: Fail

The former governor of Maryland, and former mayor of the currently burning city of Baltimore, Martin O'Malley is preparing a run for president. Here,...

Ho, Ho, Ho it’s the IRS

If you've ever been audited then you know what an unpleasant experience it is dealing with the IRS. For most of you--the successful Americans--...

#2 Largest Employer

Wal-Mart is the largest civilian employer. Guess who's number two? The post office. The USPS employs 600,000. My friend Chris Edwards at Cato explains: For...

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