You Are Invited to a Major Conference on the Impact of Government Spending

On April 7, the Cato Institute will be hosting an important conference on the economic implications of big government. We have a great line-up of speakers, including economists who will look at the evidence and lawmakers who will discuss different ways of restraining the growth of the public sector. This post is largely for readers [...]

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A Victory for the Laffer Curve, a Defeat for England’s Economy

A new study from the Adam Smith Institute in the United Kingdom provides overwhelming evidence that class-warfare tax policy is grossly misguided and self-destructive. The authors examine the likely impact of the 10-percentage point increase in the top income tax rate, which was imposed as an election-year stunt by former  Gordon Brown and then kept [...]

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