This election, Americans will not only be choosing politicians for office but also whether to increase or decrease taxes in many places.

The Congressional Budget Office released a report today on changes in income, benefit payments, and federal taxes by income group since 1979.

Spending and deficits used to be a battleground in federal elections as each party suggested reforms and blamed the other for fiscal irresponsibility.

The Congressional Budget Office has released new estimates. Federal government spending jumped from $4.5 trillion in fiscal 2019 to $6.6 trillion in fiscal 2020, as shown in the chart below. That huge increase was financed by borrowing, the costs of which will land on taxpayers down the road.

I testified today to the Congressional Oversight Commission regarding federal and Federal Reserve aid to state and local governments.

There are no clouds in the central Oregon sky today, but we are nonetheless living in dim times.

California leaders are in the news for passing a misguided law that requires most independent contractors to be treated as employees, and then realizing how harmful that is and passing another law exempting dozens of politically important industries from the mandate.

Another week, another news story about supposedly imploding state‐local government budgets.

The restaurant industry has been hit hard by the health crisis and recession.

The Trump administration is threatening to cut federal aid to cities that do not follow its approach to policing and civil unrest.