In another sign that voters are becoming tougher critics on proposals to raise taxes, voters in Colorado overwhelmingly rejected an income and sales tax increase designed to direct additional money to public education. The proposal would have raised the state's flat...

Can't someone on the "This Week" roundtable bring this up?   The Krugman Fallacy By Jonah Goldberg Posted on September 14, 2011 4:08 PM Stan, I’m afraid you’re heading down a blind alley. You cannot hold pre-NYT Economist Paul Krugman up to the current version....

Once in a while, seemingly when I need it most, I can't remember the list of President Obama's "big ticket" policy enactments. Thankfully, Michael Boskin listed them in a column in the Wall Street Journal on September 8, 2011: $825 billion stimulus package...

The Arizona Republic ran a front page article highlighting the surge in lottery ticket sales. According to the article, in FY2011, the state sold $584 million worth of tickets - the most ever. In this downtrodden economy, one might surmise that the spike in sales is...

Let's hope this isn't an indication of where things are headed in the next legislative session, or even moderately reflects Gov. Brewer's position. As reported in the Arizona Capitol Times: Arizona Commerce Authority CEO Don Cardon (no relation to Wil) offered...

Bill Gates' straight talk on solar subsidies was refreshing and spot on. Courtesy of the Wall Street Journal and from an interview in Wired magazine. [Chris] Anderson: When you look at the big picture [for the future of energy], where should we be focusing besides...

Narrowly targeted tax incentives like those for ethanol producers are really just spending items, the expenses of which could just as easily appear on the spending side of the federal budget ledger. This is why the elimination of these credits should not require an...

At the state level, the Arizona Free Enterprise Club led the charge against targeted tax incentives for movie-makers. No longer do Arizona taxpayers have to pay movie makers to make movies. The federal government should follow this lead. Call them by any variety of...

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This morning, the US Supreme Court struck down Arizona's "matching funds" provision in the Clean Elections law by a 5-4 decision. You can read the opinion here. The case is Arizona Free Enterprise Club's Freedom Club PAC v. Bennett.

Americans for Tax Reform wanted to sum up the debate about ethanol subsidies as a tax increase vs. the status quo. If you voted for Sen. Tom Coburn's (R-OK) amendment to end the $5 billion a year subsidy for ethanol producers, you support higher taxes. Coburn's...