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Tax and Budget Policy

Cato scholars examine federal, state, and local spending and tax issues from a limited government perspective. They explore the benefits of lower-rate tax systems, the distortions caused by government spending, and the dangers of rising debt. A guiding principle for budget policy is federalism, the idea that federal activities should be limited and that most government activities are better handled by the states.

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  • October 27, 2020
    Blog
    Marijuana on the Ballot
    Four states—Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota—have measures on the ballot in November to legalize recreational marijuana sales.
    By Chris Edwards
  • October 27, 2020
    Washington Examiner
    Tax Hikes Are on the Ballot
    Voters should reject tax increases at the ballot box and instead demand governments restrain their budgets as families and businesses are doing this year.
    By Chris Edwards
  • October 27, 2020
    The Dispatch
    Assessing Joe Biden’s Tax Plan
    It all strikes me as precisely the wrong policy for the United States to pursue right now.
    By Scott Lincicome
  • October 26, 2020
    Cato Daily Podcast
    Joe Biden's Tax and Spending Plans
    Joe Biden’s Tax and Spending Plans
    The assumptions underlying Biden campaign’s tax and spending plans give us a false picture of what those policies would mean for the economy. Chris Edwards explains why.
    Featuring Chris Edwards and Caleb O. Brown
  • October 23, 2020
    Blog
    Wealthy Donors and Tax Ballot Questions
    Wealthy people often campaign to raise taxes on the non-wealthy, including efforts to raise sales taxes, carbon taxes, gas taxes, soda taxes, and cigarette taxes.
    By Chris Edwards
  • October 19, 2020
    Books
    A Fiscal Cliff
    A Fiscal Cliff
    The unsustainable, and still rapidly growing, U.S. federal government debt is a classic case of ‘’in denial.” Despite numerous congressional committees, bipartisan commissions, and votes, we are no closer to a solution to the debt crisis than we were more than a decade ago. In this timely volume, scholars and policymakers assess the United States’ fiscal constraints and provide new perspectives that are desperately needed in order to solve the nation’s debt crisis.
    By John Merrifield and Barry W. Poulson
  • October 19, 2020
    Blog
    Sales and Excise Taxes on the Ballot
    There have been 20 questions to increase, cut, or limit income taxes on statewide ballots over the past decade. Voters favored the small-government side 60 percent of the time.
    By Chris Edwards
  • October 16, 2020
    The Dispatch
    Grading Trump’s Economic Policies
    For the last four years, formal U.S. economic policy has all too often resulted from frantic, messy attempts by beleaguered government officials to “backfill” disconnected policy trenches dug by presidential tweets. That’s no way to run economic policy, and it shows.
    By Scott Lincicome
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