Is government debt a problem?
Though many argue otherwise, one of our biggest problems - both today and in the future - is the burden of government spending
- 3 April 2014
Confessions of Spendaholic?
Tax Freedom Day lands on May 30th this year, a full four weeks after it landed in 1966. Think about that...
- 30 May 2013
Government waste hits new levels as local council spends £4m on small maintenance contractor
A bad day at the office for Kingston Council
- 13 May 2013
Why did America’s economy boom when Reagan and Clinton reduced the burden of spending?
Government spending grew much slower under Reagan and Clinton than it has during the Bush-Obama years, yet nobody would claim the economy in recent years has been more robust than it was in the 1980s and 1990s
- 7 March 2013
NHS to employ 1 in 8 Brits by 2060, account for 50 percent of government spending
Britain's National Health Service could end up devouring 50 percent of UK government spending by 2060, says a new report
- 1 February 2013
Ween off the spending Dave, don’t lecture
Instead of lecturing about morality, David Cameron should put the state on a diet
- 4 January 2013
Bank of Finland: Gov spending causing stagnation in EU
These findings should be read by every glum libertarian and every sad conservative
- 13 December 2012
Lobbying + socialism = destruction?
Are lobbyists to blame for the myriad of spending programs that have drained the US treasury?
- 11 October 2012
Government spending: Kicking the habit
Like a smoker, the government has an addiction. Perhaps it should have its own Stoptober?
- 21 September 2012
Podcast: We Need To Talk... about Galloway, Government spending and Syria
Raheem Kassam discusses topical issues with Christian May and John Phelan
- 24 August 2012
Trust the market: government underspends mean we can afford tax rebates
Government spending is taxation, and government spending is not the be all and end all of growth promotion.
- 23 July 2012
FAQs on the Government's economic policy
What is our economic situation? What is Government policy? How do we carry on spending billions we haven't got? What about a plan for growth? Answers to these questions and many more...
- 6 July 2012
Why Charlie Elphicke's priorities are wrong
It ought not to be the job of the Conservative party to define ‘fairness’ as “tax everybody, everywhere”. Leave defending that sort of nonsense to Labour and the Liberal Democrats
- 20 March 2012
Brown failed. Continuity Brownism will fail, too
Far from a new start, under the Coalition macroeconomic policy has remained fundamentally unchanged from what was going on under Gordon Brown, writes Douglas Carswell MP
- 14 February 2012
ECB research shows that government spending undermines economic performance
The number one message from this ECB research is that lawmakers – at the very least – need to follow Mitchell’s Golden Rule and make sure that government spending grows slower than the private sector
- 14 December 2011
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