Chris Edwards

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE Despite rising federal deficits, Congress is set to pass another budget-busting spending bill. This time it is a $19 billion package...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE As the 2020 presidential election campaign heats up, get ready for a torrent of claims about incomes, wealth, and inequality. The...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE The exodus of the wealthy from high-tax Connecticut continues, according to the Wall Street Journal: After four years on the market, and three price...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE Tracy Gordon of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center writes interesting columns on taxes, fiscal federalism, and other economic issues. Before Congress...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE Tax Day is here. In a column about this unhappy day, Christine Emba of the Washington Post provides her views regarding income tax filing...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE Federal tax returns for 2018 are due April 15 in most states. With your filing, you can see how your taxes...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE Housing prices have soared in many U.S. and international cities, which has generated affordability problems for middle- and lower-income families. An article...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE Here is the framing of countless news articles on infrastructure: the streets have potholes; the federal gas tax has not been...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE The 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act included numerous pro-growth provisions, but it did little to simplify the tax code. Business...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE A damaging divide in democracy is between the profusive promises of politicians and the pathetic performances of bureaucracies. Big government schemes...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE The OECD has released results from a survey of 22,000 people in 21 countries regarding their views of government social programs. Governments in the...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE President Trump’s new budget proposes to increase federal spending on infrastructure by $200 billion over 10 years. Many members of Congress are supportive....

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE Canada privatized its air traffic control (ATC) system in 1996. Today, Nav Canada is on the leading edge of ATC innovation...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE President Trump releases his budget for 2020 today. The budget includes major cuts to domestic programs to deal with rising deficits,...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE The Trump administration has released its federal budget for 2020. The document lays out taxing and spending proposals and provides projections through 2029. The...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE The Wall Street Journal reports: ECB economists have cut their economic growth forecast for 2019 to 1.1% from the 1.7% they had expected in...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE A Wall Street Journal article on an upgrade to a Midwest rail line illustrates the shortcomings of pumping tax dollars into passenger rail. Amtrak’s route...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE Washington Governor Jay Inslee is throwing his hat in the ring for President of the United States. The central focus of...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE The federal government does a lot of things poorly, including trying to run businesses such as an electric utility, a postal system, and...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE The federal government spends $13 billion a year on subsidies for local rail and bus transit systems. This spending should be...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE In reviewing the Green New Deal, the Wall Street Journal’s Greg Ip says, “Because the private market has no incentive to reduce carbon...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren told CNBC the other day: “I want these billionaires to stop being freeloaders … I want them to pick...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE It has become fashionable for Washington politicians to bash corporate executives—their decisions, their motivations, and their personal earnings. But when you...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE A contradiction in left-wing politics for decades has been the professed support of community, diversity, localism, and democracy on the one...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE President Trump delivers his State of the Union address tonight and will surely claim credit for the strong economy. He has...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE There is good news for taxpayers regarding federal disability programs. The strong economy and administrative reforms have begun reducing caseloads for the Social...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE The federal shutdown revealed some of the ways that the government needlessly shackles the economy through subsidies and regulations. The microbrew...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE Can’t anyone do anything in this country without federal subsidies? A friend emailed me a local news story from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania:...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE Ninety years ago, two-thirds of government spending in America was state-local and one-third was federal. Today, it is the reverse with...

CHRIS EDWARDS, CATO INSTITUTE We are in the fourth week of the partial federal shutdown, which is starting to disrupt the broader economy because the...