This article is the first part of a two-part examination of the contentious issue of how state governments' provision of goods and services to the public should be taxed under a VAT.

At this AEI event, Bruce Bartlett will discuss his new book, which proposes that a value-added tax is the most effective way to improve the nation's fiscal imbalance.

Many provisions of the tax code are barely distinguishable from spending programs. For example, congressional spending programs are often put into effect as "tax credits" and eventually become classified as "tax expenditures." Should we draw a line between a tax and tax expenditure? Scholar Bruce Bartlett of the...

Kevin A. Hassett reviews Econoclasts, by Brian Domitrovic, and The New American Economy, by Bruce Bartlett.

A review of Bruce Bartlett's Impostor.

It is remarkable that liberals are lionizing Robert Byrd, even though he represented the alleged structural problems in the Senate and the practice of earmarks, and abandoned his bigoted principles in order to keep power.

If the source of our economic problems is the housing glut, why not save money on the stimulus and buy up (and demolish) excess housing stock? Call it "exurban renewal."

For every Democrat you show me who is not a Republican, I'll show you a Republican who's not a Republican.