Although government spending provides citizens with many important benefits, such benefits must be weighed against the disincentivizing effects of increased labor taxes.

Richard Rogerson discussed the important questions concerning the optimal size and scope of federal spending.

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.

In his just-published The Impact of Labor Taxes on Labor Supply (AEI Press, 2010), Arizona State University economist Richard Rogerson warns that what the government does with tax revenues influences how much people work.

The following is a summary highlighting testimony by AEI Director of Economic Policy Studies Kevin Hassett to the Joint Economic Committee at a hearing entitled "How the Taxation of Capital Affects Growth and Employment."

What have economists learned from the Bush tax cuts and other tax policies that can inform tax policy debates in the next decade?

What have economists learned from the Bush tax cuts and other tax policies that can inform tax policy debates in the next decade?