The UK government generally spends more than it raises in tax. To fill this gap it borrows money, but that has to be paid ...

Steve Mufson had a piece in the Washington Post Outlook section this past weekend suggesting that the $172 billion that the U.S. government has spent on early stage energy research since 1961 has ...

Government spending is by far the biggest, most freedom and economy-sapping tax of all. While Larry Ellison, Elon Musk and Reed Hastings will work at all sorts of tax rates, they can’t innovate ...

You're probably tired of hearing about the U.S. government's looming debt crisis, because it's a continuing backdrop to political conversations in this country. Unfortunately, the government's debt ...

The U.S. Congress appears poised to avoid another government shutdown later this month by passing compromise bills that would soften spending cuts sought by the Trump administration, according to ...