Michael F. Cannon On October 24 and 25, 2025, the Cato Institute will host its third Cato Health Policy Workshop, a paper workshop for master’s and PhD candidates on topics relating to health policy. The workshop seeks to encourage participants to approach health policy questions from a market-based perspective. Through a competitive selection process, Cato will offer up to twelve scholars the opportunity to present and receive feedback on research from their peers and distinguished academics. Papers should be […]
Adam N. Michel Another Tax Day — and amid the April procrastination and paperwork, an annual reminder of how disconnected we are from the true cost of government. , For many Americans, filing taxes feels like a payday rather than a moment of reckoning. That’s because of a system we rarely question: automatic tax withholding. Withholding, created during World War II to fund the war effort, has made federal, state and local income-tax collection a seamless, nearly invisible […]
Tweet Here’s a letter that I sent last week to the New York Times. Editor: Oren Cass – conversing with Matthew Rose, Jason Furman, Rebecca Patterson, and Lawrence Summers – expressed support for Pres. Trump’s ten percent global tariff because, as he asserts, “the United States has been running large trade deficits that have weakened domestic manufacturing” (“‘I Hope I Am Wrong, but I Am Pretty Pessimistic’: Four Economists Dissect Trump’s Tariffs,” April 11). The evidence refutes Mr. […]
I’ve often thought that the UK hasn’t had any good leaders since Lord Salisbury, the last prime minister of Queen Victoria’s reign, who died in 1902. Lord Salisbury (Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil) was a prudent and sensible man who understood that most ambitious schemes undertaken by people in government are likely to be ruinous. Recognizing the folly of getting into alliances with Europe’s Continental powers, he maintained the policy of “splendid isolation.” His pessimistic view of government scheming […]
What is a proper libertarian foreign policy? Murray Rothbard wrote that first and foremost, a peaceful and realistic policy means not invading other countries and working to end wars as quickly as possible.
The Cato Institute just posted this podcast in which I was interviewed about the lawsuit the Liberty Justice Center and I filed on Monday on behalf of five US businesses harmed by Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. The podcast was recorded before we filed the suit. Nonetheless, I think I was able to give a helpful overview of the issues. Here it is: The post Cato Institute Podcast on Our Lawsuit Challenging Trump’s “Liberation Day” Tariffs appeared first […]
Whats to stop a statist from saying the government owns america? The land, maybe even the people. In the same way o own my house and therefore make the rules, and can basically he a monarch, i could even institute some fake ass representative democracy if i wanted to. But instead of just me, its a group of people who own america. Is there some sort of libertarian justification for the status quo, or even out right tyranny? […]
Shortly before last fall’s presidential election, Elon Musk breezily estimated that a second Trump administration could reduce annual federal spending by “at least” $2 trillion. At a press conference in February, the billionaire entrepreneur, who at that point had been unofficially overseeing the cost-cutting project known as the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) for a few weeks, cut that estimate in half, saying he expected that DOGE would find about $1 trillion in annual savings by attacking “waste […]
Adam N. Michel As Congress debates how to extend the expiring 2017 Trump tax cuts, a new poll from the Cato Institute suggests the American people support an approach that pairs tax relief with significant spending cuts. The House and Senate have passed a budget framework to make the 2017 tax cuts permanent, increase spending on immigration and defense, and, if the House has its way, cut as much as $2 trillion in other spending. While the Senate […]