Public Policy Studies
“The State Spending Spree of the 1990s” (with Stephen Moore), Cato Institute Policy Analysis,
no. 344 (May 13, 1999).
“Corporate Welfare,” in Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 106th
Congress (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1999).
“Costly Agencies,” in Cato Handbook for Congress: Policy Recommendations for the 106th
Congress (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 1999).
“A Fiscal Policy Report Card on America‟s Governors: 1998” (with Stephen Moore), Cato
Institute Policy Analysis, no. 315 (September 3, 1998).
“The Hidden Burden of Taxation: How the Government Reduces Take-Home Pay,” Cato
Institute Policy Analysis, no. 302 (April 15, 1998).
“Virginia‟s So-Called Crisis in Education and Transportation Spending” (with Stephen Moore),
Virginia Institute for Public Policy (Sterling, VA), Policy Analysis, no. 2 (January 12, 1998).
“Federal Aid to Dependent Corporations: Clinton and Congress Fail to Eliminate Business
Subsidies” (with Stephen Moore), Cato Institute Briefing Paper, no. 28 (May 1, 1997).
“A Tax Reform Agenda for Virginia,” Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy (Fairfax,
VA), February 1997.
“Corporate Welfare,” in Cato Handbook for Congress: 105th Congress (Washington, D.C.: Cato
Institute, 1997).
“Costly Agencies,” in Cato Handbook for Congress: 105th Congress (Washington, D.C.: Cato
Institute, 1997).
“Tax Cuts and Balanced Budgets: Lessons from the States” (with Stephen Moore), Cato Institute
Fact Sheet, September 17, 1996.
“A Fiscal Policy Report Card on America‟s Governors: 1996” (with Stephen Moore), Cato
Institute Policy Analysis, no. 257 (July 26, 1996).
“How Corporate Welfare Won: Clinton and Congress Retreat from Cutting Business Subsidies”
(with Stephen Moore), Cato Institute Policy Analysis, no. 254 (May 15, 1996).
“Restoring Opportunity to Arkansas” (with Stephen Moore), Arkansas Policy Foundation, Policy
Study, Spring 1996.
“Ending Corporate Welfare As We Know It” (with Stephen Moore), Cato Institute Policy
Analysis, no. 225 (May 12, 1995).
“The Kindest Cut of All: The Welfare State on Auto-Pilot Through Current Services Budgeting,”
Institute for Policy Innovation (Lewisville, TX), Issue Brief, March 1995.
“Unfunded Mandates,” in The Cato Handbook for Congress (Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute,
1995).
“Missouri‟s Hancock II Amendment: The Case for Real Reform,” Cato Institute Briefing Paper,
no. 20 (October 17, 1994).
“A Prescription for Economic Revival in Maryland” (with Stephen Moore), Loyola Institute for
Business and Economic Research (Loyola College, Baltimore, MD), September 7, 1994.
“Did You Get Your Money‟s Worth? A Taxpayer‟s Guide for Evaluating Government,” Institute
for Policy Innovation (Lewisville, TX), Issue Brief, September 1994.
“Taming Leviathan: Are Tax and Spending Limits the Answer?” Cato Institute Policy Analysis,
no. 213 (July 25, 1994).
“Red Ink Rising in Texas: Danger Signals in the State Budget, 1980-1995” (with Stephen Moore
and Brian Roberts), Texas Public Policy Foundation, Spring 1994.
“Sales vs. Income Taxes: The Verdict of Economists,” Mackinac Center for Public Policy
(Midland, MI), February 23, 1994.
“A Fiscal Policy Report Card on America‟s Governors: 1994” (with Stephen Moore), Cato
Institute Policy Analysis, no. 203 (January 28, 1994).
“A Prosperity Agenda for Michigan‟s Cities” (with Stephen Moore), Mackinac Center for Public
Policy (Midland, MI), November 1993.
“Anatomy of a Budget Crisis: A Comparative Analysis of Florida‟s Fiscal Policies, 1980-1993,”
James Madison Institute (Tallahassee, FL), Backgrounder, no. 8 (June 1993).
“The Myth of America‟s Underfunded Cities” (with Stephen Moore), Cato Institute Policy
Analysis, no. 188 (February 22, 1993).
Op-Eds and Other Articles
“Which is Better: Cutting Income Tax Rates or Increasing the Exemption?” Mackinac Center for
Public Policy, Viewpoint, no. 99-15, April 5, 1999.
“End Corporate Welfare As We Know It,” IPI Insights, Institute for Policy Innovation, Spring
1999.
“America‟s Rising Family Tax Burden,” in Legislators’ Guide to Children’s Issues 1999, Pacific
Research Institute for Public Policy, February 1999.
“Generational Accounting: How Fiscal Policy Is Impoverishing Our Children‟s Future,” in
Legislators’ Guide to Children’s Issues 1999, Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy,
February 1999.
“Who‟s Been Profligate, Who‟s Been Prudent?” (with Stephen Moore), Wall Street Journal,
September 3, 1998.
“Government‟s Hidden Bite Out of Michiganians‟ Take-Home Pay,” Mackinac Center for Public
Policy, Viewpoint, no. 98-16, June 1, 1998.
“Government‟s Hidden Bite Out of Californians‟ Take-Home Pay,” Pacific Research Institute for
Public Policy, Action Alert, no. 3, May 29, 1998.
“Oregon Employers‟ Hidden Taxes Cost Jobs,” The (Portland) Oregonian, April 23, 1998.
“Concealed Pay Bites,” Washington Times, April 14, 1998.
“How to Expose Hidden Taxation,” Investor’s Business Daily, April 9, 1998.
“Supermajority: A Super Idea,” Bergen (NJ) Record, Sunday April 5, 1998.
“Creativity in Crisis Creation” (with Stephen Moore), Washington Times, Sunday February 8,
1998.
“Why Not Repeal Car Tax, All of It -- Now?” (with Stephen Moore), Richmond (VA) TimesDispatch, January 21, 1998.
“Abolish the Car Tax Immediately by Curbing Spending” (with Stephen Moore), (Norfolk)
Virginian-Pilot, November 29, 1997.
“How to Ditch the Car Tax Instantly” (with Stephen Moore), Washington Times, November 8,
1997.
“The Big Businessmen Who Want to Soak Taxpayers Big-Time” (with Stephen Moore),
Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch, September 12, 1997.
“Let‟s Swap the Income Tax for a Sales Tax,” Mackinac Center for Public Policy, Viewpoint, no.
97-25, August 4, 1997.
“Taxation Without Justice,” The Freeman, July 1997.
“Virginia Can Afford to Cut Taxes,” Washington Post, Sunday May 25, 1997.
“Tax Cut Imperative for the Free State” (with Stephen Moore), Washington Times, March 7,
1997.
“Can We Afford the Dole Tax-Cut Plan?” Investor’s Business Daily, August 9, 1996.
“Governors‟ Report Cards on State Finances” (with Stephen Moore), Wall Street Journal, July
24, 1996.
“Corporate Welfare Survival Index,” Washington Times, Sunday March 10, 1996.
“States Leading the Way on Tax Cuts,” Washington Times, Sunday October 15, 1995.
“Public Trough Still Provides Lots of Pork” (with Steve Tidrick, budget analyst at the
Progressive Policy Institute), Dallas Morning News, August 7, 1995.
“Congressional Accounting Now Favors Big Spenders,” Human Events, June 2, 1995.
“Block Grants? Fire the Federal Middleman” (with Lawrence Reed, president of the Mackinac
Center for Public Policy, Midland, MI), Detroit News, May 5, 1995.
“Clinton-Care Would Sicken the Young and Healthy,” Generation Next (Washington, D.C.),
October/November 1994.
“The Great Tax Revolt of 1994” (with Stephen Moore), Reason, October 1994 (cover story).
“A Tax Break to Revitalize Maryland” (with Stephen Moore), Washington Times, September 9,
1994.
“Tax Revolt Is Alive, Well and Spreading,” Indianapolis Star, August 1, 1994.
Review of Cities without Suburbs by David Rusk, The Freeman, May 1994.
“States to Feds: Mind Your Own Business,” Insight, March 14, 1994.
“Beyond the Budget Edges: Betrayal by Mandate,” Washington Times, February 9, 1994.
“Big Taxers Took a Beating in „93 Elections” (with Stephen Moore), Human Events, November
27, 1993.
“A Taxing Problem for U.S. Cities,” Chicago Tribune, October 27, 1993.
“The Federal Government Should Follow the Budget Example of the States,” Greensboro News
and Record, August 12, 1993.
“Rethinking Government Budgets: Detroit — Size, scope of city spending must be reduced”
(with Stephen Moore), Detroit Free Press, April 14, 1993.
“Big Spending Is Curse of U.S. Cities,” Human Events, August 15, 1992.
“North Carolina Doesn‟t Do Right by Its Poor Taxpayers,” Greensboro News and Record,
March 22, 1992.