Chris

Chris Edwards

Biography

Chris Edwards is the director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute, and editor of www.DownsizingGovernment.org. Before joining Cato, Edwards was a senior economist on the congressional Joint Economic Committee, a manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers, and an economist with the Tax Foundation.

Articles

Oct 10, 2018

Best and Worst Governors 2018

Feb 03, 2017

Cut Corporate Taxes and Corporate Welfare

Jul 01, 2016

Timid GOP Postal Reforms

Apr 01, 2016

Privatize the USPS

Aug 01, 2015

GOP Candidates and Spending Cuts

Jan 21, 2015

Obama Capital Gains Tax Proposal

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Jan 14, 2015

Highways and the Federal Gas Tax

Jan 09, 2015

Museum of Government Failure

Jan 02, 2015

Senator Coburn’s Final Report

Dec 01, 2014

Improve Government: Repeal Aid to States

Nov 17, 2014

Highway Bill: The Unmentionable Option

Nov 03, 2014

Make America Safer: Shut Down the Department of Homeland Security

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Oct 20, 2014

Accuracy of Macroeconomic Forecasts

Oct 19, 2014

Department of Homeland Security: Who Needs It?

Oct 13, 2014

Governors Make Fiscal Progress

Oct 12, 2014

Governor Brownback’s Tax Cuts

Sep 28, 2014

Reagan and the Air Traffic Controllers

Jul 07, 2014

Federal Highway Spending

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Jul 05, 2014

Independence in 1776; Dependence in 2014

Jun 23, 2014

Border Patrol Spending

Jun 09, 2014

Federal Firing Rate by Department

May 26, 2014

Bush’s Big Government Legacy: DHS

May 12, 2014

Mad Magazine vs. Hollywood

Apr 28, 2014

WaPo’s Bridge Story Is Structurally Deficient

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Apr 21, 2014

Government Keeps Growing

Apr 14, 2014

Ten Ways the Income Tax Harms Civil Liberties

Apr 13, 2014

Jeb Bush’s Fiscal Record

Apr 07, 2014

What Do American Indians Deserve: Name Changes or Policy Changes?

Mar 30, 2014

Bureaucracy, Boondoggles, and Bad Behavior

Mar 24, 2014

The Federal Spying Budget

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Mar 02, 2014

Folly of Federal Flood Insurance

Dec 29, 2013

Low Job Satisfaction in the Federal Bureaucracy

Dec 16, 2013

More on the Ryan-Murray Budget Deal

Dec 02, 2013

Congress Should Abolish the TSA — It’s Time to Privatize Airport Screening

Oct 21, 2013

Back to Spending as Usual?

Oct 14, 2013

Tea Party Republicans Resist D.C. Hazing

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Oct 06, 2013

The Income Tax: A Century Is Enough

Sep 24, 2013

Federal Spending and Debt, 1790 to 2050

Apr 22, 2013

Food Stamp Fraud and Twinkies

Mar 18, 2013

What to Cut Next

Feb 24, 2013

Are Spending Cuts Good Politics?

Feb 18, 2013

Obama’s Minimum Wage Plan

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Feb 13, 2013

Federal Infrastructure for Private Profit

Feb 11, 2013

Federal Spending Has Always Been Wasteful

Jan 28, 2013

Brick Wall of Local Bureaucracy

Jan 27, 2013

Obama Overplays “We” in Inaugural Speech

Dec 03, 2012

What Filibuster ‘Reform’ Is Really About

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