Michael Chapman

Michael Chapman is a senior editor at the Cato Institute. His reporting has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Boston Globe, Investor’s Business Daily, Washington Times, National Review, and Congressional Quarterly. He earned his B.A. in English Literature, with Special Honors, from the University of Chicago.

Tariff Advocates Rarely Talk About How Tariffs Punish Consumers

Politicians who support tariffs and other forms of government intervention in the economy frequently emphasize reshoring, trade deficits, cheap imports, and national security, but they rarely talk about consumers.

NPR Should Not Be Subsidized by Taxpayers

NPR Should Not Be Subsidized by Taxpayers

It would not matter whether NPR was liberally biased or conservatively biased. The bottom line is that if politicians (bureaucrats) control the funding of the news, then the news likely will be politicized.

Industrial Policy, Whether Republican or Democrat, Is Anti-Liberty

Industrial Policy, Whether Republican or Democrat, Is Anti-Liberty

Although the incoming Trump administration says it will cut taxes, reduce regulations, and slash wasteful government spending—all of which are good things—it also intends to enact an industrial policy to bolster US manufacturing, using interventionist tools such as tariffs, subsidies, Buy American rules, and similar commands—all of which are bad things and inherently anti-liberty.

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