Cutting government spending, repairing the federal budget process and working to reform the drivers of debt.
Promoting free market policy and opposing the heavy hand of government regulation on America’s employers and consumers.
Opposing the discriminatory taxes levied on goods and services, especially the coercive nature of taxes levied on products in order to discourage taxpayer behavior, often referred to as “sin taxes.”
In 2011, Cost of Government Day falls on August 12. Working people must toil 224 days out of the year just to meet all costs imposed by government, a full 27 days longer than 2008.
In other words, in 2011 the cost of government consumes 61.42 percent of national income.
For a pdf of the 2011 full report, click here.
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The Cost of Government Center works to educate taxpayers and policymakers on the full costs imposed by spending and government regulation by encouraging restraint in federal finance, a limited regulatory regime and elimination of discriminatory excise taxes.