Are the Trumpistas Seeking To Shrink the IRS — or Actually Sink It?

Conservative economists have been treating the 18th-century Scottish philosopher Adam Smith as their “free market” hero for quite some time now. But in his own time, as Steve Wamhoff of the progressive Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy recently noted, Smith took positions that today’s free-marketeers regularly gag on. Smith, for instance, felt strongly that the [...]