The Heartland Institute

The mission of the Show-Me Institute is: “Advancing liberty with responsibility by promoting market solutions for Missouri public policy.” This study addresses an important issue with implications for public policy: retirement plans. It compares defined benefit (DB) and defined contribution (DC) retirement plans in order to assess ...

It is widely believed that fiscal policy plays an important role in determining economic growth, but the specific policies that would best foster growth are hotly debated. This study provides a review of the recent economic literature that examines the effect of government fiscal policy actions on economic growth. Because the ...

Key considerations in evaluating the role of tax policy in economic growth include: Taxes and economic activity are inversely related: Recent research provides new evidence of an inverse relationship between taxes and various measures of economic activity. Studies have examined a wide range of economic variables, such as per-capita ...