Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards is the director of tax policy studies at the Cato Institute and a top expert on federal and state tax and budget issues.
A former senior economist on the congressional Joint Economic Committee examining tax, budget and entrepreneurship issues, he has also worked as a consultant and manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers and as an economist with the Tax Foundation. [1] He currently sits on the Advisory Council of the Democracy Institute[2] and is editor of www.downsizinggovernment.org.[1]
In the Cato Institute's Tax and Budget Bulletin in March 2010, Edwards criticised the trade unions of the growing ‘parasitical public sector’ in defence of the private sector.[3]
Publications
Articles & Opinion
- Chris Edwards, 'VA Scandal: Crisis of Big Government', The Moral Liberal, 2 June 2014.
- Chris Edwards, 'Talking Taxes with Rep. Ralph Hall', The Moral Liberal, 29 May 2014.
- Chris Edwards, 'More Infrastructure? Cut Business Taxes', The Moral Liberal, 15 May 2014.
- Chris Edwards, 'Cut Spending Because Government Hurting Nation', The Moral Liberal, 12 May 2014.
- Chris Edwards, 'WaPo’s Bridge Story Is Structurally Deficient', The Moral Liberal, 26 April 2014.
- Chris Edwards, 'White House Helicopter Fleet', The Moral Liberal, 23 April 2014.
- Chris Edwards, 'Bureaucracy, Boondoggles, and Bad Behavior', The Moral Liberal, 28 March 2014.
- Chris Edwards, 'Government Infrastructure Is Inefficient Everywhere', The Moral Liberal, 20 March 2014.
- Chris Edwards, 'The School Computer Mania', The Moral Liberal, 6 February 2014.
- Chris Edwards, 'Privatizing the Transportation Security Administration', The Moral Liberal, 22 November 2013.
- Chris Edwards, 'Take the Public-Private Road to Efficiency', Wall Street Journal, 19 February 2013.
- Chris Edwards, 'Opinion: Infrastructure projects to fix the economy? Don’t bank on it', Washington Post, 21 October 2011.
- Chris Edwards, 'Commentary: It’s time to reform unemployment insurance laws', Washington Post, 17 July 2011.
- Chris Edwards, 'Federal Pay: Myth and Realities', Washington post, 13 August 2006.
Affiliations
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 People, Cato Institute website. Last accessed 22 July 2014
- ↑ 'About Us', Democracy Institute website. Last accessed 22 July 2014.
- ↑ ‘Public Sector Unions’, accessed 23 April 2010
