…is officially on again. This is presumably an indication that the commmunications companies that comprise Cisco’s customers are increasing their infrastructure investment (or at least have stopped reducing it.) AB…

…policies including hard budget constraints, open competition, a neutral tax system, no nontariff barriers and low tariffs, basic protection for FDI, etc. Basic infrastructure: ensure the provision of a minimum…

…agencies and offices, the President has improved the government’s ability to protect our infrastructure, guard our borders and patrol our skies. Of course, if we rely on our memories (and…

…Congress over transportation? It’s pork. Highway and transit money gets spent directly in supporters’ home districts, or states. I’m generally in favor of infrastructure spending, but this is more not-taxing…

…massive structural deficit and it has very little maneuvering room for legal, financial and political reasons. The city has the basic infrastructure of a city twice its population and it…

…basic infrastructure to achieve that. There are still two valid arguments to be made. First, one could argue (as the administration did) that loans are bad, because they will reduce…

Dead Sons I suppose that the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein constitute good news, particularly insofar as Saddam’s sons were actively encouraging attacks on U.S. soldiers and Iraqi infrastructure….

…other forms of national infrastructure? All of these issues interact directly with tax policy, so I suggest a more ambitious catchphrase for the Taxing Blog: “Economic News and Analysis for…

…costly and takes time, and the temptation to cut back on service, reduce price cuts (due to falling technology costs), or spend less on infrastructure will always be there, because…

…can do with their profits. They can save them as cash, they can reinvest them (e.g., infrastructure or acquisitions), or they can give the money to the owners of the…