Mike Lee: What Everybody Ought to Know About the Tax Code in 15-Seconds [VIDEO]
During a recent speech at The Heritage Foundation, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) talked about how the tax code is a prime example of how the… Read More
U.S. Should Borrow Pages from Canada’s Recovery Playbook
The New York Times has announced that the American middle class is no longer the wealthiest in the world. That distinction, the Times claims, now… Read More
Economy News
Follow Your Tax Dollars Across This Map to Unfriendly Nations
What’s worse than using taxpayer money for special interests and cronyism? Maybe sending taxpayer money to nations that aren’t the best friends of the United… Read More
5 Years of Obama: The Real Story
Considering the country’s weak economic growth of just 0.1 percent last quarter, it is worth reflecting on the recovery effort that President Obama and his… Read More
Caution: Senators at Work
Obamacare is wreaking havoc on the economy; entitlement spending is swallowing the federal budget; America’s military readiness is in shambles; and a handful of senators… Read More
Happy May Day, Workers: Unions Will Take Your Dues Now and Give Them to Politicians
Donors like the Koch brothers make the news a lot, but did you know unions are five of the top 10 groups giving political donations… Read More
No One Believes It, But Extreme Poverty Is Declining Globally
In new research polling released this week, Barna Group finds that more than eight in 10 Americans (84 percent) are unaware global poverty has been… Read More
What’s Oprah Got to Do With Opportunity? Mike Lee Knows.
Steve Jobs, Oprah Winfrey, and Michael Jordan didn’t need government to stack the deck so they could succeed on a grand scale. And that’s what… Read More
New GDP Report Means America Still Stuck in Slow Growth Rut
The Bureau of Economic Analysis released its first report for GDP growth in the first quarter of 2014 today. It showed the economy grew at… Read More
The Robin Hood Fallacy: Piketty Would Take from the Rich to Give to the Poor
In public policy, bad ideas—no matter how many times they have been discredited—never completely go away. They seem to pop up over and over. Enter… Read More
Sen. Mike Lee on Fighting for Equal Opportunity
“In this present crisis,” Ronald Reagan famously declared, “government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.” These words, though they inspired… Read More
Regulation Has Contributed to Financial Crises for More Than a Century
The Economist and George Selgin have provided us with two complementary pieces of financial history that provide background on the founding of the Federal Reserve…. Read More
Where Your Money Goes When This Bank Gets Ahold of It
Recently, we talked about how your hard-earned money helps subsidize loans for people in other countries to buy from American companies. Our new infographic has… Read More
Party Up! and End Ex-Im
Yesterday, the world’s leading aerospace company held its first quarter earnings conference call. A Reuter’s headline sums up the call: “Boeing cash register rings again,… Read More
Why Your Boss Probably Isn’t Speaking at This Conference
American companies like Boeing, General Electric, Caterpillar, and John Deere are in the club. What about your company? These are just a few of the… Read More
Fannie-Freddie 2.0: Government Housing Polices Shouldn’t Get a Free Pass
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Shaun Donovan lamented statistics from a Pew report showing Hispanics lost 66 percent of their net worth between… Read More
This Regulation Has Chuck Schumer Talking Like a Tea Partier
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D–N.Y.) has amassed the most liberal voting record in the U.S. Senate, according to National Journal. Yet, when it comes to Washington… Read More
President Obama’s Asia Trip and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
As President Obama travels to Asia, one item sure to be on his agenda is the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a trade agreement currently being negotiated… Read More
Taxpayer-Backed Loans to Foreign Companies Split Hill’s Republicans
With a deadline looming on the future of the taxpayer-funded U.S. Export-Import Bank, congressional Republicans remain split on whether to reauthorize the bank’s charter. The 80-year-old Ex-Im… Read More
Market Pricing, Solving Problems
In medical care, you have to get the diagnosis correct. But if you want to solve the problem, you’ve also got to get the treatment… Read More
WSJ: Obama ‘Regulator Without Peer’
In an editorial appearing today, The Wall Street Journal examined one of the few areas of the economy enjoying an unabated boom: federal regulation. Armed… Read More
Are Sugar Tariffs Raising the Cost of Your Easter Basket?
Easter has arrived, and so has everyone’s favorite bunny rabbit. While kids are excited about their chocolate bunnies, Peeps, and jelly beans, parents continue to… Read More
Economy News
Congressman Calls Export-Import Bank ‘the Face of Cronyism’
What’s wrong with helping people in other countries buy American? Well, a lot if you’re loaning them U.S. taxpayer money to do it. As Congress… Read More
It’s Not the Value of the Chinese Currency: The Proof in Charts
While the U.S. Treasury did not label China as a currency manipulator this week, it did criticize the Chinese authorities for recently intervening in the… Read More
We Give Foreigners Taxpayer Money to Import Stuff from America. What?
Sen. Mike Lee will deliver a speech at The Heritage Foundation on Wednesday, April 30 at 12:30 ET to discuss how “conservative anti-cronyism reform is… Read More
Minimum Wage Hikes Banned in Oklahoma Cities
Republican Governor Mary Fallin signed a bill into law Monday banning minimum wage and employee benefit increases in Oklahoma cities. The bill declares “state preemption… Read More
Response to Club for Growth’s Chocola: Let’s Not Raise Taxes with the Extenders
In today’s Wall Street Journal, the estimable Chris Chocola, former congressman from Indiana and current president of the Club for Growth, writes that Congress should… Read More
Seriously? Are the French Really Overworked?
Does anyone really believe the French are overworked? Despite the fact that laws already exist mandating a 35-hour work week, a French court has found… Read More
2014 Tax Day Chart: Who Pays the Most?
Which taxpayers experience the greatest tax burden—and who pays the most in taxes? As Americans navigated the labyrinthine tax code this Tax Day, many taxpayers… Read More
2014 Tax Day Chart: Who Pays the Most?
Which taxpayers experience the greatest tax burden—and who pays the most in taxes? As Americans navigated the labyrinthine tax code ahead of tax day, many… Read More
