3 Ways to Make April 15 Less Painful
Yesterday you told us what you think Washington should be doing—and more than a few of you said dealing with our horrendous taxes. Representative Dave… Read More
Heritage’s Macroeconomic Estimate of Camp’s Tax Reform Proposal
The Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis recently completed a preliminary macroeconomic analysis of House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dave Camp’s (R–MI) Tax Reform… Read More
Paul Krugman: Selective Data Usage
Paul Krugman, in the words of a former New York Times public editor, “has the disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers.” Most… Read More
Should Unions Have to Ask Workers for Forgiveness or Permission?
Should workers have to continuously “opt out” of paying for union political expenses they oppose? Washington State Senator Jim Honeyford (R) has raised this question… Read More
Tax Reform at Last?
Today, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R) of Michigan jumpstarts the tax reform debate. It’s about time. The tax code stables in… Read More
CBO Again Repeats Faulty Methodology to Estimate Impact of Stimulus
There they go again. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) just released yet another report on the beneficial impacts on the economy of President Obama’s 2009… Read More
Obama’s Austerity Myth
The Obama administration put out the word this weekend that the president’s new budget will end several years of “austerity” in Washington. Come again? Austerity?… Read More
10 in Union ‘Goon Squads’ Indicted for Violence, Arson in Philadelphia
Ten members of a Philadelphia ironworkers union are charged with conspiring to commit extortion, arson, destruction of property, and assault to force construction contractors to… Read More
Tony Stark, Come Home: Hollywood Seeks Tax Breaks to Lure More Movies
Hollywood’s new role may be as the world capital for film entertainment in name only, unless California can compete with other states in tax incentives, industry… Read More
By How Much Did Congress Increase the Debt Ceiling? Hint: It’s a Trick Question
Just a few weeks before President Obama releases his budget proposal to boost deficit spending for the remainder of his term, Congress voted to “raise… Read More
Steve Moore Demolishes the Argument for a Higher Minimum Wage in Under Two Minutes (VIDEO)
The real minimum wage will be “zero” for individuals who lose their jobs as a result of the federal minimum wage increase, according to The… Read More
What the Washington Post Got Wrong in Its Debt Limit ‘Fact Check’
The Washington Post’s Glenn Kessler focused his latest Fact Checker column on The Heritage Foundation analogy that suspending the debt limit is like giving a… Read More
Economy News
The White House Doesn’t Like These Particular Facts
A funny thing is happening to President Obama in his pursuit of redistributive economic policies: Facts are getting in the way. The facts in this… Read More
Obama’s Heavy-Duty Audacity
President Obama grabbed headlines this week for (supposedly) bypassing Congress to advance his global warming agenda. As part of what aides characterize as a “muscular… Read More
The Problem with Giving America a Raise
In his State of the Union Address, President Obama told Congress to “give America a raise.” But as the job forecasts are revealing, he might… Read More
Mamma Mia! Sweden’s Remarkable Rise in Economic Freedom
A member of celebrated Swedish pop group ABBA recently made this confession about the group’s signature bell bottoms and platform heels: “[W]e looked like nuts… Read More
A Response to Robert VerBruggen on the Proper Tax Treatment of Interest
Over at Real Clear Policy, Robert VerBruggen asks some thoughtful questions about my recent paper “The Proper Tax Treatment of Interest.” Below are my brief… Read More
She Dreamed Obamacare Was Harmless
Obamacare is working, and it’s not costing any jobs. Shhh…keep quiet, or you’ll wake Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius from her dream. “There… Read More
Economy News
A Look Back: 7 Instances of Wasteful Spending in the Stimulus Package
Five years ago this week, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act—the stimulus package—into law. Here’s a quick reminder of how some of… Read More
Why It’s the Government’s Fault There Isn’t Enough Salt to Make Roads Safe in New Jersey
Winter storms recently dumped nearly a foot of snow in parts of New Jersey. As of February 13, New Jersey state police had responded to… Read More
Minimum Wage Hike Would Eliminate 500,000 Jobs
Surprise, surprise: An analysis released today found that a proposed minimum wage hike would eliminate hundreds of thousands of jobs. Today the Congressional Budget Office… Read More
White House Still Defending Failed Stimulus Plan Five Years Later
Five years later, it is obvious that President Obama’s stimulus was a failure. This week marks the fifth anniversary of Obama’s 2009 stimulus plan, a… Read More
Obama Shouldn’t Decide Your Truck’s Gas Mileage
It shouldn’t be President Obama calling the shots on the range for gas mileage for trucks. The President has instructed his Administration to foist a… Read More
Did Climate Change Cause the California Drought? Or Big Government?
While scientists continue to debate global warming, it’s undeniable that the federal government has had an active hand in exacerbating California’s drought. President Obama flew… Read More
How to Free the Housing Market from Government—and Lower Your Mortgage Payments
President Obama said something truly great in his State of the Union Address this year. He told Congress: [S]ince the most important investment many families… Read More
Workers Choose Not to Turn Chattanooga Into Detroit
Three weeks ago I traveled to Chattanooga, Tenn., on behalf of the Beacon Institute to educate workers and community leaders on the perils of unionizing… Read More
Forget Obamacare. Get Worried About ObamaLoans.
The U.S. government is simultaneously trying to shut down a legitimate industry and replace it with a taxpayer backed version. Pretty much everyone has heard… Read More
Comcast/Time-Warner: Storm Forecasts Just Hot Air
While much of official Washington was kept from the office on Thursday by a snowstorm, a storm of a different kind was developing in the… Read More
Thank Free Trade for Your Valentine’s Day Flowers
On May 14, 2012, a plane loaded with freshly cut flowers departed Bogota, Colombia, headed for Miami. By the time it landed in Florida, the… Read More
Till Debt Do We Part
The GOP’s capitulation on the debt ceiling bill this week calls to mind the famous line from Macbeth about misdeeds: “If it were done when… Read More
