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In yet another example of government waste, Washington maintains a $111 million program that sells information that is mostly available for free on the internet…. Read More
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Fifty years ago, on July 30, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation creating the nation’s two largest federal health entitlements, Medicare and Medicaid. Medicare… Read More
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In a blunt rejection of the Senate’s attempt to enact a longer-term fix for the nation’s roads, rails and bridges, the House of Representatives plans… Read More
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In light of recent undercover videos showing Planned Parenthood executives discussing the sale of donated fetal organs, conservative lawmakers are aiming to strip the organization… Read More
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For the last 30 years start-ups have been steadily declining as a share of total businesses in the U.S. This is especially worrisome given that… Read More
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Congress is once again debating a big-government, tax-and-spend bill that fails to fix a problem that’s plagued the federal government for a decade. It’s the… Read More
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There’s always that one moment in a horror film when everyone thinks the villain has been killed, then bam—up he jumps, to the surprise of… Read More
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The Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program has many problems. For starters, it will run out of money next year, which could mean 20-percent benefit… Read More
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio backed away from his controversial plan to restrict the growth of ridesharing companies in the Big Apple. The… Read More
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A report released on Thursday morning by the Government Accountability Office unveiled that the Internal Revenue Service specifically audited organizations in a biased manner. “The… Read More
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Boeing’s new chief executive officer says the company should be able to survive in the short term even without the services of the Export-Import Bank…. Read More
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The Export-Import Bank is dead. Let’s keep it that way. This hoary relic of the Great Depression has been plagued with corruption and fraud. Its… Read More
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The Export-Import Bank’s most vocal supporters were among the biggest spenders on lobbying in the second quarter. Ex-Im supporter Boeing’s lobbying spending skyrocketed, nearly tripling… Read More
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As the Senate prepares to debate legislation addressing the financial future of the Highway Trust Fund, several senators are looking to the bill as a… Read More
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It’s not easy to live on $944 per month, especially if you are disabled. But $944—less than the federal poverty level—is what the average disabled… Read More
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Five years after Congress passed the 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act as a response to the 2008 financial crisis, Americans remain… Read More
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Last week, the House passed an $8-billion bailout of the Highway Trust Fund using gimmicky offsets and tax increases to finance new highway and transit… Read More
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It’s no secret that our corporate tax code is a mess. At 35 percent (39.1 percent when including the average rate of the states), the… Read More
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A Florida family has been indicted by the Justice Department for defrauding the Export-Import Bank and other private lenders, which cost the U.S. government close… Read More
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After nearly 30 years of a virtually unchanged tax system, Americans are calling for a reform to the outdated system. As a result, a group… Read More
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Arthur Laffer sat at dinner with Ford administration officials Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld 40 years ago, sketching his tax policy theory in sharpie on… Read More
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What motivates top scientists to relocate? A recent National Bureau of Economic Research paper by Enrico Moretti and Daniel Wilson reports that the marginal tax… Read More
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In June, Greece defaulted on a €1.73 billion payment to the International Monetary Fund. In a national referendum shortly thereafter, the Greeks strongly rejected European… Read More
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President Reagan had a gift for proving his critics wrong. Almost none of the leading economists of the late 1970s thought that his supply-side, tax-cutting agenda, along… Read More
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Some in Washington appear to be convinced that government spending can fix all the world’s ills, from underemployment to human error. Last month’s fatal Amtrak… Read More
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You can now add “entrepreneur” to entertainer Pat Boone’s repertoire. While most Americans know him as singer, actor and sometimes political activist, they may be… Read More
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In the midst of the horrifying allegations that Planned Parenthood has been selling organs of aborted babies, there’s been at least a bit of good… Read More
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New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote today about the relationship between minimum wage hikes and jobs. “There’s just no evidence that raising the minimum… Read More
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The House Committee on Ways and Means held a hearing last week on “Promoting Opportunity for Disability Insurance Beneficiaries” to discuss, among other measures, a… Read More
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With talk of the Export-Import Bank’s reauthorization continuing on Capitol Hill, Sen. Ted Cruz said today he plans to use “any and all” tools possible… Read More
