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, 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Thanks to Congress, the U.S. now doesn’t have a debt limit for the next year. Let two Heritage experts put this into perspective. “President Obama,… Read More
