Entitlement programs rely on people having children even as they disincentive their having children—and a payroll tax cut for parents might be a better way to address this than an increased child tax credit, as the former would lower parents’ marginal rates and thus encourage growth.
e21, July 9, 2014The Export-Import Bank’s version of its favorite small-business success story, Miss Jenny’s Pickles, turns out to be a rather tall tale since the company was already broadly successful by the time Ex-Im “discovered” it.
Daily Signal, June 4, 2014The EPA’s latest decrees are set to raise Americans’ energy prices while possibly increasing worldwide greenhouse gas emissions, but most troubling is the agency’s exercise of power that is plainly legislative in nature, despite the Constitution’s having vested all federal legislative power in Congress.
National Review, June 2, 2014A real war on poverty would address and encourage the full spectrum of economic success: work, education, marriage, saving, home-ownership, and entrepreneurship—and in that order.
The Federalist, May 23, 2014The unemployment rate is no longer a reliable barometer for the health of the labor market, as the employed and unemployed are increasingly being joined by a third category: the voluntarily jobless.
American Enterprise Institute, May 14, 2014
Crumbling under the weight of oppressive Dodd-Frank regulations, small community banks are being absorbed by “too big to fail” banks, as Washington favors Wall Street over Main Street.
National Review, May 13, 2014The president’s new edict to increase the minimum wage of federal contractors will likely cost thousands of jobs on military bases, with on-base businesses being unable to bear the sharp increase in operating costs.
Washington Examiner, April 28, 2014The job losses that would result from hiking the minimum wage would disproportionately hit younger Americans.
U.S. News & World Report, May 1, 2014As President Obama sets records for the number of pages added to the Federal Register, Main St. Americans pay a high hidden price.
Washington Examiner, April 29, 2014Under Obamacare’s sky-high implicit marginal tax rates, some people can earn extra money yet actually be worse off financially.
e21, April 16, 2014You’d never know it from the White House, academic conferences, or the press corps, but the decline of marriage may be the main cause of income inequality.
Wall Street Journal, April 20, 2014A public trustee for Social Security and Medicare explains why Obamacare may well be “the greatest act of fiscal irresponsibility ever committed by federal legislators”—and why it’s getting even worse during implementation.
Mercatus Center, April 17, 2014
A president who claims to be guided by objective, scientific findings is peddling a thoroughly debunked statistic—while ignoring that sex discrimination by employers was outlawed during the JFK era.
Washington Examiner, April 11, 2014
As the U.S. imposes the highest corporate tax rates among developed nations—and adds to that the rising cost of Obamacare—some American companies are looking to relocate.
Investor’s Business Daily, April 14, 2014A major reason why men and women don’t make the same incomes is they choose different career fields, but sometimes even when they choose the same fields—say, when both become White House staffers—the disparity remains.
American Enterprise Institute, April 9, 2014