Biden: Americans Willing to Pay More Taxes
As people all over the United States send their forms into the IRS, they’re probably seething over President Joe Biden’s repeated assertions that Americans are willing to pay more in…
Instead Of Tax Increases, President Biden Should Cut Spending And Use Public-Private Partnerships
With President Joe Biden looking to pass a major infrastructure bill and other policy priorities, the growing question is how he will pay for them. While some Republican senators have…
Giveaways Disguised As Infrastructure
This past week, President Joe Biden unveiled his new $2 trillion infrastructure plan, scheduled for implementation over the next eight years. He delivered a pep talk about it before a union audience…
Biden’s Infrastructure Plan a Boon for Unions
President Joe Biden’s multitrillion-dollar infrastructure proposal includes a major union handout that would overhaul labor law in the United States. The White House released a fact sheet Wednesday detailing Biden’s…
Things You Need to Know About the Coming Biden Tax Hikes
Joe Biden made a lot of promises during his truncated run for the White House. One of them, that he wouldn’t be Donald Trump, he’s kept. The others, most of…
California Law Harms Veterans and Consumers While Claiming to Protect Them
California has imposed its “fix” on something that wasn’t broken in the first place. As a result, veterans who need Telehealth services are being locked out because of California’s imposition…
Demand would slow down housing market
The low interest rates we’ve experienced over the past few years have made it possible for millions of Americans to buy new homes, refinance properties, and pull out some equity…
Look to the Reagan administration for the answer to the China challenge
Among the best remembered summits of the 20th century are those of Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev. Reagan’s commitment to dialogue with America’s primary adversary and what then-Secretary of State…
PRO? Con
The Biden administration is committed to applying the freshest thinking of the 1930s to contemporary challenges, while congressional Democrats are keen on mandating that all 50 states adopt what is worst…
“The CLEAN Future Act” Guarantees Dramatically More Expensive and Less Reliable Energy
Democrats on the House Energy & Commerce Committee have introduced a relabeled and slightly revised bill from the past and given it the inaccurate and misleading name “the CLEAN Future…
The Postal Service Needs Serious Fiscal Experts to Solve its Major Fiscal Problems
The alarms bells for the Postal Service’s financial position have been brought to the forefront yet again following the recent release of the Government Accountability Office’s new 2021 High Risk…
How to Protect Against China’s Plan for Economic Dominance
The People’s Republic of China (PRC) has consistently revealed itself to be a rogue regime. China operates “re-education camps” where unpopular minorities are systematically imprisoned, tortured, raped, and killed.The communist…
An Unnecessary “Stimulus”
In two Defining Ideas articles in 2009, “Who’s Afraid of Budget Deficits? I Am” and “Furman, Summers, and Taxes,” I criticized Lawrence Summers and Jason Furman, two prominent economists who worked in the Obama administration, for…
Rand Paul Bill Seeks Choice for America’s Workers
In early February congressional Democrats launched an effort to allow unions to implant themselves once again into the lives of workers – whether they’re wanted there or not. The PRO…
Unions Must Stop Prioritizing Politics Over Jobs
At their peak, unions represented more than a third of American workers. Now, after several decades of continuing decline, less than 10% of workers in the private sector are part…