Finnish Failure: Guaranteed Basic Income Punishes Work, Subsidizes Sloth
By Investor’s Business Daily Welfare: The latest “big idea” in the U.S. is the Universal Basic Income — a guaranteed income for all. Progressives of course like the idea, but…
Trump’s Deregulation Binge Shows No Signs Of Ending
Investor’s Business Daily While the media-driven scandals du jour roll on, President Trump quietly goes about reshaping the U.S. economy. Case in point: Last week, Trump directed the EPA to…
Coalition Sounds off to Congress: Get in Tune on the Music Modernization Act
Americans for Tax Reform Today Americans for Tax Reform, along with a number of center-right organizations, sent a letter to members of the House of Representatives in support of the…
When $63 Million Doesn’t Buy Working Toilets
By Mona Charen • National Review When 450 students arrived at Anacostia High School in the District of Columbia’s southeast neighborhood on April 4, they found that few of the…
Trump’s Trade Wins Are a Victory for U.S. Workers
by Stephen Moore • Investor’s Business Daily Is it possible that Donald Trump is winning on trade? Last week, Trump apparently delivered two underappreciated victories as a result of his…
ObamaCare Is The Real Junk Insurance, And It’s Killing People
Investor’s Business Daily We keep hearing about how short-term health plans are “junk insurance.” Really? Compared to ObamaCare’s high-deductible HMOs, or Medicaid’s long and often deadly waits? A new study…
Energy Companies Sued for Being Energy Companies
By Jibran Khan • National Review Numerous jurisdictions are suing energy companies. Not for fraud or white-collar crime, but for the effects of climate change. Bill de Blasio, mayor of…
Uber And Lyft Are Hurting Mass Transit? There’s Nothing Wrong With That
Investor’s Business Daily Chicago recently started taxing users of increasingly popular ride-sharing services so it could spend more on its increasingly unpopular mass transit rail service. This sort of thinking…
3 Reasons Trump Should Have Vetoed The $1.3 Trillion Spending Monstrosity
Investor’s Business Daily Some Republicans were complaining that they didn’t know what was in the massive $1.3 trillion “omnibus” spending bill they voted on this week. But it’s what’s not…
A Chance To Really End Welfare As We Know It
Investor’s Business Daily Thanks to a revived economy spinning out jobs, the number of people on food stamps dropped by 2 million people last year, according to a new report.…
Tax Cuts Work — Just Ask Small Businesses
Brian Ellis • Investor’s Business Daily Employers have until Thursday to implement new tax withholding guidelines, which determine how much they withhold from pay for federal taxes. Fortunately for many…
Feds to repeal 298 tax regulations
By Elizabeth Harrington • Washington Free Beacon The Treasury Department plans to eliminate nearly 300 outdated tax regulations, getting tax rules off the books that in some cases have not…
Apple Repatriates Overseas Holdings Thanks to Trump Tax Reform
By Tripp Mickle • Wall Street Journal Apple Inc. AAPL 1.65% said it would pay a one-time tax of $38 billion on its overseas cash holdings and ramp up spending…
The Postal Service Needs To Overhaul Its Leadership And Get Its Act Together
With tax reform now in the rear view mirror on President Donald Trump’s list of priorities, it is clear now that he has another mishandled federal issue in his sights…
Get Ready for Economic Liftoff
The supposedly smart people said Donald Trump would destroy the U.S. economy if he were elected president. They were wrong. On Thursday, the Dow broke 25,000 for the first time…