Policy
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What Is the Jones Act—and Can It Be Fixed?
The Jones Act has been a staple of the American political landscape for over one hundred years. It has also created many unintended consequences.
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The Economic Tradeoffs of Property Tax Reform
How do property taxes work in the United States, and what are their economic consequences?
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Do the Rich Pay Their Fair Share of Taxes?
Research Fellow Thomas Savidge digs into tax data to answer a frequently echoed question.
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Trump’s Subsidized IVF Spells Disaster
“Trump’s plan is a disaster from the perspective of cost, incentives, and value neutrality.” ~Vanessa Brown Calder
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How to Make Social Security Reform a Winning Campaign Issue
“Price indexing will remove about 80 percent of the unfunded liability gap over the next 75 years, if instituted in 2029.” ~David Rose
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Resolutions for the Fiscal New Year
“Many lawmakers in DC make resolutions to be more fiscally responsible, but much like our New Year’s resolutions, they rarely follow through.” ~Thomas Savidge
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‘You Can Trust Me’: Catfishers, Nigerian Princes, and Political Hucksters
“Individuals who we don’t know and who don’t know us seek to gain our trust so that they can then gain open-ended access to our wealth.” ~Don Boudreaux
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Why the ‘New Yorker’ Got Fooled by Taxpayer-Funded Sex Changes for Prisoners
“Dollars allocated for gender reassignment surgeries cannot be spent on food stamps, border security, or anything else.” ~Jon Miltimore
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The Greed Theory of Inflation and the Cowardice of Economists
“By the Harris Greed Theory, corporations became increasingly greedy from June 2020 to June of 2022, and then became less greedy over time.” ~David Rose
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Biden-Harris Magical Labor Market Claims
“Damage to real wages began with Biden’s ‘Day One’ energy and regulatory Executive Orders, which reduced productivity and real GDP.” ~John Tatom
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In Policy, Vagueness is No Virtue
“Vagueness virtually ensures bad policies, if advancing Americans’ well-being —rather than party power — is the criterion.” ~Vincent Geloso
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Welfare is a Jealous Polygamist
“Benefits are contingent, and the contingencies — no jobs, no marriage — are detrimental to women long term, and disturbingly similar to the restrictions a polygamist would impose.” ~Michael Munger
