As President Joe Biden issued more than 40 executive actions with less than a month in office and Democrats took control of Congress, Republican attorneys general in the states appear poised to be the strongest check on overreach by the federal government.
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We should be championing people's ability to work, to make a living, and to live free from excessive government interference.
The minimum wage debate is littered with examples of second‐order consequences that tend to get ignored.
Governments can’t simply mandate higher wages into existence without imposing significant unintended consequences.
The Senate cannot confirm individuals more committed to partisan politics than to the Constitution and the proper role of agency rule-making in our government.
New York Times writer Kevin Roose recently surveyed “our truth-challenged information ecosystem” and found a proliferation of “hoaxes, lies and collective delusions.” As he put it, that limits the Biden administration’s ability to “unite a country,” because “millions of people have chosen to create their own version of reality.” In response, he called for the … Continue reading No, We Don’t Need a ‘Reality-Czar’: Let Truth and Falsehood Grapple
The PRO Act won’t help independent workers. It will eliminate their jobs or strip them of the flexibility that attracted them to the gig economy in the first place.
Import taxes on washing machines have cost Americans over $800,000 per job created.
As we file our taxes this year, I encourage you to look at the amount of your money the government is claiming and ask yourself these two questions: what would you have done with this money? And does the government actually spend this money better than you can?
The ten immigration bills that passed last Congress cover a wide range of topics, including legalization of certain Dreamers and farm workers, green card reforms for high skilled workers, standards and oversight of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), restrictions on presidential authority, and greater legal protections for people detained by DHS agencies.