Democrats have used the coronavirus to point to why the U.S. needs a government-paid family leave program (such as the FAMILY Act), so that employees can take time off from their jobs without losing much-needed paychecks. Well, in Washington state (which has the most reported coronavirus cases in the U.S. thus far), “It’s Here. It’s Yours.”—government-paid family leave, that … Continue reading Coronavirus Shows Government Paid Leave a Bad Fit for Employees’ Needs
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One of the more elementary observations about economics is that a nation’s prosperity is determined in part by the quantity and quality of labor and capital. These “factors of production” are combined to generate national income. I frequently grouse that punitive tax policies discourage capital. There’s less incentive to invest, after all, if the government imposes extra layers of … Continue reading Poverty in the U.S. Was Plummeting—Until Lyndon Johnson Declared War On It
Sign here to tell Congress to kill the "Green New Deal"! ---- There is nothing environmentally conscientious about prematurely shutting down sound infrastructure that provides clean, low-cost, reliable electricity. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what state renewable energy mandates, federal energy subsidies, and policies like the Green New Deal would do to accommodate politically preferred renewable energy … Continue reading The Hidden Costs of Energy Mandates
Go here to tell Congress to kill the Green New Deal! In what its supporters have claimed is “visionary,” congressional media darling Alexandria Occasio-Cortez (AOC) has released her short-awaited Green New Deal, and she has called for nothing short of the destruction of life as we have known it: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said she has … Continue reading AOC’s Green New Deal Is a U.S. Version of Mao’s Disastrous Great Leap Forward
Click here to tell Congress to kill the Green New Deal! Implementing the Green New Deal resolution would place significant though hard-to-quantify costs on Americans, according to a preliminary analysis by The Heritage Foundation that hints at the total burden. Granted, generating a cost estimate for a plan that is nebulously defined and lacks specificity … Continue reading A Glimpse of What the Green New Deal Would Cost Taxpayers
Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders have led the charge to add many zeros to what some Americans should be given at others’ expense. As a result, they have doubled (or tripled) down on an “old reliable” claim of the left that “the rich” don’t pay their “fair share” of taxes. But that excuse to tax … Continue reading The Myth the Rich Don’t Pay Their “Fair Share”
The Green New Deal will have the same bad outcomes as the old New Deal. It’s been eviscerated by economists, pounded by political analysts, and sunk in the Senate. Yet the Green New Deal is still part of the public discourse and is still lending political traction to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In that context, the … Continue reading The Not so New Green Deal
China’s economic growth has been slowing down, but it was slowing down before President Donald Trump entered the White House, and it will continue to slow down, regardless of whether the U.S.-China trade dispute continues or not. Supporters of the administration’s trade policy often cite the decline in China’s largest stock market, the Shanghai Stock … Continue reading China’s ‘Economic’ Losses Aren’t Because of US Trade Success
A federal judge is expected to rule soon on whether Obamacare’s individual mandate is constitutional without a tax penalty to enforce it, and if it is not, whether the rest of Obamacare’s provisions (including its insurance regulations) are no longer operative. If the judge rules against Obamacare, as many predict, brace yourself for a tsunami … Continue reading A Judge Will Likely Rule Against Obamacare. Here’s What Should Happen Next.
The pro-life movement had a good year in 2015: Fewer American women reported having abortions than at any other time since abortion was legalized in the U.S., according to a new government report. Using the most recent data available, the abortion surveillance report published Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows 638,169 … Continue reading Abortion in US Reaches Lowest Level on Record
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