Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics · Regulation
No one in Washington is taking the lead in addressing poverty and welfare reform like House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan. Almost alone, he has noted that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty.
Economics · Government · Liberty · Politics
The editorial board of the New York Times had it right 27 years ago when it wrote, “The Right Minimum Wage: $0.00.” There’s a virtual consensus among economists that the minimum wage is an idea whose time has passed. Raising the legal minimum price of labor will result in an increase in unemployment and it will be the least skilled workers, those most in need of work, who will be the first to lose jobs and the last to be hired. That would be the tragic unintended consequences if government forces the new law upon businesses.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
The ‘War on Povety” has been an unmitigated disaster. We never learn, no matter how bad the outcome. We simply double down and believe more welfare will be better.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
The latest federal budget deal amounts to saving two days of spending over the next decade. A sliver of a sliver of savings.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
Earlier this month, President Obama tried to change the subject from Obamacare by pitching some rhetoric on “equality” to rally his Far Left base. Not much thoughtful or helpful is[…]
Economics · Featured · Politics
The term “welfare state” does not begin to encompass the totality of America’s commitment of resources to aid the poor. It is more like a vast empire bigger than the entire budgets of almost every other country in the world.
With Memorial Day still close in the rear-view mirror, let us reflect on the following “wars” our nation has engaged in since the Second World War, which ended nearly 66[…]
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