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California’s Job-Killing Tax on Talent
Teaser: Next session the California state legislature plans to raise corporate taxes on companies with high CEO pay. The proposed bill would increase taxes on companies that pay executives more than...
View ArticleThe Benefits of Natural Gas Exports
Honorable Members of Congress, you could immediately assist Ukraine and other countries by amending the Natural Gas Act to ensure that the Energy Department approves LNG export applications within a...
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How to Overcome the Worst GDP Decline in Five Years
Teaser: America can take five common-sense steps to increase economic growth.U.S. GDP fell by 2.9 percent in the first quarter of 2014, according to the Commerce Department's third and final estimate....
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Cronyism at the Ex-Im Bank
Teaser: The new House majority leader, Kevin McCarthy, has announced his opposition to renewing the charter of the Export-Import Bank. Kudos to him. The Ex-Im Bank is ripe for elimination. The bank has...
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Employer Health Plan Sponsors: Running Harder, to Stay in Place
Teaser: In the four years since passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we have heard a wide range of speculative predictions about how private employers sponsoring health coverage would respond....
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Young People Punished by Harsh Internship Law
This article originally appeared in MarketWatch.With Labor Department rules preventing companies from offering unpaid internships, many employers, including publisher Condé Nast, are ending the...
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I Was Right About the ACA
Teaser: Four years into the ACA, it is remarkable how well our predictions have been borne out. Below I will resurrect but five of my own specific predictions about the ACA, contrast them with what...
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US Laws Keep Immigrants Off Welfare
Teaser: Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman famously quipped, “You can't have free immigration and a welfare state.” Despite the children pouring across the southern border, America’s welfare...
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Let's Not Unionize Home Healthcare Workers
Teaser: Home health care workers make lower than average wages, and should not be assigned to a union and have their wages reduced. The Supreme Court’s decision removes the ability of unions to prey on...
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Startling News for Investors, Yellen and Congress
Teaser: Fiscal deficits and loose monetary policy have led to a lopsided recovery. This is the conclusion of the Bank for International Settlements' 84th annual report. U.S. policymakers should heed...
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Cut Tax Rates, and Watch the Economy Grow
Teaser: As Congress debates what to do with more than 50 tax preferences that expired on January 1, it is important not to lose sight of tax rates in relation to tax preferences. The U.S. has the...
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The White House’s Invisible Pay Gap
Teaser: One of the most powerful institutions in the world is headed by a man. His chief of staff is a man. And although the institution has both male and female employees, it was revealed today in a...
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Three Ways Obamacare Is Impairing Economic Growth
Teaser: In terms of economics, the Supreme Court’s ruling in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby gives opponents of Obamacare little to celebrate. The case is narrow in its application. It is specifically...
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The American Dream Is Not Dead
Teaser: Intergenerational mobility has emerged in recent years as a bipartisan policy priority. To the extent that upward mobility rates are low the health of the American Dream is called into...
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A One-Sided White House Report on Medicaid Expansion
Teaser: The new White House report on Medicaid expansion argues that states that decline to expand Medicaid through the Affordable Care Act are sacrificing important benefits. The report is essentially...
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Dear New York Times, McDonald’s Is Not Shake Shack
Teaser: Ninety-seven percent of American workers are paid above minimum wage, because otherwise they would quit for other jobs. But it does not follow that the federal government should mandate a...
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Automatic Obamacare Enrollment is Anti-Patient
Teaser: America is not yet ready for auto enrollment in Obamacare and automatic reenrollment means higher premiums for those on the exchanges. This proposed regulation should raise concerns. This...
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Raising the Minimum Wage Won't Solve Poverty
Teaser: Advocates of raising the minimum wage claim it will lift people out of poverty. But the overlap between those in poverty and those earning the minimum wage is actually quite small.It would be...
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GOP Should Stop Avoiding Payroll Tax Reform
Teaser: The biggest source of low-income families' tax burden isn't the income tax--it's the payroll tax. And the GOP can't ignore it forever.A consensus is emerging that reforming the federal tax code...
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Employer Health Plan Sponsors: Running Harder, to Stay in Place
Teaser: In the four years since passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), we have heard a wide range of speculative predictions about how private employers sponsoring health coverage would respond....
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