A growing economy creates jobs, raises living standards, maintains global competitiveness, and thus engenders positive attitudes and optimism about the future.
While many policymakers seem intent on focusing on either economic stimulus or austerity, IPI believes that the economy can grow consistently and at higher rates than we’ve experienced in the last decade, and we reject the idea that economic growth contains within itself the seeds of its own demise through inflation, the business cycle, and erroneous Phillips Curve assumptions. Therefore, economic growth should be elected officials’ primary policy goal at the federal, state and local levels, and it’s the organizing principle of our policy work at IPI.
Whatever limitations may exist on economic growth, they should not be self-imposed through counterproductive tax policy, overbearing regulations, ill-conceived monetary policy, trade protectionism, or hostility toward skilled and ambitious immigration.
Company-Administered Healthcare Key to Stable, Secure, and Strong Benefits for Workers
Employers need flexibility now more than ever, and that includes wages and benefits.
Would a Democrat Have Managed the Pandemic Better?
Despite all of the Democratic claims of pandemic competence, there is little reason to think that the party could have handled the virus any better.
Fact-shaming Michelle Obama's DNC Speech
In her emotion-driven speech to the virtual Democratic National Convention, Obama made several claims that are at best misleading. And if the media won’t do its job in pointing out these contradictions, others have to.
Whatever Happened to Corporate Inversions?
If the Biden/Harris team wins the election and keeps its promises to raise corporate taxes, U.S. corporations could find themselves right back in the same old tax mess, and looking once again to escape
Rather Than Pour Trillions into Infrastructure Funding, the Feds Should Get Out of the Way of Private Investment
If we really do want America’s critical infrastructure maintained, modernized and continually expanded, instead of borrowing and spending trillions of dollars on a small portion of our overall infrastructure, the most important thing government at all levels could do is just get out of the way.
Blue Cities Give the 'Broken Windows' Economic Growth Theory a Try
Blue city riots will be putting the "broken windows" economic theory to the test, and proving, once again, why it is a fallacy.
Don't Mourn for the Payroll Tax Cut
It’s good news that a payroll tax cut has been dropped from discussion about further Covid-19 economic relief. There are far better ways to provide relief and to attempt economic stimulus.
Coalition Letter Regarding CARES Act Benefit Expiration
While originally intended to provide additional upport for families and businesses complying with government-mandated economic restrictions to address COVID-19, the policy of providing supplemental unemployment insurance has stifled our nation's recovery and is keeping Americans from returning to work.
Relief, Stimulus, and the Right Kind of Stimulus
Any new legislation designed to mitigate the continuing impact of the Covid-19 pandemic should contain both relief and stimulus measures, and full business expensing is an excellent candidate for the stimulus part of the package.
Joe Biden's 'Buy American or Else' Proposal
Democrats have long criticized President Trumps' economic policies, yet Joe Biden is now plagiarizing some of them—and making them worse.
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