Op/Ed

There may be a huge divide between what a President Trump wants to do and what House and Senate Republicans are willing to pass—assuming they retain control of both houses.

Some believe eliminating the $100 bill would help the government fight crime, but it would also pave the way for more government intrusions on our privacy.

Of all the controversial elements of proposed immigration reform plans, the H-1B visa impasse should be the easiest to solve. 

What economists call “full employment” just isn’t what it used to be!

This is a city that votes for big-government politicians who promise the world but can’t even deliver safe water. Will they reconsider that pattern? And Flintstones aren’t the only Democrats losing faith in government.

Washington must ensure that spectrum is being freed-up and made available for use on a regular basis in order to keep the critical wireless economy going and growing. But we’re reaching the point where the largest, most inefficient holder of spectrum is in fact the federal government.

Conservatives frequently remind voters that federal debt has risen to more than $18 trillion under President Obama. But that figure overlooks another nearly $3 trillion, which would put total federal debt at about $21 trillion.

The price of their labor is the only thing low- or no-skilled workers have to bargain with. Let the unemployed food stamp recipients work for less than the minimum wage and maybe they will be able to get a job.

Republicans have been pushing a health care reform idea that is unlikely to work—at least the way the health insurance system is currently structured.

In current practice, the owner of the forfeited property does not have to be convicted or even charged with a crime for property to be taken and kept by the government. It is as if the property itself is guilty, rather than its owner. And it only gets worse from there.