Publications

The White House and media are  predicting when unemployment will return to pre-pandemic lows, but that won't happen if the White House and media get their big-government budget blowout.

If Republicans allow Democrats to pass through budget reconciliation everything that was taken out of the bipartisan infrastructure deal, they will be complicit in the economic harms that will inevitably result.

The federal debt ceiling is back, and it poses yet another roadblock to the Democrats' spending spree.

The problems of a wealth tax far exceed those of other taxes, and we would be wise to avoid it.

Economists often highlight the federal debt's per-person obligation. But not everyone pays federal income taxes and half only pay a small portion, thus the debt burden falls heavily on higher-income households.

Now that everyone is past the various due dates for filing their 2020 income taxes, is there an easier way for Americans to do their taxes? A lot of people apparently think so.

President Biden is schooling some Republicans on the harm caused by taxes hikes—no, seriously. 

The low-hanging fruit for expanding broadband access is clearing away barriers to deployment. With HB 1505, Texas has taken some significant steps to extend broadband access to the approximately 4 percent of Texans who lack it. Other states should follow the example.

The scandal in the ProPublica tax disclosure story is ProPublica’s illegal disclosure of personal tax information, not the wealthy’s legal compliance with the tax code as designed by Congress.

Joe Biden is unlikely to get his $15/hour minimum wage proposal passed, so he's trying to increase wages through the backdoor—and it may be working.