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President’s Budget Increases Taxes by $1 Trillion Over Ten Years

President Obama’s FY 2014 budget includes some tax increases that are easily missed by the casual reader. As Curtis Dubay notes, one of them was identified only in a footnote, and another was identifi More...

To Do: Unravel the EPA Coverup

• Learn about the Environmental Protection Agency’s continuing efforts to keep secret its coordination with outside liberal environmental groups. The Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Christopher Hor More...

The Department of Education Offends Student Rights

With a letter sent to the University of Montana last week, the Department of Education is undermining the rights of students and faculty at every college and university that accepts federal funding, r More...

Medicaid Considerations

Expanding Medicaid on the federal dime may seem like a free lunch for the states, but it’s not that simple for many reasons—in particular that even the federal government cannot forever spend money it More...

More IRS Dots

Here are some other things we learned this week about what’s been going on at the Internal Revenue Service: • While some conservative organizations have been waiting for more than three years for the More...

Farm Bill = Corporate Welfare

Congress is working on another farm bill, which is another way of saying that soon Congress will vote once again to take money from taxpayers and consumers and hand it out to big business. From Daren More...

About the IRS Mess: Power Is the Problem

• There’s a history of the IRS being misused for political purposes, notes Michael Scherer at Time: John F. Kennedy sanctioned an “Ideological Organizations Project” at the IRS that investigated r More...

Journalist Who Writes on Politics Cheers Limits on Non-Profits That Don’t Share His Politics

According to Jeffrey Toobin, the scandal at the Internal Revenue Service isn’t what the agency was asking groups with “Tea Party” and “Patriot” in their names. The scandal is that the IRS isn’t cracki More...

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Just Say No – and Keep Saying No – to Federal Health Care Exchanges and Medicaid Expansion

Source: Public Interest Institute

We, the citizens, must not be lured by the “promise” of “free money” and “someone else” paying for our health care, and instead insist on free-market driven reforms to address the real issues of cost transparency, inter-state portability, malpractice reform, a More...

The Hidden Costs of Tax Compliance

Source: Mercatus Center

Lawmakers have long used the tax code for purposes far beyond simply collecting revenue to fund the federal government. Through the insertion of specialized tax provisions, the tax code is used to achieve policy and political aims as well. But these special pr More...

Men on Strike: Why Men Are Boycotting Marriage, Fatherhood, and the American Dream – and Why It Matters

Source: Encounter Books

American society has become anti-male. Men are sensing the backlash and are consciously and unconsciously going on strike. They are dropping out of college, leaving the workforce, and avoiding marriage and fatherhood at alarming rates. Other books have address More...

America 3.0: Rebooting American Prosperity in the 21st Century—Why America’s Greatest Days Are Yet to Come

Source: Encounter Books

America 2.0 was the transformation of American life by powered machinery. The shift toward corporate labor, and away from individual and family autonomy, led to economic insecurity for families and trades people. Americans demanded protections they had not nee More...

The Market for Medical Care Should Work Like Cosmetic Surgery

Source: National Center for Policy Analysis

Although health care inflation is robust for services paid by third-party insurance, prices are rising only moderately for services patients buy directly. Economic studies and common sense confirm that people are less likely to be prudent, careful shoppers if More...

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