Topic: Policy

Welfare is a Jealous Polygamist

– September 16, 2024

“Benefits are contingent, and the contingencies — no jobs, no marriage — are detrimental to women long term, and disturbingly similar to the restrictions a polygamist would impose.” ~Michael Munger

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Overhaul for the Uninsured?

– September 10, 2024

“Full reliance on a public budgeting system for providing access to medical care is a certain prescription for millions of disappointed patients.” ~James C. Capretta

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College Football’s Lesson About Political Economy

– September 5, 2024

“College football fandom is a microcosm of the problem of a political economy. It shows that people are willing to pay a price to make their enemies suffer.” ~Art Carden

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DNC Celebrates ‘Freedom,’ But Not Liberty

– September 4, 2024

“As the DNC has just demonstrated so well, a host of rhetorical abuses can find a foothold in offering so many freedoms but so little liberty.” ~Gary M. Galles

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Harris’s Child Tax Credit Plan Punishes Working Families 

– August 30, 2024

“Now is not the time to add even more spending to future taxpayers’ tab. The very Americans whom the Harris plan seeks to help — children — are the ones who will ultimately face the burden of repaying it in the form of higher taxes and dampened economic growth.” ~Kevin Corinth

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Food Profit Margins Shrink, But Harris Blames Them for Rising Grocery Bills 

– August 29, 2024

“Based on her insistence that price gouging is responsible for high grocery prices — when it clearly is not — the Vice President’s proposal would more likely function as a price freeze or command pricing.” ~Joel Griffith

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Free Market Fundamentals and NatCon Inconsistencies

– August 29, 2024

“I’ve never encountered a protectionist of any stripe who explains why the jobs preserved by protectionism have a higher non-material or ethical importance than do the jobs destroyed by protectionism.” ~Donald Boudreaux

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Texas Must Lead with Universal ESAs

– August 26, 2024

“Only 24 percent of eighth graders are proficient in math and 23 percent in reading. Texas’s public education system is failing kids. The time for bold action is now: Texas must embrace universal education savings accounts.” ~Vance Ginn

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Why the ‘Green Economy’ Is Suddenly in Retreat—in EU, US, and on Wall Street

– July 30, 2024

“Green parties and environmentalists have had success largely by getting people to focus on the desired effect of their policies (saving people from climate change) and to ignore the costs of their policies.” ~Jon Miltimore

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Harwood Economic Review Bidenomics

– July 15, 2024

Harwood Economic Review Table of Contents Assessing Bidenomics: The Fatal Conceit of National Commercial Policy Nikolai G. Wenzel Uncle Sam, Addicted to Debt, Faces Future Military Bills Doug Bandow Biden’s ‘Strike Force’ Recalls Nixon’s Economic Plan …

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Anthony Blinken Is Playing a Dangerous Game with Ukraine

– May 24, 2024

“Great powers do not like their neighbors joining military alliances with their rivals. A Ukraine that is a member of NATO is likelier to behave in ways that would provoke Russia.” ~Andrew Byers

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Bootlegger in a Baptist’s Mask

– May 21, 2024

“Bob Lighthizer wants you to join him in what he claims is a moral crusade to save a few American jobs. He fails to mention that ultimately, we will all pay much higher costs to do this.” ~G. Patrick Lynch

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