A rare and encouraging rollback of government handouts
The "Big Beautiful Bill" did a lot of things, not all of them good.
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Big Beautiful Bill delivers win for HSAs
In a Congress addicted to bad ideas and bloated spending it's rare to find a tax policy with broad, bipartisan support that also happens to be good policy. Health savings...
One Big, Beautiful disaster
Here we go again. This week, the Senate unveiled, honed and passed its version of the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," and it's a fiscal monstrosity. What was already an...
Social Security and Medicare’s trustees have spoken. Will pols listen before the cuts hit?
Both programs are barreling straight toward insolvency.
Is ‘common sense’ a legal standard? If so, anything goes
If you think federal regulators care about data-driven, evidence-based policymaking, a case currently before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit will leave you scratching your head.
Extend the tax cuts? Sure, but don’t expect ‘Big, Beautiful’ growth
Congress needs to do the work and revise the bill so that it does produce growth and offsets the debt accumulation.
The ‘China Shock’ myth driving bad populist trade policies is unraveling
Instead of doubling down on tariffs and isolation, we need to empower U.S. workers to adapt to economic changes, whether caused by trade or economic downturn.
Moody’s reprimands Uncle Sam for squandering Hamilton’s vision
Legislators can't say they weren't warned.
Trump’s tax push puts ‘free-market’ label to rest
If you voted for Donald Trump last November because you believed he'd increase economic freedom, it's safe to say you were fooled.
Why tariffs won’t fix America’s work-attachment problem
We must remove the obstacles and perverse incentives that make living with economic stagnation too rational a choice for too many people.