Oct 10, 2025
In essence, Democrats think the best way to lower healthcare costs is to direct more funding to insurance companies. This idea could not be more wrong.
Oct 2, 2025
We still need a real solution. It will require courage neither party has shown. Congress should slash entitlements and comb the Federal Program Inventory to eliminate hundreds of low-value subsidies. Washington should roll back Obamacare subsidies.
Sep 18, 2025
The risk is not that Trump has built a sustainable model of state capitalism but that his erratic improvisation is eroding institutional safeguards and trust in markets without delivering durable alternatives.
Sep 11, 2025
If politicians were serious about tax reform and fiscal responsibility, they would start by eliminating any tax expenditures that fail the tests of neutrality or cost-effectiveness.
Aug 28, 2025
Without slower spending growth and real budgetary reforms, no amount of monetary maneuvering can restore stability. The question is not whether Powell, or his successor, will resist Trump's demands. It's whether Congress will allow the Fed to do its job.
Aug 21, 2025
Tariffs are among the worst taxes imaginable; narrow, arbitrary, unstable and regressive. They tax investment more than consumption. They reward lobbying over efficiency. And the revenue they raise is but a fraction of annual government spending.
Aug 19, 2025
The debate over climate change and responses has become so polarized that acknowledging the problem of human-driven warming without accepting a narrative that can sound apocalyptic invites attacks from all sides.
Aug 9, 2025
if the president continues to treat disagreement as disloyalty, especially from vital, independent agencies such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Congressional Budget Office, then Trump's second term could leave a dark mark on the country.