A growing economy creates jobs, raises living standards, maintains global competitiveness, and thus engenders positive attitudes and optimism about the future.
While many policymakers seem intent on focusing on either economic stimulus or austerity, IPI believes that the economy can grow consistently and at higher rates than we’ve experienced in the last decade, and we reject the idea that economic growth contains within itself the seeds of its own demise through inflation, the business cycle, and erroneous Phillips Curve assumptions. Therefore, economic growth should be elected officials’ primary policy goal at the federal, state and local levels, and it’s the organizing principle of our policy work at IPI.
Whatever limitations may exist on economic growth, they should not be self-imposed through counterproductive tax policy, overbearing regulations, ill-conceived monetary policy, trade protectionism, or hostility toward skilled and ambitious immigration.
Solving the H1B Visa Impasse
How about a market mechanism that would determine once and for all not only who is right, but that would determine what the market-clearing price for skilled immigrant labor actually is, informing future immigration policy formation?
If You Do Not Currently Live In A Red State, You Probably Will Soon
Voters around the country are concluding “it’s better to be red than dead”—applying a whole new, and much better, meaning to an old phrase.
All Quiet, Too Quiet, In Allocation Nation
IPI's Merrill Matthews analyzed 2013 Census Bureau data and Affordable Care Act figures and concluded that about 52 percent of American households receive benefits from one or more government programs. These figures cut through Democratic spin and make clear that a majority of American households do not pay anywhere near their pro rata share of government spending. This has important implications for both public policy and politics.
Lego My LEGOs
Environmentalists and other liberal groups are attacking good corporate citizens in an effort to get those companies to embrace their agenda. If the companies cave in to those tactics, that only emboldens the groups to go after even more.
Obama Wants You To Stop Believing Your 'Lying Eyes'
The American people strangely seem to put more faith in their lying eyes on at least three issues.
Elements of a Republican Reform Agenda
Powerpoint presentation given by IPI President Tom Giovanetti to the North Texas Strategy & Victory Conference in Grapevine, Texas on September 27, 2014.
Saving Our Savings
To save our savings, government needs only to get out of the way.
Democrats' Failed Election Strategies Just Keep Coming
Consider some of the themes Democrats bragged would hammer Republicans and help Democrats retain control of the U.S. Senate.
Why Has the Left Become So Outraged Over Low-Wage Jobs?
Low-wage jobs in a free market are not a bad thing, they are necessary to allowing unskilled workers to get a job.
Standard of Living Improves Thanks to Skilled Immigrants
Skilled immigrants are good for the economy and for your pocketbook.
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