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.
LAMBRO: Obama's sequestration alarmism was dead wrong
President Obama's bogus promises are legendary, but perhaps you've forgotten his "sky is falling" forecast about the sequester. Tom Giovanetti points out the economy added about 1 million new jobs over the period during which the sequester was supposed to cost 750,000 jobs.
The Kind of Tax Reform We Don't Need
The benefits to our economy of reducing the corporate tax rate and moving to a territorial system are indisputable for individuals, small business and large corporations alike.
Sequester Budget Cuts Helped, Not Harmed, The Economy
President Obama's bogus promises are legendary, but perhaps you've forgotten his "sky is falling" forecast about the sequester. Tom Giovanetti points out the economy added about 1 million new jobs over the period during which the sequester was supposed to cost 750,000 jobs.
Minimum Wage Laws Should Be a State Issue
Minimum wage legislation is bad policy and counterproductive. But if politicians are going to impose a minimum wage, it should be done at the state level.
State of the Union Preview
President Obama will deliver his State of the Union Address on January 28, and will likely begin by stressing that the economy continues to improve. But at least one economic dark cloud looms: the debt ceiling.
Jobless rate masks troubles
Merrill Matthews tells reporter Michael Kanell a larger workforce itself adds to the economy's potential.
Not a Great Strategy
Having both the highest national debt and the highest corporate tax rate among our competitors is not a very competitive strategy for the future.
Liberal governors bankrupt their states just like Obama bankrupts the country
Fiscal restraint and energy production are the best way to fiscal health.
A Closer Look at Unemployment Numbers for Minorities and Youth
If employers won’t hire teenagers at $7.25 an hour, the current minimum wage, will they be more or less willing to hire them at $10.00?
Republicans Get Painful News on Brand Problem
“A growing number of conservatives, and especially tea partyers and libertarian-leaning Americans, have decided that their commitment is more to ideology than political party,” said Merrill Matthews of IPI. “And while they will likely vote Republican in most elections, they have become dissatisfied with the Republican label because they don’t think it stands for — or too often strays from — principled conservatism.”
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