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.
No, Mr. President, ObamaCare Will Hurt Blacks and Hispanics
President Obama is taking a new message to the African American and Hispanic populations: ObamaCare means these communities “will finally know the security of affordable care.” If only it were true.
Why Do Liberals Hate Low-Income Workers?
It’s a pattern we’ve seen consistently for decades: Liberals pushing policies that increase unemployment, and ultimately impoverish, low-skilled workers. It’s enough to make one wonder why liberals hate them so much.
Pro-Growth Tax Reform That Works
To maintain and expand manufacturing and manufacturing jobs, and for the overall health of the U.S. economy, the Congress should reduce the corporate tax rate and make permanent either 50 percent or 100 percent first-year expensing of business capital equipment. That should be followed with tax reforms that better enable businesses to export goods and compete directly in foreign markets.
McDonnell appears on VP shortlist
IPI's Merrill Matthews tells Washington Times reporter Ralph Hallow how Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal appeals to voters wanting to repeal ObamaCare, as well as those voters from tea party and evangelical groups.
Companies 'Outsource' Because That's Where The Sales Are
The political war against “off-shoring” — which is what the critics usually mean when they use the term “outsourcing” — is raging this election year. But there is an important reason why many
President Obama's War on the Middle Class
The president wants to blame the “rich” and tax policy for what he sees as a decline of the middle class, but no one has done more to hurt the middle class than the president’s policies.
Preventing Another Tax Disaster
It’s time for the federal government to step up and protect consumers from the threat of unfair, duplicative taxes on their digital purchases.
President Obama's "No-Growth" Tax Cut Plan
Today President Obama said he wants to extend what are known as the Bush tax cuts, which expire at year's end, but only to those whom the president deems worthy.
Unemployment shrinks, but so do paychecks
Floridians are earning less and taking more low-wage jobs than they were a year ago, with pay rates dropping more than almost anywhere in the country. IPI's Merrill Matthews tells Tampa Bay Tribune reporter Brittany Davis that several factors may contribute.
How ObamaCare Increases Income Inequality
Income inequality appears to be growing in the United States. And while President Obama didn’t initiate the trend, his health care legislation will dramatically exacerbate it.
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