IRS To Employers: Pay ObamaCare 'Shared Responsibility' Or Else
As if the fiscal cliff, debt ceiling, higher taxes and a potential recession weren’t enough to scare employers, the Obama administration has just handed them one more headache: an IRS warning that any efforts to avoid the ObamaCare mandate to provide coverage or pay a penalty will not go unpunished.
Galveston-Style Entitlement Reform Is On The Money
Switching to a pre-funded system similar to the Alternate Plan, even if it is only for new workers entering the system, means a day will come when we won't be adding even more unfunded liabilities or robbing from those who have paid in their entire working lives.
Why Boehner Lost the Fiscal Cliff Battle
Boehner never initiated a spending-cut PR campaign, so Republicans are hoping they will be able to get some cuts in the next round of fiscal negotiations. But it won’t happen until they learn how to make excessive government spending the issue.
Don't ban natural-gas exports
Trade restrictions are almost always a bad idea. In the case of natural-gas exports, they would be particularly foolish and economically disastrous.
Smart Energy Policy Would Make Obama Look Like an Economic Genius
If Obama wants more federal revenue, he can have it without raising taxes. Just relax the restrictions on drilling on federal lands and offshore and let natural gas companies export abroad.
Boehner to House GOP: Read My Lips--Break Your Campaign Promises
Seven Reasons States Should Just Say No To Medicaid Expansion
Since ObamaCare's success will be judged solely by how many uninsured people attain coverage, Democrats are desperately hoping the states will accept the Medicaid expansion being foisted on them by the health care law. But they may be be disappointed, writes IPI's Merrill Matthews.
Democrats Stop Blaming Bush and Start Blaming Grover Norquist
In their endless quest to blame someone other than their own policies for the country’s economic ills, liberals are focusing less on former President George W. Bush and more on Grover Norquist, founder and president Americans for Tax Reform and creator of the “Taxpayer Protection Pledge.”
FTC Poised to Help Google's Rivals, Not Consumers
Who, or what, is being protected by antitrust actions? Not consumers. If they don’t like something, they won’t use it. Innovation still holds the key for our greater economic future, so long as government doesn’t get in the way.
Should the GOP Break Their Anti-Tax Pledge?
IPI president Tom Giovanetti tells Politico if the GOP breaks the pledge, they do so at their own peril.
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