PolicyBytes

Hillary Clinton wants to throw $350 billion at higher education to buy votes, er, make college more affordable. But we have pumped billions of dollars in federal money to higher education and it has only gotten more expensive.

You may not own a Tesla, but your taxes are helping pay for one. Now it appears the company is going further, shifting from just benefiting from the government to using the power of government to make it harder for its competitors to compete.

The Americans with Disabilities Act seems to have been a big success at increasing the disabled's access to workplaces, buildings and transportation. So why has the number of Americans receiving disability income grown so dramatically since the ADA passed? 

Hillary Clinton and the Chinese government both want to force investors to hold stocks longer.  The Chinese are using coercion and the secret police; Hillary only wants to use the tax system—at least for now. 

President Obama spoke at the White House Conference on Aging, but what's really getting old is having to "truth-check" all of his claims.

This a tale of a country so immersed in fiscal responsibility and anti-growth economic policies that it has threatened the global financial system—and I am not talking only about Greece.

Greece is just one of a number of countries whose federal debt to GDP is very high. And if Washington were honest about the full extent of U.S. federal debt, the U.S. would likely be at the top of the list.

Congress is looking for ways to fund the Highway Fund once again, but members could do it without raising taxes—by sunsetting the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

At one time toll roads were thought to be a free market solution to traffic congestion; that assumption is being reconsidered by some.

The repatriation issue opens the door for a serious discussion about the pressing need for tax reform in a global economy.