Publications

When will the Census Bureau enter the 21st Century—or even the 20th? It’s time to take the constitutionally mandated census once again.

Last week Senator Reid scrapped a “bipartisan jobs bill,” estimated to cost about $85 billion over 10 years, for a dramatically scaled-down $15 billion bill.

The well-kept secret of health policy over the past year is that the uninsured can be covered at relatively modest additional net cost, without the government takeover of health care, rationing, or any new health care bureaucracy, all of which were essential to Obamacare.

Once children begin school the family schedule changes in many ways.

By any objective measure, the rollout of broadband services to the country is going phenomenally well, and is largely being done with private capital and without involving taxpayer dollars.

Our thanks for FedEx Chairman Fred Smith for dredging up a 2001 IPI study and resurrecting its recommendations in a Wall Street Journal op/ed this past Saturday.

In the federal government, regulators are not directly accountable to the electorate.

President Obama introduced his budget this week amid lots of calls for Republicans to support the president’s laundry list of new and expanded spending programs, along with a minimal spending freeze and some tax cuts.

While in Washington ideologues argue over whether there is adequate competition in the communications industry and dream up fanciful schemes to redesign the communications industry and dangerous plans to regulate the Internet, the states are moving ahead with modernizing their communications regulations to reflect the competitive reality that we see around us every day.

Would the REAL Obama agenda please stand up! On Monday morning the White House released a plan for: · Doubling the Child and Dependant Care Tax Credit for families making under $85,000; · Limiting student federal loan payments; · Expanding tax credits to match retirement savings; and · Expanding assistance to families caring for elderly relatives.