It's About Time! Restoring Internet Freedom
The FCC has ended the Obama era's net neutrality drive, which means freedom, innovation and opportunity, not government, will once again drive the internet's future.
21 Percent Is Just Fine
So the corporate tax rate in the conference committee bill is 21 percent, not 20 percent. That’s okay, we’ll get over it!
We May All Be Exempt from Obamacare's Mandate--Sooner or Later
Obamacare drafters created an escape hatch, which they never thought they'd see it being used: the law's definition of "affordable" coverage. It allows people to escape the mandate if insurance is too expensive—which it increasingly is.
Corporate Rate Cut Must Take Effect in 2018, not 2019
If the corporate rate cut doesn’t take effect until 2019, businesses may choose to wait a year and defer income and production.
Kids Get Health Coverage While Taxpayers Get the Shaft
The “crowd-out effect” of CHIP would be an important lesson to remember as Congress tackles welfare reform next year.
Budgets First, Patients Last
The Medicare Part B prescription drug program works reasonably well, providing some of the sickest patients with access to the newest and most innovative drugs. Now MedPAC wants to change it, and not for the better.
Taking Net Neutrality A Little Too Seriously
Certain advocacy groups are intentionally spreading misleading information about net neutrality, which could lead to greater damage than just their credibility.
Don't Listen to the Nattering Nabobs of Economic Negativism
The economy used to frequently meet or exceed 4 percent GDP, before big tax, spend and regulate policies became the norm. Tax reform might take us back to the future.
Dems Want to Raise Taxes on the Rich--Except When They Don't
Democrats want to raise taxes on the rich; the Republican tax plan would do that in part by reducing some tax breaks and the Democrats run to the wealthy's defense.
U.S. Carbon Is Down, While World Carbon Is Up
The Bonn climate conference has been criticizing the U.S., which has been reducing carbon emissions, for being uninterested in standing with polluters that claim to be interested.