Publications

Two long-time defenders of Canada's government-run health care system become its latest victims.

Powerpoint presentation given by IPI President Tom Giovanetti to the North Texas Strategy & Victory Conference in Grapevine, Texas on September 27, 2014.

With its just announced anti-inversion tax regulations, the Obama administration has simply dug in deeper on the wrong side of tax history.

The Berlin Wall was not built to keep invaders out but to keep an oppressed people in. Obama's efforts to stop tax inversions is his Berlin Wall to keep keep corporations oppressed by high taxes from escaping to freedom.

IP goods are the largest share of U.S. exports and support a significant portion of the U.S. economy. The U.S. economy is increasingly dependent on the products of innovation, so policies that support innovation and creativity should be priorities for the U.S. government, especially in trade agreements. And nudging our trading partners toward greater respect for intellectual property rights also turns out to be in their best interests.

To save our savings, government needs only to get out of the way.

Low-wage jobs in a free market are not a bad thing, they are necessary to allowing unskilled workers to get a job.

An anti-inversion law that ignores broader tax reform might be legal but certainly is not the right thing to do.

Reports say some conservatives want to pit low-income workers against immigrants by saying the later take U.S. jobs.  A better political strategy is to outline a pro-growth economic agenda that creates jobs for all workers.

Defenders of the Affordable Care Act are boasting that health insurance premiums are not rising as much as some analysts predicted. They will. There are multiple factors, including politics, that drive health insurance premiums up—and down. The ACA increases both inefficiency and utilization, which will increase total health care spending and therefore health insurance premiums—just the opposite of what President Obama promised.