Publications

Minimum wage legislation is bad policy and counterproductive. But if politicians are going to impose a minimum wage, it should be done at the state level.

Could adding a new fair use exception lead to a better music industry?

Having both the highest national debt and the highest corporate tax rate among our competitors is not a very competitive strategy for the future.

If employers won’t hire teenagers at $7.25 an hour, the current minimum wage, will they be more or less willing to hire them at $10.00?

Toll-free data will be as good for consumers as was toll-free voice.

Taxable events are on the move but archaic tax codes remain moribund.

Democrats are pushing Republicans to pass yet another extension of the unemployment benefits, but the long-term unemployed are a result of Obama’s bad economic policies and extending benefits only provides him with political cover from those bad policies.

We live in a time of unparalleled advances in technology, but technology is merely a tool that can be used for good or evil, to empower the state or empower the people. We must decide as a society what we want—expanded individual opportunity or expansive government control.

Among the disappointing lessons of the budget deal: More spending makes politicians on both sides of the aisle a little more merry.

After generally supporting Obamacare’s mandate to have government-qualified coverage, some insurers see a market for plans that don’t qualify for the mandate.