Wealth Tax Fails The Test Around The World
Investor’s Business Daily There’s little doubt that the political flavor of the day is what the left calls “democratic socialism.” And one of this movement’s more recent ideas, from Sen.…
U.S. Postal Service details another quarterly loss of $1.5 billion
Washington D.C. – Frontiers of Freedom President expressed alarm about the U.S. Postal Service’s latest quarterly loss of $1.5 billion to start the 2019 fiscal year. The latest losses underscore…
Here’s The Brief Moral Case Against ‘Democratic Socialism’
By David Weinberger • The Federalist For most people, moral visions trump economic realities, and that is why so-called “democratic socialism” has growing appeal. One’s sense of compassion outweighs the…
Harris’s Call to Eliminate Private Insurance Is ‘Major Slip-Up’ That ‘Will Haunt Her’
Washington Free Beacon Washington Free Beacon editor in chief Matthew Continetti said Wednesday that Sen. Kamala Harris’s (D., Calif.) denunciation of private health insurance could haunt her presidential campaign. At…
Eliminator
National Review Kamala Harris has a big idea for your health-care plan: elimination. The early contenders for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination are working feverishly to out-radical each other. Senator…
The Super Bowl of Corporate Welfare
By John Stossel • Reason Today is the Super Bowl. I look forward to playing poker and watching. It’s easy to do both because in a three-hour-plus NFL game there…
School Vouchers Aren’t Welfare for the Rich
By Christian Barnard • Reason “Do School Vouchers Only Benefit the Wealthy?” asks an article this month in Governing. Like too many headlines, the implication is that school choice is…
The Crippling Cost of 70% Tax Rates
By Edward Conard • Wall Street Journal Newly elected Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent her first few weeks on Capitol Hill calling for a 70% top marginal income-tax rate, and suddenly…
After Trump Gets His Wall Funding, He Should Fire The TSA
Investor’s Business Daily In their constant search for shutdown-related disasters, the media are now fixated on airport screeners. The shutdown is wreaking havoc on airports, they say. Except that it…
McAuliffe: I Don’t Want Dems Making ‘False Promises’ Like Free College
By Cameron Cawthorne • Washington Free Beacon Former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe (Va.) on Monday said he doesn’t want Democrats going out on the campaign trail in 2020 making “false…
Crowley christens LNG-powered El Coqui
American Shipper Crowley Maritime Corp. on Saturday christened its Commitment Class combination container and roll-on/roll-off ship El Coquí, which is among the first of its kind to be powered by…
Congress must head off pension plan crisis
I am not generally a big fan of lame-duck sessions because such a large number of soon-to-be former senators and congressmen are voting on their way out the door. But…
Don’t Import Foreign Price Controls; Break Them
By Phil Kerpen • American Commitment Americans are justifiably angry that we pay the highest prescription drugs prices in the world – anger President Trump tapped into on the campaign…
Checking In On New York’s (Health Care) State Of Mind
By Sally C Pipes • Investor’s Business Daily Every year for the past four years, the liberal State Assembly has approved the New York Health Act, which would establish a…
Ocasio-Cortez backs green policies that would hurt the poor and cripple our economy
By Liz Peek • Fox News Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez promises that going green – removing all fossil fuels from our energy mix – will “establish economic, social and racial justice in…