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…
Poll: People Care More About High Health Costs Than About Pre-Existing Conditions
By Christopher Jacobs • The Federalist Now they tell us! A Gallup poll, conducted last month to coincide with the midterm elections and released on Tuesday, demonstrated what I had…
No, The Deficit Isn’t ‘Soaring,’ And Yes, Tax Revenues Are At Record Highs
Investor’s Business Daily In the first two months of the new fiscal year, tax revenues are up. But so is the deficit. Why? Because spending continues to outpace revenues. So…
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‘Let Them Come to Venezuela’ and See the Wreck of Socialism For Themselves
“There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin!” That was June 1963 in West Berlin where President John F. Kennedy…
The Risks of Medicare for All
by Doug Badger • National Review Critics of American health care often ask why ours is the only highly developed country without a taxpayer-funded universal health-care system. It is a…
House Democrats Change Rules to Make It Easier to Raise Taxes
by Haris Alic • Washington Free Beacon Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) has yet to take the speaker’s gavel of the U.S. House of Representatives, but Democrats are already laboring…
New Administration Report Takes USPS ‘Business Model’ to Task
In Treasury Secretary Mnunchin’s report released today, the U.S. Postal Service’s future as a sustainable organization was appropriately and undeniably called into question. The Trump Administration has worked diligently this…
Renewed Talks with China Can Accelerate Positive International Shipping Reforms
Later this week, President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to convene for discussions on a variety of contentious economic matters. While previous talks on tariffs, intellectual property…