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Pass the Big Beautiful Bill, and Then Do Major Reforms Jun. 11, 2025
As Senate Republicans turn the One Big Beautiful Bill, passed by one vote in the House, into a major... Read More
The Tax Cut Fantasy Needs to End May. 22, 2025
First off, let's drop the Republican claim that not extending Trump's 2017 tax cuts is a tax increas... Read More
Can't Make Government Efficient Apr. 30, 2025
Steve Jobs co-founded Apple when he was 21 years old. Nine years later, at age 30, he was purged an... Read More
The Chainsaw President! Jan. 29, 2025
Finally, a real libertarian is president. That's in Argentina, where last year, Javier Milei surpris... Read More
Give or Take? Dec. 25, 2024
'Tis the season for giving. For me, that mostly means supporting charities. One organization I dona... Read More
Your Tax Dollars Not at Work Dec. 11, 2024
Government excels at NOT getting things done. But politicians promise more things anyway. Kamala Har... Read More
America's Bipartisan Spending Suicide Pact Oct. 11, 2024
The greatest moral hazard in American life is politics. Many of you probably remember 2012 GOP presi... Read More
What If It's Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong? Jun. 20, 2024
What if the government is a myth? What if it doesn't produce what we pay it for? What if it fails to... Read More
You Owe $100,000! Jun. 19, 2024
America is now almost $35 trillion in debt. That means every American owes $100,000. The Biden admin... Read More
Fix Social Security With Ownership, Not More Government May. 15, 2024
The trustees for Social Security have just issued their annual report. And, as we have learned annua... Read More
Tax Time Myths and Truths Apr. 18, 2024
Another Tax Day has come and gone, and most Americans believe they pay too much. One recent poll rev... Read More
America's Fiscal Ethos: From Alexander Hamilton's Day to Our Own Apr. 11, 2024
Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle recently wrote that the best argument made in favor of limit... Read More
Washington's 'Job Creation' Circus Is Hitting the Road Apr. 04, 2024
In the grand circus of politics, where elephants and donkeys alike perform under the big top, there'... Read More
This Is Not the Soviet Union, Mr. Biden Mar. 13, 2024
In 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed. It marked the end of an experiment that lasted almost a centur... Read More
A New Fiscal Commission Must Heed the Lesson of '97 Mar. 07, 2024
The Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee made news recently by announcing that if his p... Read More
The State of Black Progress Feb. 28, 2024
As part of Black History Month 2024, my organization, CURE, Center for Urban Renewal and Education, ... Read More
A World Order, If You Can Keep It Feb. 16, 2024
With the exception of Pearl Harbor, the Western Hemisphere escaped World War II mostly unscathed. It... Read More
Why Keep Worrying About Debt? Speculation Versus Reality Feb. 01, 2024
Over the years, I've offered many explanations about why the trajectory of the national debt is deep... Read More
Social Security: A Broken Socialist Dinosaur Jan. 24, 2024
It seems many still harbor, or want to perpetuate, the illusion that our Social Security system is n... Read More
Our Ticking Ethnic Time Bomb Dec. 06, 2023
The new projections for the U.S. population from the U.S. Census Bureau show dramatic ongoing change... Read More
