Steve Forbes writes in the latest Forbes magazine that Republican elected officials need to focus their attention on additional tax relief. Instead of vaguely mumbling about perhaps another round of…
Last month, the IRS sent a letter of findings to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction (DPI), outlining possible mistakes in the way that state education officials classified certain types…
Obamacare’s idea of nudging businesses and their workers to be more cost-conscious on health care spending is to levy a hefty tax on loaded health plans. ‘Repeal and Replace’ proposals…
View in your browser. Since the World War II era, workers have benefited from a rather large implicit tax subsidy on health coverage provided by their employers. Every dollar an…
Charles Blahous asks Weekly Standard readers to consider the consequences of major delays for some of the Affordable Care Act’s most important provisions. Imagine that it is 1937 and time…
Walter Williams is the latest well-informed pundit to chime in with a defense of Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s comments about Social Security and Ponzi schemes: Belatedly, the Social Security Administration…
Purportedly, the nation is in economic recovery, and has been for a year or so. Regardless, the aftermath, shock waves, etc. from the Bush Administration leave unemployment and foreclosure rates…
The Civitas Institute has helped with the pre-Christmas news doldrums. In one article, they criticize Governor Bev Perdue’s attempts at downsizing government. Although she was lauded for requiring departments to…
The town of Kitty Hawk is taking steps to save the tax-payers some money, this from the Outer Banks Sentinel: Mayor Pro Tem Gary Perry said, “if we cut (the…
Niall Ferguson (author of Colossus: The Rise and Fall of the American Empire) and Laurence Kotlikoff (co-author of The Coming Generational Storm) propose a ?new New Deal? in the New…