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Cochrane on ObamaCare’s Contraceptive-Coverage Mandate

Michael F. Cannon — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:23:26 +0000

By Michael F. Cannon

My Cato colleague John Cochrane – who is way smarter than I am — has a generally excellent op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal on ObamaCare’s contraception mandate: Salting mandated health insurance with birth control is exactly the same as a tax—on employers, on Catholics, on gay men and women, on couples trying to have children and [...]

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Waiving Goodbye to the Constitution

Neal McCluskey — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:47:58 +0000

By Neal McCluskey

Today the Obama administration will announce, according to early press reports, that ten states (of eleven that applied) will be receiving waivers from key provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act. That’s right, the 2002 education law passed by Congress and signed by President Bush that absurdly insisted that all children will be proficient in mathematics and reading [...]

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Senator Reid on the Budget: Not Interested

Patrick Louis Knudsen — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:30:32 +0000

It is bad enough that, after more than 1,000 days since passing a budget resolution, the Senate has decided to forgo this fundamental obligation once again this year. Even worse is the absurd excuse by Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D–NV) that a budget resolution is unnecessary because Congress already has one—in the form of the Budget Control Act (BCA). Reid and other Senate leaders contend that the spending cap in the BCA, the product of last year’s debt ceiling debate, is a sufficient proxy for a budget resolution. This … More

One Year Later, Another Look at Obamanomics vs. Reaganomics

Daniel J. Mitchell — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:46:42 +0000

On this day last year, I posted two charts that I developed using the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank’s interactive website. Those two charts showed that the current recovery was very weak compared to the boom of the early 1980s. But perhaps that was an unfair comparison. Maybe the Reagan recovery started strong and then hit [...]

One Year Later, Another Look at Obamanomics vs. Reaganomics is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog

Obamacare Ends Medicare (As We Know It)

Alyene Senger — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:15:56 +0000

As budget season approaches, premium support is gaining traction as the only viable option to save Medicare. In a recent Politico article, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D–MD) is quoted as saying liberals will use Obamacare’s new provisions to combat a conservative budget that reforms Medicare using premium support. Hoyer told reporters, “Yes, we need to make Medicare viable. We believe that the health care bill—and very frankly CBO (Congressional Budget Office) believes the health care bill will do something that Medicare very badly needs, and that is to constrain … More

New Academic Study Confirms Previous IMF Analysis, Shows that Lower Tax Rates Are the Best Way to Reduce Tax Evasion

Daniel J. Mitchell — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:46:21 +0000

By Daniel J. Mitchell

Leftists want higher tax rates and they want greater tax compliance. But they have a hard time understanding that those goals are inconsistent. Simply stated, people respond to incentives. When tax ...

New Academic Study Confirms Previous IMF Analysis, Shows that Lower Tax Rates Are the Best Way to Reduce Tax Evasion is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog

Obama Is Avoiding the Tough College Course

Neal McCluskey — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:49:16 +0000

By Neal McCluskey

College prices truly are ridiculous. But someone needs to tell President Obama that the root problem isn’t the colleges, which he is expected to announce today will be the targets of ...

Obama Is Avoiding the Tough College Course is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog

Online Chat about Obama’s Economic Policies

Todd Thurman — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 22:30:08 +0000

President Obama unveiled a long list of economic policies during the State of the Union address that he wanted Congress to focus on this year. Click here to join us right now for our “Lunch with Heritage” chat. We are joined by Bill Beach, ...

Trade, Tires, and Jobs

Bryan Riley — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:45:40 +0000

“Over a thousand Americans are working today because we stopped a surge in Chinese tires,” asserted President Obama in his State of the Union Address. President Obama referred to steep tariffs that his Administration imposed on tires imported from China. Not everyone sees it that way. According to the Tire Industry Association (TIA): TIA believes this was a politically motivated decision that will end up costing more jobs than it saves. These tariffs will not bring back the jobs that the union claims have been lost; it will not create … More

Cato Institute Scholars on the State of the Union 2012

Caleb O. Brown — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:19:48 +0000

By Caleb O. Brown

Cato Institute scholars Malou Innocent, Chris Edwards, Neal McCluskey, Ilya Shapiro, Jerry Taylor, Dan Mitchell and Dan Ikenson respond to President Obama’s 2012 State of the Union Address. Video produced by Caleb O. Brown, Austin Bragg and Lester Romero. Cato Institute Scholars on the State of the Union 2012 is a post from Cato @ [...]

Cato Institute Scholars on the State of the Union 2012 is a post from Cato @ Liberty - Cato Institute Blog