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Crime and Punishment in America
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Morgan O. Reynolds is an NCPA Senior Fellow, Director of the NCPA Criminal Justice Center and a professor of economics at Texas A&M University. He was 1993-94 Visiting Scholar with the Joint Economic Committee, U.S. Congress. He has published many articles in academic journals; edited W. H. Hutt: An Economist for the Long Run (1986); and written Power and Privilege: Labor Unions in America (1984), Crime by Choice (1985), Making America Poorer: The Cost of Labor Law (1987) and Public Expenditures, Taxes, and the U.S. Distribution of Income (1977). His newest book, Economics of Labor, was published this year by South-Western. Dr. Reynolds has been a consultant for the National League of Cities, the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board and many private organizations. He also serves on the boards of the Journal of Labor Research and the Review of Austrian Economics and is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society and an adjunct scholar of the Cato Institute.
The National Center for Policy Analysis is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institute, funded exclusively by private contributions. The NCPA originated the concept of the Medical IRA (which has bipartisan support in Congress) and merit pay for school districts (adopted in South Carolina and Texas). Many credit NCPA studies of the Medicare surtax as the main factor leading to the 1989 repeal of the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act.
NCPA forecasts show that repeal of the Social Security earnings test would cause no loss of federal revenue, that a capital gains tax cut would increase federal revenue and that the federal government gets virtually all the money back from the current child care tax credit. Its forecasts are an alternative to the forecasts of the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation and are frequently used by Republicans and Democrats in Congress. The NCPA also has produced a first-of-its-kind, pro-free enterprise health care task force report, written by 40 representatives of think tanks and research institutes, and a first-of-its-kind, pro-free enterprise environmental task force report, written by 76 representatives of think tanks and research institutes.
The NCPA is the source of numerous discoveries that have been reported in the national news. According to NCPA reports:
- Blacks and other minorities are severely disadvantaged under Social Security, Medicare and other age-based entitlement programs;
- Special taxes on the elderly have destroyed the value of tax-deferred savings (IRAs, employee pensions, etc.) for a large portion of young workers; and
- Man-made food additives, pesticides and airborne pollutants are much less of a health risk than carcinogens that exist naturally in our environment.
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