Daily Policy Digest
| Red Tape Record Breakers Pages in the Code of Federal Regulations hit an all-time high of 174,545 in 2012, an increase of more than 21 percent during the last decade... |
| U.S. Spending Crisis: Will It Be Remedied? Each dollar of stimulus increases total spending in the economy by less than one dollar, which means that the economic benefit associated with the stimulus is less than the stimulus itself... |
| Estonia: A Lesson for the U.S. Government In 2011, Estonia increased economic growth by 7.6 percent, which is an increase of 5.3 percent in economic growth in one year... |
| Young Men Will Pay More under ObamaCare Men ages 25 to 36 could see health insurance rate increases greater than 50 percent under ObamaCare... |
| Free Market Has Real Solutions to Obesity Crisis There are major policy obstacles to allowing market forces to stimulate the production of fresh fruits and vegetables and to make them cheaper and more available to more people... |
| Homeownership and the American Dream Seventy-two percent of non-homeowners aspire to homeownership; 45 percent of renters say they rent because they can't afford to buy... |
| California: Can Oil Revive Its Economy? The recent discovery of up to 15 billion barrels of oil in the Monterey Shale formation could generate up to $4.5 billion in tax revenue for California by 2015... |
| Federal Small Business Loans Harm Taxpayer Small Business Administration loans, while supposed to help small businesses, have instead become a form of corporate welfare for some of America's largest banks... |
| ObamaCare Mandates Dramatically Expand the Internal Revenue Service's Power It turns out that many people are exempt from the health insurance mandate, and so the IRS has to know a lot about you in order to decide whether you are in compliance with it... |
| Housing Recovery Still Has Room to Run Demand for housing has recovered, thanks to better job prospects and ultra-cheap mortgage rates... |
