Daily Policy Digest
Tax and Spending Issues
| Public-Private Partnerships Could Revolutionize American Roads Ninety-two percent of public-private partnerships studied finished early or on time, while 83 percent were built on budget... |
| Congressional Budget Office Report: Flawed The Congressional Budget Office released a report on the distribution of tax expenditures that some are wrongly using to push for additional tax increases... |
| A Tax on Christmas Spirit: The Christmas Tree Tax A new federal program would include a 15 cent "assessment" on fresh cut Christmas trees, which could eventually rise to 20 cents per tree... |
| United States Can Cut Defense Spending without Threatening National Security As by far the largest portion of discretionary spending, Pentagon expenditures must not escape scrutiny when examining methods for reducing our staggering debt... |
| Denmark's Fat Tax Harms Economy Denmark's fat tax had a very limited impact on the consumption of "unhealthy" foods -- only 7 percent of the population reduced the amount of butter, cream and cheese they bought... |
| College Graduates Face Uncertainty with Social Security On average, individuals between the age of 25 and 59 expect to receive only 60 percent of the Social Security benefits that they have been promised... |
| Eurozone Debt Crisis: The United States Is Next In 2007, total gross public debt in America was already very close to the average for the Eurozone -- 67 percent versus 72 percent... |
| How to Save Social Security In 2023, the federal government will spend $1 on investments (in education, research, infrastructure, etc.) for every $5 it spends on entitlements... |
| Why U.S. Foreign Aid Fails State-provided foreign aid creates the incentive for already dysfunctional governments to remain ineffective... |
| U.S. Corporate Tax Reform Could Revitalize the Economy More than 6 billion hours per year are spent by individuals and businesses preparing taxes, not including time spent on audits or responding to IRS notices... |
