Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| Does Product Liability Make Us Safer? As of 2008 there had been 100 punitive awards allowed by the tort system, defined as financial amounts that reached or exceeded the $100 million threshold... |
| Women vs. the State Unless a wife makes more than her husband (and 72 percent do not), the government will tax the first dollar the wife earns at her husband's highest marginal rate... |
| Why the U.S. Postal Service Is in Greater Financial Trouble than Most Foreign Postal Services The efficacy of foreign posts in staying financially solvent proves that mail delivery can remain profitable despite technological advances... |
| Parking Minimums Create Too Many Parking Spots Regulations enforcing parking minimums produce a surplus of spaces beyond what is efficient... |
| U.S. Postal Service Needs to Privatize in Order to Survive Last fiscal year, the U.S. Postal Service lost $5.1 billion, not including the required $5.5 billion health care prefunding payment... |
| What the United States Can Learn from China's Highway Building Binge In 2004, China had just 21,300 miles of expressway; its national network is now about 53,000 miles and surpassed the Unite States Interstate Highway system in 2011... |
| Social Security by Choice A middle-income worker making $51,200 would get about $1,540 monthly from Social Security, but $3,600 from the Alternate Plan in place in three Texas counties... |
| The Big Lie at the Heart of the Highway Bill The Senate-passed highway bill takes a big step backward on pension policy by adopting a provision that allows employers to shirk some of their pension plan contribution obligations... |
| Truth in Government Lending Is Long Overdue The federal government's share of new loans for the home mortgage and student lending markets now approaches 100 percent... |
| Grading the Nation: How Accountable Is Your State? No state received an aggregate A rating on the State Integrity Investigation, which assesses states' progress in the areas of transparency, accountability and anticorruption mechanisms... |
