Daily Policy Digest
| Fracking Could Reduce Budget Deficit Increasing natural gas production would shrink our trade deficit and reduce the budget deficit, says Bob McTeer, a distinguished fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| ObamaCare Taxes Will Affect Us All The total tax burden of ObamaCare is now estimated at $1.058 trillion -- a steep increase from the initial $569 billion estimate produced at the time of the passing of the law... |
| Obama's Alternative Sequester Plan Is Horribly Unbalanced Including the fiscal cliff deal and ObamaCare, Obama's alternative plan to sequestration would result in a total of $2.6 trillion in new taxes or other revenues and only $6 billion in true spending cuts... |
| What Surgeons Leave Behind Costs Some Patients Dearly More than 12 times per day, a surgeon will sew up a patient with a sponge or instrument left in a patient's body... |
| Pesticide Unfairly Blamed for Bee Die-Offs There is limited evidence that new insecticides are the cause of the bee "die-offs" around the United States and Europe... |
| Texas Voucher Program Increased Local Development Edgewood Independent School District started a voucher program in 1998 and saw an increase in enrollment in 2002 of 3.5 percent, its first increase in enrollment in many years, says John Merrifield, a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| How to Help the Poor without Slowing the Recovery Finding ways to reduce the costs of regulation will be the most effective way to increase the real incomes of the poor... |
| Debunking Common Public Finance Myths Strong empirical evidence suggests that increased government spending does not stimulate the economy and increased printing press liquidity will slow a recovery... |
| Low Interest Rates Could Cause Havoc Interest rates cannot be kept low forever, and when the Federal Reserve raises interest rates, housing prices are going to drop everywhere... |
| ObamaCare Insurance Plans Will Be Bare Bones Because the ObamaCare plans are likely to pay providers less than private coverage rates, doctors may refuse to accept these plans just as they refuse to accept Medicaid today... |
