Daily Policy Digest
| Unnecessary Regulations that Increase Prescription Drug Costs Sixty percent of all Americans take a prescription drug in any given year, and nearly all seniors do, says Devon Herrick, a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Economic Effects of the Sequester A 1 percent spending cut has no significant effect on growth, whereas a 1 percent tax increase reduces gross domestic product by 1.3 percent after two years... |
| Whether States Should Expand Medicaid Is a Tough Decision Medicaid already accounted for nearly 24 percent of state budget expenditures in 2011 and costs are projected to rise by more than 150 percent over the next decade... |
| America's Early Industrialists Earned Their Wealth America's early industrialists, like shipping and railroad tycoon Cornelius Vanderbilt and oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, got their money the old-fashioned way: they earned it... |
| Larger Spending Cuts Would Help the Economy The $825 billion stimulus of 2009 cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per job but yielded no short-term economic growth... |
| No Substitute for a Teacher Nationally, 36 percent of teachers are absent more than 10 days per year... |
| Tax Relief for Child Care Should Be Maintained Child care merits tax relief because labor economists have proven that reductions in the cost of child care lead to increased work... |
| Toward Another Mortgage Meltdown? The mortgage loan system now in place is eerily reminiscent of the pre-housing bubble before 2007... |
| Plastic Bag Ban Leads to Increased Theft A January survey by Seattle Public Utilities reported that 21.1 percent of business owners believe an increase in shoplifting is due to the city's plastic bag ban... |
| ObamaCare Creates Moral Dilemma The burden of deciding which medical procedures are standard or culturally acceptable has been transferred from individuals and employers to the government under the Affordable Care Act... |
