Daily Policy Digest
| Should U.S. Fiscal Policy Address Slow Growth or the Debt? A Nondilemma The United States faces two economic challenges: slow growth and an ever-increasing ratio of debt to gross domestic product... |
| Disease Management Programs Don't Work A new study concludes that diabetic disease management programs in Washington, Texas and Georgia were not effective... |
| As 2013 Begins, Get Ready For an ObamaCare Tax Onslaught The medical device tax under the new health law will impose a 2.3 percent on profit from gross sales, even if the company has no profit at all... |
| The Domino Effect of Green Energy Failure A123's bankruptcy is not the first time that a government-subsidized company has collapsed and hurt another government-subsidized company... |
| Health Insurers Raise Some Rates by Double Digits, Despite New Health Law PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates that health care costs may increase just 7.5 percent next year, well below the rate increases being sought by some insurers... |
| Advantages of Low Capital Gains Tax Rates If policymakers are willing to cut the capital gains tax, the tax base would expand overtime and overall economic activity would be increased... |
| Some Eco-Friendly Light Bulbs May Put Health at Risk Researchers at Stony Brook University found that in every "eco-friendly" compact fluorescent light bulb tested the coating of phosphor around the bulb was cracked, allowing ultraviolet rays to escape... |
| How Corporate Tax Credits Got in the "Cliff" Deal The fiscal cliff legislation included $76 billion in special interest tax credits for several companies... |
| If Demography Is Destiny, Good News for Texas, North Dakota and D.C. North Dakota and Washington, D.C., experienced the largest population inflows from other states, at 2.6 and 2.4 percent of their 2010 populations, respectively... |
| How to Reduce the Debt Burden for Future Generations Politicians need to focus on making the debt easier to pay off with growth strategies... |
