Daily Policy Digest
| Reforming Medicare To bring health care spending under control, markets should be allowed to function fully, says John C. Goodman, president of the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Why Economic Backwardness Persists Many rulers around the world calculate that it is better to keep people in poverty than risk losing the privileges of political power... |
| State and Local Property Taxes Target Commercial and Industrial Property Commercial properties face higher tax rates than residential properties in 39 states... |
| ObamaCare Faces the Implementation Iceberg With the fiscal cliff approaching, it is likely that implementation of certain ObamaCare provisions, especially state exchanges, will be pushed back even farther... |
| Why $16 Trillion Only Hints at the True U.S. Debt The actual liabilities of the federal government -- including Social Security, Medicare and federal employees' future retirement benefits -- already exceed $86.8 trillion, or 550 percent of gross domestic product... |
| Understanding Job Statistics Labor force participation (job seekers and the employed) has declined from 66 percent before the recession to 63.8 percent, says Robert McTeer, a distinguished fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| A Role for Entrepreneurs Although technology (innovation) may add to costs in the near-term, empirical analysis reflects that the benefıts outweigh expenditures over time... |
| The EPA vs. State Economies This year, 40 percent of the nation's corn will be used for ethanol manufacturing, increasing corn prices, harming state poultry, beef, pork and dairy farmers who use corn as animal feed... |
| Buffett Tax on Rich Will Hurt Average Americans Last year, according to the Treasury Department, the U.S. deficit was $1.1 trillion; a Buffett-style 30 percent tax on all millionaires would generate just $5 billion... |
| A "Cliff" Deal Could Still Cost Consumers Billions The impact of the scheduled tax hikes and spending cuts under the "fiscal cliff" would take more than $600 billion from the economy... |
