Daily Policy Digest
| Many Reasons to Lower the Corporate Tax Rate Models show that the long-term growth rate for gross domestic product would rise by 2.2 percent at a 25 percent corporate tax rate but fall by 2.8 percent at a 45 percent corporate tax rate... |
| Practices to Improve Government Transparency The data.gov Web site provides a large amount of data sets but most fail to expose the deliberations, management and results of the agencies... |
| Workers Saving Too Little to Retire A 2012 report by the Employee Benefit Research Institute shows that 57 percent of U.S. workers reported less than $25,000 in total household savings and investments, excluding their homes... |
| Texas Should Ignore Calls to Increase Utility Regulation To further enhance the competitiveness of its electricity and telecommunications markets, Texas should reduce local franchise fees to reflect actual coasts of managing the public right-of-way for utility companies... |
| One in Three Elderly Have Dementia When They Die Medicare costs for seniors with Alzheimer's or other forms of dementia are nearly three times higher than for seniors without any form of dementia... |
| An Economic and Policy Analysis of Florida Medicaid Expansion Florida families between 100 percent and 138 percent of the poverty line would be better off if they enrolled in private coverage or subsidized coverage in the health insurance exchange, say Devon M. Herrick and Linda Gorman, senior fellows at the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Physicians Abandon Insurance in Favor of Direct Payments For doctors with private practices, eliminating insurance will reduce the number of patients they care for but allow them to make more money and provide better care... |
| Government Efficiency Mandates Harm Consumers New technologies are prone to unforeseen costs and should not be mandated in the name of efficiency... |
| Prescription Drug Costs Dropped in 2012 A drop in sales of prescription drugs happened for the first time since 1957... |
| Los Angeles Moves to Eliminate Reliance on Coal-Powered Energy The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is moving forward with a plan to end the city's reliance on coal-powered energy... |
