Daily Policy Digest
| Federal Aviation Administration Proposes Unnecessary Privacy Regulations on Drone Test Sites The Federal Aviation Administration should refrain from making any guidelines on privacy because its expertise is solely in regulating aeronautics, not in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence... |
| Obama Budget Proposals Raises Taxes on Middle Class For the first time in his presidency, Obama is proposing to raise taxes on people below the $250,000 threshold... |
| Federal Reserve's Huge Balance Sheet Poses Risk If it follows its current path, the Federal Reserve's balance sheet will not return to its historical norm of around 6 percent of gross domestic product until 2022... |
| Teacher Preparation Education Programs Need Reform Through journal keeping and in-class dialogues, many teachers are taught that they are activists for social justice... |
| States Could Push Part-Time Workers Into Exchanges Washington state is planning to push part-time employees who currently receive health coverage through the state into the health exchange mandated by the Affordable Care Act... |
| House Republicans Working to Craft ObamaCare Alternative Because the third-party payment system isolates patients from actually paying the bills they incur, doctors do not compete on the basis of price, says John C. Goodman, president and CEO of the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Widowhood Leads to Higher Out-Of-Pocket Medical Expenses Upon widowhood, average monthly out-of-pocket medical spending rises by $34.25 and out-of-pocket nursing home expenditures increase by $24.11 per month... |
| Health Exchanges Could Lack Competition The American Medical Association estimates that a single insurance company held 50 percent or more of the market in nearly 70 percent of local markets nationwide, meaning many state insurance exchanges will lack competition... |
| Revisiting the High Tax Rates of the 1950s While the top tax bracket faced a marginal tax rate of 91 percent in the 1950s, less than one-tenth of one percent of Americans paid this rate... |
| Danes Overhaul Generous Welfare State Only 47 percent of Denmark's total population worked in 2012 and many of those who did worked short hours with all the perks, including an unofficial $20 an hour minimum wage... |
