K Street weans itself off Russian money…for now
Official Washington has long been a magnet for foreign money and influence – including plenty of money from dictatorships and their suspect state enterprises. It’s no surprise, then, that Russia…
Democratic Socialists blame the west, sending their Democratic allies scurrying for cover
The Russian invasion of Ukraine may become a big headache for those Democratic House members who also affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America. The reason the DSA’s statement that,…
Seattle soda tax encourages switch to beer
Taxes can change behavior. Economists have known this for decades, but politicians…not so much. An example of how taxes can change behavior comes from Seattle, where local pols decided to…
The extent of stimulus theft gets bigger by the day
The $6 trillion worth of federal stimulus money that washed through the economy in the pandemic’s wake created an obvious and enduring problem: how to make sure it didn’t end…
Biden DoJ and FBI go hunting for inflation criminals
The depth of the panic inside the Biden White House over rising prices continues to manifest itself in new and disturbing ways. The most recent? The Department of Justice and…
Big Brother wants your picture
The welcome news that the IRS will drop its creepy facial recognition program (and any biometric data it currently has will be deleted), is good news. But that’s just one…
Cleaning up the tax code to foster prosperity
One item not on the Biden administration’s economic agenda is tax reform. That’s no surprise, considering Team Biden’s default position has been to raise taxes, a lot, without a thought…
Real wages, inflation, and congressional mid-terms
There’s one clear thing we know about inflation and the Biden administration: they are worried about it. Not just because inflation undermines paychecks and savings. It has a nasty tendency…
The coming tax season “disaster”
The IRS is in big trouble and taxpayers may be the ones who suffer the consequences this tax filing season. The mammoth backlog of unprocessed returns from the previous year,…
GAO: HHS unprepared for the next pandemic
The Government Accountability Office recently issued a report on whether the Department of Health and Human Services would be able to handle a new pandemic or other global health threat….
