American Innovation and Choice Act is none of those things. But it is a window into economic ignorance
The Senate is holding hearings on a bill called the”American Innovation and Choice Act.” Sounds good, right? Who could be against choice and innovation? Congress, of course. And as Wayne…
Biden’s Delaware dodge
Joe Biden has a habit of pointing to the relative economic success of his home state of Delaware as a reason to trust his judgement on massive tax and spend…
How to waste a pile of federal education money
The nation’s public schools got more than $100 billion in federal aid to help them safely reopen after the worst of the coronavirus passed. It’s been several months since those…
Inflation is going to be with us for a while
More and more economists, as well as the public at-large, are coming to see and expect what the central bankers prefer not to think about: inflation is going to be…
War time taxes to fund the dead hand of big government
The Biden administration wants to raise taxes. A lot. On a lot of people – more than the president is willing to admit. There are many reasons given for the…
Big government solutions will stifle the free market
There’s a bipartisan movement in Congress to fix what isn’t broken. While such a tendency is hardly new to official Washington, the recent impulse sees politicians from both sides of…
PRO-SPEECH Act is really just more intrusive big government
A new piece of legislation called the PRO-SPEECH Act is now making the round sin the Senate, and its creator, Mississippi Republican Roger Wicker, assures the world the bill will…
Picking big tech’s pocket to pay for big government’s increasingly expensive promises
Land line telephones still exist, but the numbers are rapidly dwindling as the switch to cell phone-only communication accelerates. It’s the marketplace in action, and it’s a good thing. Unless…
Tearing down private enterprise to enhance Big Government
Over in the House of Representatives, a bipartisan gaggle of members is putting forward legislation that would force some of the nation’s biggest technology companies to break-up or spin-off certain…
A bipartisan Senate majority endorses a costly, unnecessary industrial policy
The U.S. Senate has decided to go all-in on a new U.S. industrial policy, voting 68-32 to approve a $250 billion package that is supposed to help America stay ahead…
