Wayne Winegarden
Business & Economics
Making It Rain In California
The “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (TCJA) was signed into law on Dec. 22, 2017. The Act reformed the U.S. corporate income tax code cutting the rate to a globally competitive 21%. Reforms on the personal income tax side, which are scheduled to expire in 2025, reduced the marginal income ...
Wayne Winegarden
August 19, 2019
Environment
Wine Winegarden Talks Colorado’s CLEAR vehicle emission plan on the Americhiks with Kim Monson
Wayne Winegarden joins the Americhiks with Kim Monson to discuss Colorado’s new CLEAR vehicle emission regulations.
Wayne Winegarden
August 15, 2019
Drug Pricing
What to Know in Washington: When Drugs Make News, Trump Reacts
Staffers at the Department of Health and Human Services have gotten used to a pattern: President Donald Trump sees a news report on spikes in prescription-drug list prices, Secretary Alex Azar is called to a meeting in the Oval Office, and a policy in the discussion stage gets accelerated and ...
Wayne Winegarden
August 15, 2019
Business & Economics
NEW STUDY: State and Local Tax Deduction “Makes it Rain” in California, Paid for by Taxpayers in Low Tax States
A new study released today by the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute, a California-based free market think tank, found that capping the State and Local Tax deduction brought broad-based tax relief to millions of Americans, while putting an end to taxpayers in low-tax states like Indiana subsidizing higher taxes and spending ...
Wayne Winegarden
August 15, 2019
Commentary
Colorado’s big government emissions mandate
Colorado officials are painting a rosy picture of the impact on the economy and the environment from its low emission vehicle standards’ known as the Colorado Low Emission Automobile Regulation, or CLEAR. State officials prepared an initial economic impact analysis of the regulations, which replicate California’s expensive auto emissions standards, ...
Wayne Winegarden
August 7, 2019
Environment
Wayne Winegarden Colorado study featured in the Center Square
Wayne Winegarden’s most recent study on a new vehicle emissions regulation in Colorado (Colorado’s Low Emission Automobile Regulation (CLEAR): An Evaluation of the Initial Economic Impact Analysis) was featured in an article on The Center Square. Wayne is PRI’s Senior Fellow in Business and Economics. “But a critical analysis of ...
Wayne Winegarden
August 7, 2019
Commentary
Trump’s Drug Importation Policy Is Folly, Just Ask Canadians
The Trump Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has officially proposed legalizing the importation of drugs from Canada (e.g. the Safe Importation Action Plan). Canadians’ reactions provide an important perspective demonstrating why drug importation will harm the U.S. Despite assurances from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canadians are worried ...
Wayne Winegarden
August 7, 2019
Commentary
Americans Support Paying for Miracle Cures
Without pro-market payment reforms, cutting edge medical treatments known as gene therapies run the risk of becoming the dance that no one attends. Gene therapies are not medicines, instead, they are akin to an organ transplant. These procedures typically use re-engineered viruses to repair, replace, or shut off malfunctioning genes ...
Wayne Winegarden
August 5, 2019
Commentary
Wayne Winegarden in Forbes: Inflation Caps Are Price Controls By Another Name
From the time we were toddlers, it has always been tempting to bang the square peg into the round hole. After all, there is always that one square peg that seems like it should just about fit into that round hole, and it would feel so satisfying if it did. ...
Wayne Winegarden
July 26, 2019
Health Care
ISSUE BRIEF: Increased Use of Biosimilars Could Bring Billions in Savings for Patients, Providers, Taxpayers
Biosimilars have the potential to realize billions in savings for the health care system if reforms are enacted to incent their market share to grow, according to a new issue brief issued today by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the California-based, free-market think tank, the Pacific Research ...
Wayne Winegarden
July 11, 2019
Making It Rain In California
The “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act” (TCJA) was signed into law on Dec. 22, 2017. The Act reformed the U.S. corporate income tax code cutting the rate to a globally competitive 21%. Reforms on the personal income tax side, which are scheduled to expire in 2025, reduced the marginal income ...
Wine Winegarden Talks Colorado’s CLEAR vehicle emission plan on the Americhiks with Kim Monson
Wayne Winegarden joins the Americhiks with Kim Monson to discuss Colorado’s new CLEAR vehicle emission regulations.
What to Know in Washington: When Drugs Make News, Trump Reacts
Staffers at the Department of Health and Human Services have gotten used to a pattern: President Donald Trump sees a news report on spikes in prescription-drug list prices, Secretary Alex Azar is called to a meeting in the Oval Office, and a policy in the discussion stage gets accelerated and ...
NEW STUDY: State and Local Tax Deduction “Makes it Rain” in California, Paid for by Taxpayers in Low Tax States
A new study released today by the nonpartisan Pacific Research Institute, a California-based free market think tank, found that capping the State and Local Tax deduction brought broad-based tax relief to millions of Americans, while putting an end to taxpayers in low-tax states like Indiana subsidizing higher taxes and spending ...
Colorado’s big government emissions mandate
Colorado officials are painting a rosy picture of the impact on the economy and the environment from its low emission vehicle standards’ known as the Colorado Low Emission Automobile Regulation, or CLEAR. State officials prepared an initial economic impact analysis of the regulations, which replicate California’s expensive auto emissions standards, ...
Wayne Winegarden Colorado study featured in the Center Square
Wayne Winegarden’s most recent study on a new vehicle emissions regulation in Colorado (Colorado’s Low Emission Automobile Regulation (CLEAR): An Evaluation of the Initial Economic Impact Analysis) was featured in an article on The Center Square. Wayne is PRI’s Senior Fellow in Business and Economics. “But a critical analysis of ...
Trump’s Drug Importation Policy Is Folly, Just Ask Canadians
The Trump Administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has officially proposed legalizing the importation of drugs from Canada (e.g. the Safe Importation Action Plan). Canadians’ reactions provide an important perspective demonstrating why drug importation will harm the U.S. Despite assurances from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canadians are worried ...
Americans Support Paying for Miracle Cures
Without pro-market payment reforms, cutting edge medical treatments known as gene therapies run the risk of becoming the dance that no one attends. Gene therapies are not medicines, instead, they are akin to an organ transplant. These procedures typically use re-engineered viruses to repair, replace, or shut off malfunctioning genes ...
Wayne Winegarden in Forbes: Inflation Caps Are Price Controls By Another Name
From the time we were toddlers, it has always been tempting to bang the square peg into the round hole. After all, there is always that one square peg that seems like it should just about fit into that round hole, and it would feel so satisfying if it did. ...
ISSUE BRIEF: Increased Use of Biosimilars Could Bring Billions in Savings for Patients, Providers, Taxpayers
Biosimilars have the potential to realize billions in savings for the health care system if reforms are enacted to incent their market share to grow, according to a new issue brief issued today by the Center for Medical Economics and Innovation at the California-based, free-market think tank, the Pacific Research ...