Commentary
Business & Economics
Fast food minimum wage’s predictable result: Fewer jobs, even higher prices to come
Wouldn’t it be nice if the government could make everyone richer simply by passing laws that increase our income? Unfortunately, our world doesn’t work that way. When government chooses winners, someone loses, and nothing illustrates this better than when lawmakers set wage floors, as they did with California’s $20 fast-food ...
Commentary
Growing LNG Exports Demonstrate The Benefits Of Deregulation
Less than three years ago, Germany was capping energy prices and considering rationing fuel as Europe scrambled to replace cheap Russian oil and natural gas. Today the German market is well supplied and, as of March 10, 2025, no shortages are anticipated. Transformative investments in U.S. based liquefied natural gas ...
Biosimilars
Fixing The Regulatory Flaws Biosimilars Face Will Help Patients
About a month ago, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced the next 15 drugs that will be subject to the maximum fair price (MFP) negotiation process. These negotiations are essentially a means to impose price controls on selected medicines. If the Trump Administration truly wants to help patients, ...
Commentary
We Can’t Afford Timidity in Revamping Medicaid
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a budget resolution by the narrowest of margins. The most controversial component of the bill concerns Medicaid. Democrats have castigated the resolution on the grounds that it would make steep cuts to the joint federal-state public healthcare entitlement. Even some Republicans have expressed ...
Commentary
Newsom’s misguided climate priorities endanger Californians
The state and local governments’ responsibility for the failures that led to the cataclysmic Los Angeles wildfires in January 2025 will eventually be determined. But even at this juncture, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his legislative majority cannot escape their responsibility for their budget priorities that have funded a misguided ...
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President and Congress Should Eliminate Wasteful Healthcare Subsidies
Big insurers are beginning to panic. At the end of this year, the generous COVID-era taxpayer subsidies they’ve enjoyed on coverage sold through Obamacare’s exchanges will expire. Good. The subsidies represent billions of dollars in corporate welfare for insurance companies — and obscure how premiums have surged under Obamacare. Read ...
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James Madison and the Crisis of the New Order
In his history of the New Deal, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. called the events that precipitated the election of Franklin Roosevelt and the creation of the New Deal “The Crisis of the Old Order.” Building on the ideas of the earlier Progressive Movement… Roosevelt led a realignment, and helped to create ...
Commentary
End Federal Welfare For Universities, Insurers
When it comes to government spending, President Trump may just be the DOGE who caught the car. Thanks in large part to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, Americans are learning about all sorts of waste that only the most ardent readers of government reports and websites knew of. Read ...
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Why House Republican Budget Cuts Should Start With Health Insurance Subsidies
Last night, House Republicans passed a critical budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year that calls for $2 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years to get America’s fiscal house in order and address our $35 trillion national debt. Congress should start by addressing one of the economy’s biggest pain ...
Commentary
RFK Jr. Can Breathe New Life Into HHS
Speaking to agency staffers last week, newly installed Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., insisted that “nothing is off limits” in his fight against chronic disease. It’s an encouraging message. HHS is in desperate need of modernization. Read the entire op-ed in Newsmax.
Fast food minimum wage’s predictable result: Fewer jobs, even higher prices to come
Wouldn’t it be nice if the government could make everyone richer simply by passing laws that increase our income? Unfortunately, our world doesn’t work that way. When government chooses winners, someone loses, and nothing illustrates this better than when lawmakers set wage floors, as they did with California’s $20 fast-food ...
Growing LNG Exports Demonstrate The Benefits Of Deregulation
Less than three years ago, Germany was capping energy prices and considering rationing fuel as Europe scrambled to replace cheap Russian oil and natural gas. Today the German market is well supplied and, as of March 10, 2025, no shortages are anticipated. Transformative investments in U.S. based liquefied natural gas ...
Fixing The Regulatory Flaws Biosimilars Face Will Help Patients
About a month ago, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced the next 15 drugs that will be subject to the maximum fair price (MFP) negotiation process. These negotiations are essentially a means to impose price controls on selected medicines. If the Trump Administration truly wants to help patients, ...
We Can’t Afford Timidity in Revamping Medicaid
Last week, the House of Representatives passed a budget resolution by the narrowest of margins. The most controversial component of the bill concerns Medicaid. Democrats have castigated the resolution on the grounds that it would make steep cuts to the joint federal-state public healthcare entitlement. Even some Republicans have expressed ...
Newsom’s misguided climate priorities endanger Californians
The state and local governments’ responsibility for the failures that led to the cataclysmic Los Angeles wildfires in January 2025 will eventually be determined. But even at this juncture, California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his legislative majority cannot escape their responsibility for their budget priorities that have funded a misguided ...
President and Congress Should Eliminate Wasteful Healthcare Subsidies
Big insurers are beginning to panic. At the end of this year, the generous COVID-era taxpayer subsidies they’ve enjoyed on coverage sold through Obamacare’s exchanges will expire. Good. The subsidies represent billions of dollars in corporate welfare for insurance companies — and obscure how premiums have surged under Obamacare. Read ...
James Madison and the Crisis of the New Order
In his history of the New Deal, Arthur Schlesinger Jr. called the events that precipitated the election of Franklin Roosevelt and the creation of the New Deal “The Crisis of the Old Order.” Building on the ideas of the earlier Progressive Movement… Roosevelt led a realignment, and helped to create ...
End Federal Welfare For Universities, Insurers
When it comes to government spending, President Trump may just be the DOGE who caught the car. Thanks in large part to Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, Americans are learning about all sorts of waste that only the most ardent readers of government reports and websites knew of. Read ...
Why House Republican Budget Cuts Should Start With Health Insurance Subsidies
Last night, House Republicans passed a critical budget proposal for the upcoming fiscal year that calls for $2 trillion in spending cuts over 10 years to get America’s fiscal house in order and address our $35 trillion national debt. Congress should start by addressing one of the economy’s biggest pain ...
RFK Jr. Can Breathe New Life Into HHS
Speaking to agency staffers last week, newly installed Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., insisted that “nothing is off limits” in his fight against chronic disease. It’s an encouraging message. HHS is in desperate need of modernization. Read the entire op-ed in Newsmax.
