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Why We Have Federal Deficits: An Updated Analysis
Federal deficits are at historic highs, price inflation is rearing its head, and lawmakers are progressively losing control over
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End Corporate Subsidy Skullduggery | The Detroit News
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Entitlement Cornucopia
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Expanding the Child Tax Credit Ignores Historical Precedent
No country ends poverty by redistributing wealth. Read more at Creators.
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This Time Is No Different
Veronique de Rugy breaks down the massive spending proposals President Biden outlined in his speech before a joint session of
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Understanding CBO’s Medicare for All Cost Estimates
In December 2020, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a comprehensive report analyzing the costs of a single-payer
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Modernizing Social Security to Serve Younger Generations
Over their lifetimes, a couple born around the year 2000 and earning an average wage can only expect to get 90 cents out of
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Answering Common Questions About Social Security: Part 2
A discussion of various proposed reforms. Read more at Discourse.
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Answering Common Questions About Social Security: Part 1
How it works, how it’s financed and why it faces a financing shortfall. Read more at Discourse.
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Government Spending Is Already Too Burdensome
Veronique de Rugy responds to the Family Income Supplemental Credit proposal put forward by Oren Cass and Wells King. Read more
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Veronique de Rugy on The John Batchelor Show - Romney's Family Security Act
Veronique de Rugy breaks down Sen. Mitt Romney's new bill, which would give families $350 per month for each young child and
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Ideas of India: Democracy, Deliberation, and Development
Shruti Rajagopalan and Biju Rao talk about Indian welfare systems and how local institutions can create bottom-up solutions to
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State and Local Governments Could Learn From Crises
Veronique de Rugy looks at state bailouts and argues against rescuing states that failed to prepare for crises.Read more in
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The Most Predictable Story of This Pandemic
Veronique de Rugy discusses the government's failure to properly distribute CARES Act funds.Read it in National Review Online.
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Give Individuals and Small Businesses a Government-Backed Line of Credit
Veronique de Rugy examines giving a government-backed line of credit as an alternative to the Paycheck Protection Program. Read
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Social Security Insolvency Is Rushing Toward Us
On Wednesday, April 22, the Social Security trustees issued their annual report on the program’s financial condition. The
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Keep Social Security Politics Out Of the Coronavirus Crisis Response
Federal lawmakers are currently struggling to pass a third coronavirus crisis response bill, by far the largest of the three
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Social Security Isn’t Doomed for Younger Generations
Tyler Cowen explains that Social Security will likely still pay out benefits to younger generations when they come of age.Read
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The Warren Plan to Paper Over the Costs of Medicare for All
Earlier today, presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released her proposal to ostensibly pay for the costs of
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How the Urban Institute’s Estimates of ‘Medicare for All’ Costs Stack Up Against Mine
Last week, a group of scholars from the Urban Institute (UI) released cost estimates for several alternative approaches to
