If Congress doesn't address its insolvency issues, payouts will need to be slashed by a quarter starting in fewer than 20 years.
Debt and deficits mount as lawmakers remain addicted to borrowing and spending.
There were a few silver linings for liberty lovers this past year.
The senator wants to force credit reporting agencies to offer useful services for free.
New taxes on foreign airlines is stripped from the Senate's tax reform package.
The House and Senate have both passed a bill. Now they have to iron out their differences.
Republicans prove that when they're in power, they like to spend just as much as Democrats do.
The House and Senate still refuse to consider cutting government spending.
You paid for your Thanksgiving meal before you even went to the store.
Trump's nominee to head the bank might help curb some of its excesses.
Price controls only create scarcity, impede innovation and raise prices.
Reducing the 401(k) tax deduction is a bad way to reform taxes.
Fiscal responsibility takes a backseat to cutting taxes.
The state and local tax deduction needs to go.
There is promise and peril in the GOP's corporate tax overhaul.
Corporate welfare for me, but not for thee.
Congress should take a scalpel to the corporate tax rate.
How we can fix our hopelessly outdated tax code.
The recent debt ceiling deal shows the limits of Trump's deal making abilities.
"Price gouging-like spinach-may be unappealing at first bite but it's good for everyone in the long run."
The treasury secretary has managed to put off debt ceiling calamity, but otherwise failed to embraced needed spending reforms.
Online gambling is under attack.
From solar to coal, politicians love to subsidize power production.
Small, achievable reforms are the key to tackling America's mounting national debt.
The GOP predictably fails to deliver on their small government rhetoric.
Once again the CFPB regulations make ordinary Americans worse off.
Businessmen should spend more time peddling products, not pushing protectionism.
Big airlines look to bring protectionism to the skies.
It's been a sweet two years with a hobbled Export-Import Bank. Now lets get rid of it entirely.
Republicans embrace more bad ideas on tax reform to avoid spending cuts.
Paul Ryan is needlessly holding up tax reform by pushing a harmful Border Adjustment Tax.
All too often the media demonizes companies for responding to the incentives politicians give them.
The most important thing the federal government can do is get out of the way.
The 2018 federal budget suggests small but necessary reforms.
Republicans dodge another opportunity to rein in spending.
The U.S. could be on the path to French-style economic sclerosis.
A transparent attempt to establish government control over the rare place where freedom is still highly regarded.
It's often described by some of its victims as a license for IRS imperialism.
It feels like mercantilism, hammering imports while promoting exports.
Let taxpayers in high-tax nations subsidize the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
The best place to start would be a cap on all spending or a strict cut-as-you-go system.
Medicaid is a terrible way to deliver health care to low-income Americans.
It's the one time of the year taxpayers are confronted with just how much of their earnings are captured by the government.
