Biden Wants To Empower the IRS Despite Its Track Record of Trampling Rights and Undermining Privacy
The IRS' track record suggests that beefed up enforcement will also mean more trampling of Americans' due process rights.
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Inflation Is at a 30-Year High. Biden's Big Economy Speech Barely Mentioned It.
The president should be more worried about inflation, and government responsibility for it, than he's acting.
House-Passed 'Build Back Better' Plan Aims To Curb Methane Emissions by Hiking Heating Prices
The Congressional Budget Office projects that the tax will raise nearly $8 billion over the next 10 years. That money will come out of consumers' wallets.
CBO: Biden's 'Build Back Better' Plan Will Add $367 Billion to the Deficit
The Congressional Budget Office's analysis of the bill is unlikely to prevent its passage through the House. A vote could happen later tonight.
A Judge Just Did What Biden Wouldn't: Dump Some Trump Tariffs
Instead of taking his own actions to undo an unlawful order from the former chief executive, President Joe Biden had the government's attorneys argue in favor of even greater trade powers for the White House.
OSHA Halts Enforcement of Biden Vaccine Mandate, Pending Litigation
The agency is staying in its lane—for now.
A Federal Judge Denied Trump's Claims of Permanent Executive Privilege
In denying the former president's claims of executive privilege, a federal judge sets a blueprint which should apply to sitting presidents as well.
Kamala Harris Was Unpopular Before She Became Vice President. Nothing Seems To Have Changed.
Harris' attempts at evolving her political image away from being a law-and-order prosecutor have been disingenuous and unconvincing.
Biden Administration, School Board Association Colluded To Direct FBI Scrutiny at Parents Who Were Critical of School Boards
The National School Boards Association considers aggrieved parents essentially "domestic terrorists," and the FBI agreed to crack down on them.
A Federal Vaping Tax Is Bad Policy and Bad Politics
The proposed vaping tax has caused a third Democrat to join Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema in opposing the bill.
The White House Says More Government Spending Will Fix Inflation
Plus: Administrative bloat conquers Yale, the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow wraps up, and more...
FBI Raid of James O'Keefe's House Is a Blow to Press Freedom
Plus: Consumer prices surge, a Virginia school district talks openly about burning books, and more...
America's Ports Need More Robots, but the $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill Won't Fund Automation
The one thing that would most help increase efficiency at America's lagging ports is also the one thing that Biden's union allies dislike the most.
Trump Laid the Groundwork for Biden's Infrastructure Boondoggle
It's Biden's bill, but Trump helped set the stage.
Federal Court Temporarily Stays OSHA Employer Vaccination Mandate
The stay may only last a very short time. But it does suggest the judges think the plaintiffs have a serious case to make against the mandate.
Congress Finally Passed Biden's Inefficient, Deficit-Hiking Infrastructure Bill
It's one of the most expensive legislative packages in American history, but the $1.2 trillion bill will end up doing far less than it otherwise could have.
OSHA Employer Vaccination Mandate is Narrower than Earlier White House Announcement—But Still has Legal Vulnerabilities [Updated with brief response to Jonathan Adler]
The rule just issued by OSHA has fewer legal flaws than the initial plan floated by the White House. But it's still problematic, and could set a dangerous precedent if upheld by courts.
A Tax Break for the Rich Could End up Being the Largest Part of the 'Build Back Better' Plan
Removing the cap on the state and local tax deduction would be a massive tax break for wealthy Americans who choose to live in high-tax states.
Stop The Steel: Biden Is Replacing Trump's Tariffs With Import Quotas
Biden will allow 3.3 million metric tons of European-made steel to be imported annually without tariffs. After that, Trump's 25 percent tariffs will remain in force.
Joe Biden Presses Ahead With Vaccine Mandates, Inviting Legal Challenges
Plus: The Twin Cities will both vote on rent control ballot initiatives, New Jersey and Virginia voters will pick a new governor, and more...
Manchin: Biden's New Spending Plan Relies on 'Shell Games' and 'Budget Gimmicks'
"I'm open to supporting a final bill that helps move our country forward, but I'm equally open to voting against a bill that hurts our country," Manchin says.
Biden Dumps Free Community College From Spending Bill
These schools are already extremely accessible to low-income students. Don’t mess with their flexibility.
After Paid Leave Plan Gets Chopped, Biden Promises Revamped Spending Proposal
Plus: Six Flags arbitrage, Tom Cotton misleads about qualified immunity, and more...
Freedom, Responsibility, and Coronavirus Policy
Plus: The Reason Roundtable makes talking about taxes interesting.
Why Biden's $3.5 Trillion Spending Plan Would Be Worse for the Economy Than Manchin's $1.5 Trillion Proposal
Manchin's $1.5 trillion plan is still bigger than the Obama stimulus, and would be a major expansion of government's power to redistribute wealth.
President Biden Doesn't Follow D.C.'s Absurd Mask Rules for Restaurants
End the mask mandates now.
Biden Reverses Trump's Showerhead Deregulation
"You have showers where I can't wash my hair properly. It's a disaster!" said Trump in 2015.
Biden Administration Set To Reinstate 'Remain in Mexico' Policy Next Month
The Trump-era border measure relegated 70,000 migrants to dangerous conditions in Mexico while they awaited immigration court dates.
Biden, Like Trump, Uses the Pandemic To Expel Migrants
Title 42 expulsions are a cruel and indiscriminate pandemic mitigation measure.
High Inflation Is Here To Stay
But the people in power won’t even say as much, let alone do something about it.
Congress Raised the Debt Ceiling Again Without Doing Anything To Fix the $28 Trillion National Debt
Plus: Why "reforming" Section 230 makes little sense, the FDA finally admits vaping is safer than smoking, the U.S. will reopen its land borders with Canada and Mexico, and more...
Banks and Trade Groups Reject Saule Omarova, Biden's New Currency Comptroller Pick
Omarova's starry-eyed view of the Soviet Union and interest in giving far more power to the Federal Reserve should not inspire confidence.
Americans Paid $7.6 Billion in Tariffs During August, a New Monthly Record
The trade deficit is now the widest on record too.
Don't Ask Politicians To Fix a Supply Chain Crisis They Created
Governments may not be able to make an economy, but they've proven they can break it.
Biden's China Trade Policy Is Littered With Contradictions
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai stresses the need for American competitiveness at the same time that the White House is pushing huge tax increases on U.S. businesses. And that's just the start.
Joe Biden's Misguided Attack on Tax Havens
President Joe Biden apparently thinks it's wrong for corporations to locate their headquarters in low-tax places like Bermuda, Ireland, and Switzerland. Did he learn nothing from living in Delaware?
Democrats Are Denying Basic Economics
Under Biden, Democrats have decided that their agenda has no costs and no tradeoffs.
Dems' Plan To 'Tax the Rich' Might Include a Huge Tax Break for the Rich
Repealing the cap on the SALT deduction would overwhelmingly benefit the wealthiest households in America.
Biden Says $3.5 Trillion Reconciliation Bill Has a Price Tag of 'Zero.' That's Dubious.
Democrats are now relying on the same "dynamic scoring" technique they've previously criticized.
Get the Americans With Disabilities Act Out of the COVID Wars
There’s no clean way this applies to the pandemic.
Biden Can't Fix High Beef Prices With $500 Million
But spending more would be a bigger mistake. Sometimes, there simply isn't a government solution to a problem.
Biden: You Will Get a Booster Shot When the CDC Says So
If the government is going to approve them for everyone eventually, why wait?
U.S. To Continue Cruel Treatment of Haitian Refugees—But Not on Horseback
Plus: Debt myopia, tech trade groups sue over Texas social media law, abortion providers ask SCOTUS to reconsider, and more...
Tariffs on Chinese Imports Have Accomplished Approximately Nothing
A new study shows that former President Donald Trump's tariffs did little to push American companies out of China.
Excessive Bureaucracy Is Making America's Broken Immigration System Worse
A new Government Accountability Office report offers a useful lesson about the often unseen, human costs of making forms more difficult to fill out.
FDA Advisory Panel Votes Against Biden's Proposed Broad COVID-19 Booster Shot Rollout
It did recommend authorizing boosters for those over age 65
