With the debate over health care heating up again, Medicare for All once more is a hot topic. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., has sponsored a new version of his Senate bill that promises to free Americans from health care concerns. But at the core of the Sanders bill is still the vast and fundamentally illiberal restriction on…
James Carville famously said about politics that, “It’s the economy, stupid”. So what is our current economy telling us? Unemployment is at a 49 year low. Wage growth is strong (a steady 3%, the highest in about ten years), outpacing inflation (which has been steady at roughly 2%), as companies are competing to gain or…
Michael Bastasch on December 25, 2018 Democrats are lining up to support Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal.” The proposal could be the largest expansion of government since the Great Society or New Deal. Ocasio-Cortez’s plan could cost tens of trillions of dollars. Democrats are increasingly lining up to support a “Green New Deal,”…