Phil Kerpen
It isn't often that two senators as far apart ideologically as Republican Bill Hagerty of Tennessee and Democrat Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland get together on a piece of legislation. The bill they wrote together – the Main Street Depositor Protect..
The health insurance industry always seems to win in Washington health care debates. The most famous example was Obamacare, which transformed from a liberal crusade against insurance companies into a law guaranteeing them new profits, mandating Amer..
Medicare Advantage, once a highly innovative and successful health care option providing unique benefit designs for older Americans, is becoming increasingly costly and unstable - and will now be under the microscope in a criminal investigation of o..
Elon Musk is probably the second-most powerful man in the world these days, so when he responded to Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey's "delete all IP law" post with "I agree," we need to take this radical proposal seriously. Musk and Dorsey want their..
The single most important pro-growth policy change in the "Big, Beautiful Bill" may not be in the tax title House Ways and Means has been working on, but in the work of the House Judiciary Committee, which has included a version of the REINS Act in ..
Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are at it again, hawking their "Loan Shark Prevention Act" with a shiny new 10% APR cap. Worse, they each have a Republican joined up - Josh Hawley of Missouri in the Senate and Anna Paulina Luna of Florid..
The clock is ticking. If Congress fails to act, the average American household will see their tax bill jump by over $3,000 at the end of this year. The economic imperative is also a political imperative for Republicans, who campaigned on keeping tax..
The housing crisis and subsequent financial crisis in 2008 was caused in large part by politicizing loan eligibility criteria, advancing social justice objectives over sound economics. Unfortunately, the Dodd-Frank law added even more politicization..
Vice President Kamala Harris is touting the Inflation Reduction Act, for which she cast the tiebreaking vote, as a signature achievement of the Biden-Harris Administration. Her proof point: through the legislation's government-enforced "negotiations..
The state visit by Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida isn't just about tea and photo ops. It's a wake-up call for the Biden administration to get serious about bilateral economic relations with one of our closest allies and to stop threatening to ..
The biggest disappointment of the Kevin McCarthy speakership was on work requirements for welfare. The Limit, Save, Grow Act – the opening House volley in the debt ceiling fight – was strong on work requirements, but the final debt ceiling deal ..
For two years, starting in 2015, the FCC regulated internet service providers as public utilities in the name of net neutrality. When the Trump FCC under Chairman Ajit Pai proposed to repeal those Obama-era regulations, the media and other Democrats..
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- 05/22/2025 To save Medicare Advantage we must reform it
- 05/14/2025 Intellectual property is America’s bedrock
- 04/30/2025 Big, beautiful bill should rein in regulation
- 03/18/2025 Bernie Sanders and AOC’s trap to destroy consumer credit
- 02/27/2025 Cancel the tax hike immediately and permanently
- 02/19/2025 Good Riddance to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- 09/18/2024 Stop the Biden-Harris raid on Medicare
- 04/10/2024 Biden wrong to oppose Nippon Steel Deal
- 11/09/2023 Farm bill must strengthen work requirements for food stamps
- 10/05/2023 FCC chair’s bad Wi-Fi not a reason to regulate the internet
- 09/14/2023 Biden’s illegal attack on gas-powered cars
- 07/13/2023 Governor’s flip shows teachers unions own the Democratic Party
- 06/06/2023 The AARP-UnitedHealth-Democrat combine
- 03/14/2023 Biden veto lets fund managers put politics over investors
- 01/23/2023 Biden’s second student loan bailout scheme is even worse
- 01/12/2023 More debt without spending reform is dirty
- 09/12/2022 Oklahoma and Missouri can stop Biden’s student loan bailout
- 07/01/2022 Democrats want to raid Medicare to pay for Obamacare – again
- 05/10/2022 Reject new energy taxes with prices already soaring
- 11/14/2021 Drug Price Controls Would Hurt Seniors
- 09/08/2021 Biden’s Double Death Tax
- 07/08/2021 Credit Card Rewards Are in Political Peril
- 06/29/2021 Biden’s Infrastructure Plan Ignores Success of Broadband
- 08/05/2020 Too Many of the Wrong Tests and None of the Right
- 06/23/2020 COVID-19: The Nursing Home Disease
- 06/15/2020 CBO Won’t Hide Biden’s Government Takeover of Health Care
- 05/14/2020 Unmasking AARP As A Front Group
- 04/28/2020 Coronavirus Failures Show Folly of Government-Controlled Medicine
- 04/21/2020 Enjoying Fast Internet During the Lockdown? Thank Trump’s FCC.
- 03/05/2020 Reject a Government Takeover of Consumer Lending
- 02/14/2020 MAGA Companies Power Trump Stock Boom
- 11/27/2019 Trump Should Veto Greedy Green Act
- 11/20/2019 Transparency for Big Tech: The Least-Bad Option
- 10/24/2019 Fed Power Grab Will Delay Real-Time Payments
- 09/03/2019 Trump Should End Tax Pelosi Also Once Wanted to Kill
- 08/19/2019 Why Milton Friedman Rightly Opposed Drug Policy
- 06/24/2019 WWI Era Law is Hurting Puerto Rico
- 05/14/2019 Let Electric Vehicle Subsidies Die on Schedule
- 02/25/2019 Sick of Cable TV Fees? The FCC Could Help.
- 02/11/2019 Trump’s FCC Could Make WiFi Great Again
- 01/02/2019 Don’t Import Foreign Price Controls – Break Them
- 12/01/2018 What Trump Should Do About Electric Vehicle Subsidies
- 11/15/2018 Senate Republicans Are Blocking Trump Appointments
- 10/15/2018 Democrats Voted to Take Health Care Away from Millions
- 09/11/2018 Mulvaney Should Lift Cloud from Student Loan Trusts
- 08/05/2018 Trump is Right to End Obama’s Fuel Economy Scheme
- 07/26/2018 GOP Can’t Appease the Left Caving on Key Issues
- 06/25/2018 Nanny Bloomberg Wants to Tax the World’s Poor
- 06/14/2018 Democrat Net Neutrality Plan is Really About Raising Taxes
- 05/15/2018 Farm Bill Should Reform More Than Food Stamps
- 05/03/2018 Democrats Exploit McCain Absence for Stunt Vote
