US economic strength isn’t determined by the trade deficit. Deregulation and tax reform are helping businesses and workers. That said, ideal trade policy would get rid of all tariffs and quotas.
John C. Goodman
The New Resource Economics and the Environment
Using Private Property, Economic Incentives, and Markets to Solve Environmental Problems. Please do take the time to read through the PDF document below for more details.
Goodman at Forbes: What Socialism in Health Care Looks Like
Left-wing Democrats in Congress have decided on a new version of “Medicare for All.” Turns out its going to be nothing like the Medicare program seniors are used to. What they have in mind is what we see in Canada.
Hayworth on Hardball
The law allows the president wide latitude to determine what is a national emergency. Many facts are on his side on the southern border.
Why The GOP Loses Health Care Debates
Whenever Republicans and Democrats clash on health care, Republicans are almost always on the defensive and they almost always lose the debate.
You Cannot Control Health Care Costs by Pushing Down Prices
One of the very first things all students learn in their first economics course is the meaning of the word “cost.”
How Kotlikoff’s Lifetime Tax Calculator Works
The Fiscal Analyzer (TFA) is a detailed life-cycle consumption-smoothing program that projects income, taxes and spending for people of different ages and wealth levels.
The Year Ahead
A high priority will be to assess the effects of tax reform and to communicate the results widely. The Trump administration is using our ideas to reform Obamacare, Medicare and the health care system in general.
Kotlikoff: Ideal Tax Reform Pays for Itself
aurence Kotlikoff and his colleagues have used their state-of-the-art international model of capital flows to estimate the effects of a corporate tax reform that is very similar to the original proposal made by Paul Ryan and the House Republicans in 2016.
Goodman: Obamacare Alternatives Soar
According to Gallup, the number of people who are uninsured has risen over the last two years. Although this conclusion is disputed by government estimates, it’s very possible that no one is measuring the phenomenon correctly.