The Public Option: When Competition Isn’t Really Competition
It is, instead, a prelude to monopoly. That is the case with the “public option” in the health care reform desired by the left: The problem is that government, by definition, isn’t just another...
View ArticleQuote of the day – health care version
Got a huge chuckle out of Steven Levitt’s opening sentence at the Freakanomics blog: Many economists view the health-care bill passed in the U.S. earlier this year as falling somewhere between “a...
View ArticleCorporate taxes: We’re number 1
As of April 1st, when Japan officially lowered its corporate tax rate, we took over the top spot in the world, as James Pethokoukis points out: With Japan officially cutting its corporate tax rate as...
View ArticleSo why are private unions in decline and government unions still strong?
If you haven’t figured it out yet, it has to do with competition in one area and none in the other. How so? James Taranto sums it up pretty nicely on the private union side of things: The trouble for...
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