October 9, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Main Priority Is Expanding Welfare, Not Strengthening the Middle Class
Last week’s vice-presidential debate was chock-full of references to the middle class and plans to improve…
August 29, 2024
Kamala Harris Wants to Turn the Tax Code into a Mammoth ATM
Given her liberal record, it’s no surprise that Vice President Kamala Harris’s recently released economic agenda calls…
August 15, 2024
Kamala Harris Will Pay You Not to Work
A recent study confirms that universal basic income—no-strings-attached benefit checks offered to recipients regardless of need or…
August 1, 2024
Two Outrageous Bills Kamala Harris Sponsored Would Crush Taxpayers
As a U.S. senator, Vice President Kamala Harris had a remarkably slim record of accomplishments,…
May 30, 2024
The Contradictions in Democrats’ Child Tax Credit Expansion Promises
Politicians regularly vie for the support of parents with promises of good schools, bigger family…
May 8, 2024
Beltway Liberals Are Playing Name Games to Expand the Welfare State
Higher prices aren’t the only kind of inflation coming out of Washington these days. Wildly inflated group…
April 8, 2024
We Still Don’t Know How Much Taxpayers Lost Due to Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Fraud
One of the first programs Congress created to assist Americans thrown out of work by…
April 4, 2024
Biden’s ‘Tax Cut’ Rhetoric Is Really Just Code For Benefit Increases
President Biden’s rhetoric about his new budget proposal suggests it is full of tax relief for working families….
February 9, 2024
Resolving to Learn Lessons from Record Pandemic Fraud
Congress doesn’t make New Year’s resolutions, but if it did, digesting our new report on…
January 11, 2024
Tax Credit Nation — Politicians Are Casting New Spending As ‘Tax Cuts,’ Hiding Their True Cost
With the national debt soaring past $34 trillion, liberal politicians hoping to expand the federal…
January 11, 2024
To Better Promote Work, Stop Subsidizing More Benefit Collection
“Income disregard” policies allow welfare programs to ignore the value of certain government benefits when determining eligibility, making recipients appear poorer than they are and consequently expanding assistance. Pandemic-era policies temporarily disregarded large stimulus payments and other enhanced benefits, contributing to sharp increases in Medicaid and food stamp enrollment. Because many programs already disregard major sources of government support, proposals to expand unconditional benefits while continuing to ignore them in eligibility calculations would further discourage work and expand participation in welfare programs.
January 10, 2024
Even Congress’s “Tax Extenders” Are About More Benefits
Congress’s long list of unfinished business for the new year includes “tax extender” legislation, which…