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…
November 21, 2023
Defining Poverty Up
Thirty years ago, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D., N.Y.) wrote a seminal essay titled…
October 25, 2023
Dispelling Myths About The Child Tax Credit
Every culture has its famous myths, such as Bigfoot and the Loch Ness monster, and…
September 29, 2023
Up To $135 Billion In Pandemic Unemployment Fraud – And Still Counting
Last week, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) added a startling new figure to the ever-growing estimates of abuse…
August 31, 2023
Where Are The Energy Stamps, Joe?
As summer temperatures rise , the Biden administration has pushed its green energy agenda hard — all…
July 26, 2023
How Worker Benefits Turn into Welfare
The disparity between what the federal government collects in taxes and what it spends was…
June 30, 2023
Democrats Call Biden’s Economy “Savage” in Attempt to Revive Child Tax Credit
With unemployment near record lows and President Joe Biden running for reelection, some Democrats recently…