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Since 2009, almost half the #surcharges paid by customers for public safety communications—more than $1 billion—have been redirected to New York’s general fund. empirecenter.org/publications/t…

CBO forecasts cumulative deficits of $22 trillion in the coming decade. It is likely to be closer to $30 trillion. Pressing question: how recurring deficits will impact private investment by having an effect on national savings & the flow of foreign capital into the country?🧵

DOJ confirms another massive Obamacare fraud. A broker VP pled guilty in a $133M scheme exploiting Biden’s enhanced subsidies—falsifying incomes to trigger fully subsidized plans and rake in inflated commissions. This is just the tip of the iceberg. 🧵 justice.gov/opa/pr/executi…

Americans gave $557B to charity in 2023 (about $1,600 per person). Most saw no tax benefits, no deductions, and no rewards. Yet they gave anyway The welfare state may have crowded out civil society, but it hasn’t crushed it. Paul Mueller explores what that says about freedom

In Ohio and Massachusetts, 97% of public employees are exempt from Social Security from Thomas Savidge debtdispatch.substack.com/p/states-shoul…

The Promise of Abundance and the Overlooked Obstacle of Fiscal Policy theunseenandtheunsaid.com/p/the-promise-…

Whether it’s Walz cheering Tesla's stock price decline or pension funds using taxpayer dollars to push ESG, pushing political causes results in worse investment performance. | Thomas Savidge & Jon Miltimore trib.al/NrZRe7h

AIER's Thomas Savidge and Jon Miltimore take aim at political meddling in pensions, proposing to remove politics from pension systems and save taxpayers money by transitioning public employees to defined-contribution plans. Read their latest at National Review: nationalreview.com/2025/04/tim-wa…

We’re less than a week away from our virtual Salon with Dr. Samuel Gregg, where he will examine the first 100 days of the new administration. We look forward to seeing you at this free event! RSVP now: aier.org/event/the-firs…

NEW: I dive into the myths that cause Congress to wrongly support subsidies that supposedly benefit their constituents. Pork isn't politically salient, doesn't give a big economic boost, and has real costs. Link below.

Allowing states to opt out of Social Security is a serious idea worthy of discussion, explains Thomas Savidge. While implementation would be challenging, it is not impossible. What matters most is ensuring states avoid past mistakes by adopting meaningful guardrails that ensure

Whether it’s Walz cheering Tesla's stock price decline or pension funds using taxpayer dollars to push ESG, pushing political causes results in worse investment performance. | Thomas Savidge & Jon Miltimore trib.al/oWklRdc

To get federal budget back to a sustainable trajectory, we need to trim nearly $1.7 trillion, or about 8 percent, from baseline federal health program expenditures.

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Last month, a video was trending on social media showing a Canadian woman explaining that she had a 13-month wait for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) test to check for a brain tumor. Canadian health care is not free and it has two prices: the taxes Canadians pay for it and the

In her speech, Assistant Attorney General Gail Slater cites Oren Cass and Sohrab Ahmari to justify more aggressive antitrust enforcement, but they misdiagnose the real cause of the Rust Belt’s decline. It wasn’t free markets or consolidation that hollowed out American

Illinois took $14 billion in COVID aid, raised taxes 50%, and still faces $22 billion in deficits. The plan? Cultivate a pointlessly unhealthy obsession with the White House. illinoispolicy.org/vallas-pritzke…

Illinois pension math: 1️⃣pay in $333K 2️⃣take out $8.47M 3️⃣end up with $144B in pension debt Government unions found the greatest ROI in history—your tax dollars. illinoispolicy.org/top-illinois-p…

🧵 1/8 The last decade of U.S. antitrust policy has seen a populist tug-of-war: neo-Brandeisians on the left and national conservatives on the right. Both seek to re-politicize antitrust law, but neither offers a sustainable model for innovation, growth, or the rule of law.