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  • April 10, 2024
    Blog
    Trump: "Kill FISA"
    Trump: “Kill FISA”
    Former President Trump weighed in very early this morning against FISA even being reauthorized.
    By Patrick G. Eddington
  • April 8, 2024
    Blog
    On FISA, What Is DoJ Hiding?
    On FISA, What Is DoJ Hiding?
    Episodes like these demonstrate why current federal officials cannot be trusted to protect the constitutional rights of Americans.
    By Patrick G. Eddington
  • April 1, 2024
    Blog
    Biden Hikes Corporate Tax Expenditures 92%
    Biden Hikes Corporate Tax Expenditures 92%
    Rather than pursuing low and equal tax rates for all businesses, Biden’s misguided approach is to impose punitive treatment on most businesses while handing out subsidies for the select few.
    By Chris Edwards
  • March 28, 2024
    Blog
    The Case Against Antitrust
    The threat of abusive public power is far larger than the threat of private market power.
    By Robert A. Levy
  • March 28, 2024
    Blog
    Who You Calling Far Right?
    Libertarians are not far right; true liberalism is the opposite of illiberalism on both left and right.
    By David Boaz
  • March 20, 2024
    Blog
    Affordable Housing: Subsidies Raise Costs
    Affordable Housing: Subsidies Raise Costs
    People in the industry know that government subsidies generate complexity and high costs. To me, the solution for affordable housing is local deregulation and property tax cuts for apartment buildings, not federal subsidies.
    By Chris Edwards
  • March 14, 2024
    Blog
    Medicaid Expansion Will Not Increase Mississippi’s Labor Force Participation Rate
    On February 28, 2024, Mississippi’s House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to approve the expansion of the Medicaid program to all adults earning less than 138 percent of the federal poverty line. Mississippi’s labor force participation rate is indeed very low. However, from 2018 to 2019, Arkansas enacted an almost identical policy to Mississippi’s proposed legislation. Arkansas’s work requirements did not meaningfully improve labor force participation and should serve as a lesson for Mississippi’s legislators.
    By Krit Chanwong and Marc Joffe
  • March 7, 2024
    Blog
    Fact-Check: Taxes on the Rich
    Fact-Check: Taxes on the Rich
    False claims about tax rates on high earners are remarkably persistent given the easy availability of the official data.
    By Chris Edwards
  • March 5, 2024
    Blog
    Efficient, Timely and Reliable: A Framework for Election Law in Nevada
    Efficient, Timely and Reliable: A Framework for Election Law in Nevada
    In a new paper for Nevada Policy on election reform, Cato scholar Walter Olson emphasizes speedier tabulation of results and reasonable efforts to calm public distrust, all without sacrificing the benefits of convenience and modernization in voting. 
    By Walter Olson
  • February 22, 2024
    Blog
    Cato Seeks Injunction To Obtain DOJ Internal FISA Audits
    Cato Seeks Injunction To Obtain DOJ Internal FISA Audits
    The Cato Institute has filed a motion for a preliminary injunction against the Department of Justice over a long-standing Cato Freedom of Information Act request seeking internal DOJ audits of the Section 702 program.
    By Patrick G. Eddington
  • February 20, 2024
    Blog
    Rating the Presidents
    Rating the Presidents
    Political scientists rate highly those presidents who govern in wartime (except George W. Bush) or expand the size, scope, and expense of the federal government. 
    By David Boaz
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