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  • August 23, 2024
    Blog
    State Tax Cuts: Cheers and Jeers
    State Tax Cuts: Cheers and Jeers
    … full tax load. In legislatures, there is always a battle between the general interest and special interests. In state tax policy, we’ve been getting a lot of both in recent years. Read more in my new op-ed at …
    By Chris Edwards
  • August 21, 2024
    The Dispatch
    The Campaign to Kill (Or, At Least, Really Annoy) All the Serious Economists
    The Campaign to Kill (Or, At Least, Really Annoy) All the Serious Economists
    … avoid getting into the economic policy weeds, including the hilariously understated fact that “Mr. Trump is hardly a paragon of policy” himself. Even Worse Specifics Given the policy details the candidates are providing, however, it might be better for my …
    By Scott Lincicome
  • August 20, 2024
    Power Problems
    The Pentagon’s Budgetary Time Bomb
    The Pentagon’s Budgetary Time Bomb
    … such fiascos are now in the making, with unsustainable budgetary implications, unless crucial reforms to U.S. defense and foreign policy are made. Show Notes Dan Grazier, Julia Gledhill, Geoff Wilson, “Current Defense Plans Require Unsustainable Future Spending”, Stimson Center …
    Featuring Dan Grazier, Julia Gledhill, and John Glaser
  • August 19, 2024
    Blog
    Is a State AI Patchwork Next? AI Legislation at a State Level in 2024
    Is a State AI Patchwork Next? AI Legislation at a State Level in 2024
    Policymakers should not seek to regulate merely because of fear or uncertainty but only when there is a true need to prevent harm not already addressed. Such policy should be narrowly tailored to address the harm while also considering important trade-offs to other values, such as speech and innovation.
    By Jennifer Huddleston
  • August 15, 2024
    Blog
    Five Questions All Crypto Crime Bills Must Answer
    Five Questions All Crypto Crime Bills Must Answer
    To fight bad actors without undermining Americans’ financial privacy and freedom to innovate, policymakers must ask five questions before advancing any new illicit finance rules for DeFi. Proposals that seek to undo DeFi’s core innovation—intermediary-free finance—should be nonstarters.
    By Jennifer J. Schulp and Jack Solowey
  • August 15, 2024
    Cato Daily Podcast
    Candidates Should Stop Pushing Special Tax Carveouts
    Candidates Should Stop Pushing Special Tax Carveouts
    Presidential candidates Harris and Trump both seem amenable to special tax benefits for their favored groups of voters, be they tipped workers or recipients of Social Security benefits. Is that good tax policy? Adam Michel explains.
    Featuring Adam N. Michel and Caleb O. Brown
  • August 13, 2024
    Cato Daily Podcast
    Americans Seem Fine with Protectionism as Long as It's Costless
    Americans Seem Fine with Protectionism as Long as It’s Costless
    New polling from the Cato Institute asks Americans to weigh their preferences for Buy American policies against the very real likelihood that protectionism will hit them in their pocketbooks. Scott Lincicome and Emily Ekins detail the results.
    Featuring Scott Lincicome, Emily Ekins, and Caleb O. Brown
  • August 6, 2024
    Blog
    CrowdStrike Is the Latest Example of the "Brussels Effect"
    CrowdStrike Is the Latest Example of the “Brussels Effect”
    Some American regulators like the Federal Trade Commission are actively working with EU bureaucrats to regulate US companies through such policies rather than recognizing that this approach hampers American innovation, the economy, and consumers.
    By Jennifer Huddleston
  • August 2, 2024
    The War on Prices
    Prices in the Presidential Race
    Prices in the Presidential Race
    Politicians knowingly make essentials like food more expensive than they need to be under a free trade policy.
    By Ryan Bourne and Sophia Bagley
  • August 2, 2024
    American Diplomacy
    Has NATO Enlargement Enhanced US National Security?
    Has NATO Enlargement Enhanced US National Security?
    The prospective future enlargement of the alliance to Ukraine – a remarkably popular policy option in Washington – is not in the United States’ interest.
    By Joshua Shifrinson
  • August 1, 2024
    Blog
    The State of Student Loan Forgiveness: August 2024
    Mass student loan forgiveness is terrible policy, but that hasn’t stopped the Biden administration from trying to forge ahead. While the Supreme Court overturned the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan, every few weeks, the Biden administration announces another batch of loans that have been forgiven. Here’s a rundown of the administration’s student loan forgiveness plans and actions, which I’ll update monthly.
    By Andrew Gillen
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