DOLLARS AND SENSE ECONOMICS

IWF’s Dollars and Sense Economic project highlights the problems with costs of government overreach, including how government’s overspending impacts the economy and taxpayers and how programs that sound compassionate, such as extended unemployment benefits and generous welfare programs, can discourage work and ultimately harm those they are intended to help. IWF offers an alternative vision of how government can be scaled back, so that aid and intervention is targeted where it is really needed and a thriving private sector and civil society can emerge. IWF highlights ways that government could be streamlined (including reform of our entitlement programs) and how the tax code could be made fairer and less burdensome to encourage greater growth and innovation. IWF also explains how regulations are strangling the private sector, preventing job creation, and needlessly constricting Americans' private life.

Categories:  Budget & Spending,  the economy,  Energy,  Entitlement Programs (welfare, UI, Social Security, SSDI, etc),  Intellectual Property Rights,  Taxation, Technology

The Democratic Fight Against $15

July 16 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Good News: Americans Quitting Their Jobs at Record Rate

July 10 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Crumbs II: Pelosi Calls Strong Jobs Report "A Raw Deal"

July 6 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Some People Are Buying Houses without Saving for the Down Payment

July 3 2018
by Arrah Massimini

Millennial Monday: Stronger Job Market Helps Millennials Move Out of the Basement

June 25 2018
by Betsy Pearson

Majority of Americans Approve President Trump's Handling of the Economy for First Time

June 25 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Claims for Social Security Disability Benefits Are At a 15-Year Low

June 22 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Making Kids Programming Better Through Common-Sense Broadcast TV Reforms

June 22 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

How to Create Broad-Based Prosperity

June 20 2018
by Rachel DiCarlo Currie

D.C. Will Kill Tips with New Minimum Wage

June 19 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Optimism Among Small Business Owners Skyrockets Thanks to Tax Cuts

June 13 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Seattle Reverses Job-Killing Head Tax on Big Employers After Residents Speak Out

June 12 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Net Neutrality Ends Today. Here's Why It's Not the End of the World.

June 11 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

More Good News about the Unemployment Rate

June 7 2018
by Rachel DiCarlo Currie

A Populist Government After All

June 6 2018
by Rachel DiCarlo Currie

About that Alarming U.N. Report on Poverty in the U.S.

June 3 2018
by Charlotte Hays

The Benefits of a Tight Labor Market

June 1 2018
by Rachel DiCarlo Currie

May Jobs Report: Full Steam Ahead

June 1 2018
by Rachel DiCarlo Currie

Terrific Jobs Report: Headline Writers Blindsided

June 1 2018
by Charlotte Hays

A Euro Exit Strategy for Italy: No Planning Allowed?

May 31 2018
by Rachel DiCarlo Currie

John Cochrane vs. Larry Summers

May 30 2018
by Rachel DiCarlo Currie

Italian Elites to Voters: Drop Dead

May 29 2018
by Rachel DiCarlo Currie

NFL Finally Takes a Stand for the National Anthem

May 25 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Americans Report Doing Better Financially Under Year 1 of Trump

May 24 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Billionaire Michael Bloomberg Admits He Wants to Raise Taxes on the Poor

May 23 2018
by Ericka Andersen Sylvester

Consumers, Small Banks to Gain Relief from Bi-Partisan Roll Back of Dodd-Frank Banking Regulations

May 23 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

A DC City Councilman Calls New Taxes to Help Our Bloated Metro System "Exciting"

May 21 2018
by Charlotte Hays

3 Things to Know About the Senate Vote on Net Neutrality

May 17 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Seattle Times: Citizens Should Overturn the City Council's Hostile-to-Business Head Tax

May 17 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Seattle's Business 'Head Tax' Has Even Starbucks, Amazon in an Uproar

May 16 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Just What Kinds of Guaranteed Jobs Does Senator Sanders Envision?

May 1 2018
by Charlotte Hays

In This Winning Economy, Cities Pay Young People to Move There

May 1 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Here’s why stock buy-backs are a good thing

April 27 2018
by Mattie Duppler

Nancy Pelosi Chokes on "Crumbs" Comments

April 25 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Finland Ends Experiment with Universal Basic Income

April 25 2018
by Charlotte Hays

8 States Just Hit the Lowest Unemployment in Their History

April 24 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Job Corps: Failure with a Big Price Tag

April 23 2018
by Charlotte Hays

When Government Makes It Harder to Work, Fewer People Can Move Up the Ladder

April 19 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Oregon Public Employee's Pension: $76,000 . . . a Month

April 18 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Happy Tax Day 2017!

April 17 2018
by Hadley Heath

On Tax Day, Here's How the Federal Government Spends Every Dollar of Your Money

April 17 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Uber, Lyft Drivers Angry with Seattle City Council for Colluding with Taxis to Raise Rates

April 17 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

They're Back! Share of Adult Children Living at Home Highest in 75 Years

April 12 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

3 Quotes from Mark Zuckerberg's Senate Grilling that Should Concern You

April 11 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

Colorado’s Taxpayer Bill of Rights Should Be a Model for All States

April 10 2018
by Heather Madden

Equal Pay Day: There's a Lot of Hypocrisy Out There

April 10 2018
by Charlotte Hays

5 Drivers of the Pay Gap – They Are Not Gender Discrimination

April 10 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

How Many Americans Would Give Up Voting for a 10-Percent Pay Raise? It’s Surprising!

April 6 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka

When Tweets Aren't So Funny

April 2 2018
by Charlotte Hays

Tariffs: A New Bargaining Chip for Better Trade Deals?

March 28 2018
by Patrice Lee Onwuka