Slobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia, Vaclav Klaus of the Czech Republic and Leonid Kuchma of the Ukraine. What a difference a nation's leader can make. All three countries struggled for years under communist rule, but only two have made the transition toward free elections, free press and free markets. What's the difference? Their leaders.
It's been said politics in the '90s is like cotton candy. A lot of spin, a little bit of sugar and if you eat too much you get sick. This is not true, however, when it comes to the politics of Social Security reform. It's a sugar-free zone.
Unwise government policies are largely responsible for the fact that the number of Americans without health insurance is 43 million and rising. Unwise government policies also are responsible for the fact that people who have health insurance are turning over an ever-larger share of their health care dollars to managed care bureaucracies that limit patient choices and sometimes give providers perverse incentives to deny care.
The National Center for Policy Analysis is proposing a system of refundable tax credits to give every American access to health insurance.
Despite numerous reports on the pace of urban growth, urban land remains a very small part of overall land use.
The National Center for Policy Analysis announced today that an episode of the nationally syndicated program DebatesDebates, which was sponsored by the NCPA, will begin airing nationally today.
One of the main criticisms of allowing individuals to invest a portion of their payroll tax dollars into private savings accounts for Social Security has been that the cost for administering such a program would be too high.
The National Center for Policy Analysis today unveiled an Internet calculator that enables people, to estimate how much they will pay in Social Security taxes, what their monthly benefit will be and how much retirement income they would have if their Social Security taxes had been invested in stocks and bonds.
As the nation is stunned by another tragedy in our nation's schools and grieves for the loss of innocent lives, two questions immediately come to mind: Why did this happen and what can be done to stop this from happening again?
What do Bolivia, Brazoria County, Texas, and Philip Morris have in common? A tobacco liability lawsuit, of course.
As an alternative to the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, many reform plans would allow individuals to invest a portion of their payroll tax dollars in private investment accounts. Critics claim the costs of administering such accounts would be as high as 20 percent. Is this criticism valid?
Suppose you're just turning 65 and you want to make sure that you have prescription drug coverage in addition to Medicare. You have four possibilities…
It is a great honor for me to be asked to speak in the NCPA Hatton W. Sumners Distinguished Lecture Series. I have been following the NCPA activities and publications for some time and I am glad to say here that I learned a lot by reading them. The more difficult it is for me now to find something innovative, important and relevant to discuss here.
Just in time for taxpaying season, an official report says that the government isn't quite sure what it does with all that money it collects because it doesn't keep very good books. Of one thing, however, the report is certain: "the U.S. government's most important financial resource [is] its ability to tax and regulate."
Coming to Dallas as his country openly debates its new role in the NATO alliance and the propriety of the NATO campaign against its European neighbor Yugoslavia, Parliamentary head Vaclav Klaus will speak to a luncheon sponsored by the National Center for Policy Analysis.
Only about 5 percent of our land is developed, and three-quarters of the population lives on 3.5 percent of the land. But many people are frustrated with the traffic jams they associate with urban sprawl.
Never go to the grocery store when you're really hungry; you'll find yourself spending a whole lot more than you planned. Similarly, Congress should never address tax issues when the public coffers are empty, and for the same reason: it will find itself spending a whole lot more than it planned.
Studies have shown that criminals fear armed citizens far more than police. Their fear is reasonable since nearly 3,000 criminals are lawfully killed each year by armed civilians – more than three times the number killed by the police.