Medi-Cal is a trap, not a safety net

The Orange County Register: NCPA Senior Fellow John Graham discusses the budget deficit and the high marginal income tax imposed by Medi-Cal, and builds a case for replacing them with a fixed dollar federal tax, in a commentary in The Orange County Register.

Health Insurance Across State Lines

The Hill: According to NCPA Senior Fellow John R. Graham’s commentary at The Hill, allowing health insurers to sell health coverage across state lines has no effect on insurance premiums – but remains popular as a Republican sound bite.

The Mortgage Meltdown

The 2008 financial crisis was one of the most severe economic breakdowns in the history of the world.2 The crisis was a classic financial bubble with all the classic attributes thereof: greed, …

How Dodd-Frank Harms Main Street

The financial crisis of 2007-2008 was a shock to the American economy. The federal regulatory response of 2009-2010 was equally shocking to the financial system. The reforms enshrined in the Wall Street …

Principles of the Flat Tax

Today’s graduated income tax system is a morass of deductions, exemptions, allowances, credits and other loopholes: Every year U.S. taxpayers pay an amount equal to 30 percent of total income …

Refugee Crisis

Fox & Friends: NCPA President/CEO Allen West discusses extensive military and veteran funding cuts, while pointing out numerous refugee resettlement grants and welfare benefits in an interview with Steve Doocy on Fox & Friends.