December 11, 2012
This morning Isabel Sawhill from the Brookings Institution and I debated the merits of domestic spending cuts for dealing with the fiscal cliff on C-SPAN’s Washington Journal. For those who are interested, you can watch the video (about 45 minutes) on the C-SPAN website here.
December 6, 2012
I have a post today on the U.S. News and World Report’s Debate Club where I argue that the Medicare eligibility age should, like the Social Security retirement age, be raised by two years to help bring the entitlement program’s long-term costs under control. The best idea is to bring the cost discipline of a functioning...
December 4, 2012
My EPPC colleague Yuval Levin and I have a piece in The Weekly Standard on how congressional Republicans can appeal to middle class voters by taking a stand against increasing Social Security and Medicare payroll taxes. For households squarely in the middle class, income taxes are less of a burden today than payroll taxes, because a...
December 4, 2012
This morning, I was interviewed by WNYC (public radio in New York City) on the fiscal cliff negotiations, focusing especially on the latest Republican offer. For those who might be interested, the full interview (about 20 minutes) can be heard here.
November 27, 2012
Today at National Review Online I have a column on how congressional Republicans should negotiate with the White House over the impending fiscal cliff, and why reforming entitlements, including Obamacare, needs to be high on their agenda. The hardest part of these negotiations will be the battle over entitlement reform. The bottom line...
November 19, 2012
My Ethics and Public Policy Center colleague Yuval Levin and I co-authored an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal this weekend on what state governments can do to resist the implementation of Obamacare. Talk of the law’s inevitability is intended to pressure these governors into implementing it on the administration’s...
November 9, 2012
I have a post on the Health Affairs blog today about what the results of the election will mean for the policy debates over American health care. No one should underestimate the difficulty of bridging the deep divide between the parties on health care, which is mainly a disagreement over how best to slow the pace of rising costs. ...
November 2, 2012
Michael D. Scott and I co-authored a column in e21 today on how important it will be for the next administration to face up to the challenge of fixing our federal government’s broken finances, and why Mitt Romney is the man for the job. Job one for the next president must be to fix the U.S. government’s broken financial...
October 19, 2012
My AEI colleague Tom Miller and I have an article at e21 today on how Obamacare will lead to a massive redistribution of wealth away from the middle class. In broad terms, the amount of redistribution is easily ascertained form the aggregate expenditures and taxes contained in ObamaCare. According to the...
October 17, 2012
I have a column today at National Review Online on the flaws of the latest “studies” of the Ryan-Wyden Medicare plan. The problem is, under Ryan-Wyden, no current seniors would be placed into a premium-support program. They would all be exempt, as would everyone age 55 and older but not yet on Medicare. So this hypothetical...