Hunt Lawrence and Daniel J. Flynn

President Trump says the economy needs a tax cut. The national debt screams that it needs more revenue. Can the federal government slash rates and pay down the debt? Spending at 23 percent of GDP and revenues at 19 percent…

President Trump and congressional Republicans unveiled a tax-reform plan this week. After whiffing on an Obamacare repeal and replace, the GOP, which looks fairly united here and, after all, owns the Oval Office and majorities in both houses, enjoys better-than-even…

In health care reform, as in health care itself, discovering a cure becomes difficult if one misdiagnoses the disease. Republicans failed (again) in their repeal of Obamacare because they imagined the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act as the problem…

For the last seven years, six months, and four days, Republicans broadcast their raison d’être as the repeal of Obamacare. They possess just over three days to fulfill that promise before the Federal Trade Commission shuts down the party as…

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell vows to bring the Lindsey Graham-Bill Cassidy sponsored Obamacare repeal to the Senate floor next week. This represents the last, best chance to repeal Obamacare. Take those two words — last, best — literally. The deadline…

Justice Louis Brandeis noted that “a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” This notion of states as the laboratories…

One hears junkie talk in the words of Washington. Whether jonesing for a fix of chemicals or tax dollars, addicts rarely make sense. President Trump describes the debt ceiling as “really not necessary.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who does…

As the national debt approached $20 trillion last week, the staggering number called for the brakes. Instead, Washington stepped on the gas. “For many years, people have been talking about getting rid of debt ceiling all together, and there are…

Education Savings Accounts: The New Frontier in School Choice (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) takes a fresh, perhaps first, look (in bound form, at least) at 21st-century education unbound from 19th-century bureaucracy. Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) rest on a couple of…

The movement to provide choice in schools increasingly, and perhaps predictably, offers more choices. If vouchers represented an advance on charter schools, Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) appear as another evolutionary step. Just five states make ESAs available, and Nevada, alone…