Federal Workers Should Not Have to Pay for the Social Security Tax Cuts
Congress is set to extend the 2011 Social Security tax reduction to the end of 2012. Three cheers for that. Social Security taxes are some of the most unfair in...
Labor
Outrageous Bonuses for Federal Workers
Members of the US House of Representatives -- Republicans and Democrats alike -- seems to think that federal workers are overpaid. They voted 309-117 to freeze the salaries of federal...
Job Churning, Job Creation, and the Reregulation of America’s Realonomy
Where do jobs come from? Pro-business groups regularly repeat the mantra that jobs are created by entrepreneurs, strong-charging world-changers who fight endless government interference to build businesses from scratch. But...
The Realonomy versus the Wealthy 1%
According to the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis, the economy is growing again. In fact, it's been growing since July 2009. The economy grew in the second half of 2009,...