The 2024 edition of the annual report of the Social Security trustees was released on May 6, 2024, and its conclusions are sobering. If corrective action is much further delayed, continued solvency will be for […]
(This article first appeared Discourse magazine published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.) In December 2023, Gallup released the results of its latest survey of Americans’ expectations of Social Security. They show a […]
(Article first appeared in the July 25, 2023, edition of Discourse magazine published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University) 9th Law: When Americans express opposition to a policy, those in government will reconsider […]
7th Law: Political attacks often reveal more about the attacker than the attacked. Sometimes, politicians are deservedly on the receiving end of fierce criticism. No one has a right to public office, and those who […]
(Article first appeared in the July 25, 2023 edition of Discourse magazine published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University) 5th Law: The more sympathetic the constituency, the worse the policy. This is one […]
(Article first appeared in the July 25, 2023 edition of Discourse magazine published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University) 4th Law: Expertise and honesty do not confer objectivity. Political exchanges are often rife […]
(Article first appeared in the July 25, 2023, edition of Discourse magazine published by the Mercatus Center at George Mason University) 2nd Law: The political party opposing the president is more skeptical of military intervention. […]
(Editor’s note from Frank Hill: Chuck Blahous is a friend of mine with whom I worked on federal budget and entitlement issues starting in 1994. He served in the Bush 43 White House as an […]
The agreement negotiated by President Joe Biden and Speaker Kevin McCarthy to temporarily suspend the federal debt limit and establish caps on appropriated spending has passed through Congress. The legislation averts a U.S. government default […]
The barbs exchanged at the State of the Union address remind us of the ease with which each party feels it can blame the other for the worsening of federal indebtedness year after year, Congress […]
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