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New CF&P Video Explains that Vouchers, not Bureaucratic Rationing, Are Best Way to Fix Bankrupt Medicare System
A new video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) explains that giving vouchers to future seniors is the best way to solve Medicare’s fiscal crisis. Narrated by Dan Mitchell, a Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, the video is entitled, “Saving Medicare: Free Market Reforms Are Better than Bureaucratic Rationing.”
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Just How Many Jobs Can Firing One Bureaucrat Create?
I mentioned the other day a claim from CEI that regulatory burdens cost the economy nearly $2 trillion in 2008. The Phoenix Center also recently produced a policy bulletin examining the costs of the regulatory state (Hat-tip: Big Government). In quantifying the relationship between government spending and economic growth based upon 50 years of data, […]
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New CF&P Video Spotlights Risky IRS Scheme that Would Discourage Foreign Investment and Harm U.S. Banks by Putting Foreign Tax Law above American Tax Law
A new video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) exposes a dangerous IRS proposal that would have disturbing ramifications for the US economy. Entitled, “The IRS Running Amok: Bureaucrats Want to Force Americans Banks to Put Foreign Tax Law Above U.S. Tax Law,” the video details how this rogue regulation would drive foreign capital from U.S. markets, harm American financial institutions, and endanger human rights.
read more...CF&P Video Condemns Federal Reserve, Discusses Ways to Fix Monetary Policy
A new video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) explains the origin of central banking and sets the stage for a discussion of alternatives. Entitled, “Time to End the Fed? The Origin of Central Banking and Possible Alternatives,” the video notes that the dollar has lost 95 percent of its value since America’s central bank was created, explains the Federal Reserve’s penchant for causing economic instability, and speculates about different approaches that would lead to better monetary policy.
read more...CF&P Announces Winners of 2010 Free Market Video Contest
The Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) has selected the winners of its first annual free market video contest. The contest seeks to identify, encourage, and reward the “new media” policy entrepreneurs with the most compelling messages for liberty.
read more...CF&P Video Uses International Examples to Show that Limiting the Growth of Government Spending Is the Best Fiscal Policy
A new video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) examines how foreign countries have successfully solved fiscal problems by restraining the growth of government spending. Entitled, “Spending Restraint, Part II: Lessons from Canada, Ireland, Slovakia, and New Zealand,” the mini-documentary is a follow-up to CF&P’s last video, which demonstrated how Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton successfully curtailed the burden of government.
read more...To Fix the Budget, Bring Back Reagan…or Even Clinton
President Obama unveiled his fiscal year 2012 budget today, and there’s good news and bad news. The good news is that there’s no major initiative such as the so-called stimulus scheme or the government-run healthcare proposal. The bad news, though, is that government is far too big and Obama’s budget does nothing to address this […]
read more...New CF&P Video Shows that Reagan and Clinton Are Role Models for Restraining Domestic Spending
A new video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) demonstrates how it is possible to curtail the burden of government. Entitled,”Spending Restraint, Part I: Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton,” the mini-documentary highlights the examples provided by two recent Presidents – both a Republican and a Democrat – to show that good fiscal policy is feasible.
read more...Four Reasons Why Big Government Is Bad Government
A new video from the Center for Freedom and Prosperity gives four reasons why big government is bad fiscal policy. I particularly like the explanation of how government spending undermines growth by diverting labor and capital from the productive sector of the economy. Some cynics, though, say that it is futile to make arguments for […]
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New CF&P Video Explains How Personal Savings Accounts Would Save Social Security
A new video released today by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation (CF&P) exposes Social Security’s unsustainable finances and points out that policies to address the giant unfunded liability, such as tax increases and benefit cuts, would make the program an even worse deal for workers.
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