For nine years HUD did not produce the improper-payment estimates federal law requires for its two largest rental-assistance programs. In September its inspector general did: at least $2.7 billion a year. HUD disputes part of the finding.
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I watched the White House Corona Virus briefing for September 10, 2020 knowing the next day is September 11, 2020, a day of remembrance of the 3000 lives lost in Osama Bin Laden’s attack on the World Trade Center. I couldn’t help but be completely ashamed of Jonathan Karl of ABC News. Karl is like […]
Read the link to this paragraph through and you’ll see the biggest reason Wikipedia needs to be rejected, ignored, and if possible never used. I strongly suggest everyone review their use of Wikipedia for any reference that treats it as a form of encyclopedia as Wikipedia is one of the best examples of how bias […]
U.S. stocks have not fallen this dramatically during the month of December since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Stocks down more than 1,000 points from Thursday’s close.
“System Change, Not Climate Change” is the demand being made by the Party for Socialism and Liberation in regard to Saturday’s Peoples Climate March. “Only socialism can solve the climate crisis,” they say. It appears that the organizers of the march agree, since the old Moscow-funded Communist Party is listed as one of the official […]
Stephen J. Entin | Tax Foundation We have modeled the economic effects of seven tax plans released by seven of the Republican Presidential candidates. (links please) This blog provides a convenient side-by-side comparison of the GDP and federal revenue estimates in the seven plans. The numbers are for the ten years of the budget window, […]
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American Migration in 2015
released an annual study tracking the inbound and outbound American migration of states based on its client’s requests. For the third year, Oregon led the country with most inbound moves. Sixty-nine percent of moving requests for that state brought new individuals to Oregon. The results are part of a longer trend. New York has experienced […]
Scott Greenberg | Tax Foundation Earlier today, the House of Representatives passed a 233-page tax bill (the PATH Act), which includes over $620 billion in tax reductions for families and businesses. The provisions are a mixed bag: some are principled, sound tax policy, while others are giveaways to narrow interests. Notably, the bill renews all […]
who are suing the Obama administration over their own right not to include artificial contraception as part of their health insurance plan, which is mandated by Obamacare regulations. Catholic teaching views the use of artificial contraception as sinful. The connection between his comments to the president and his visit with the Little Sisters was apparent. […]
Alan Cole | Tax Foundation In the past year, Tax Foundation has conducted detailed analysis of tax plans from a half dozen presidential candidates, and it has further analyzed the public statements of every candidate in the race in order to keep track of how the tax debate is shaping up so far. Tonight’s Republican […]
Thorsten Polleit | MISES Waiting for Godot is a play written by the Irish novelist Samuel B. Beckett in the late 1940s in which two characters, Vladimir and Estragon, keep waiting endlessly and in vain for the coming of someone named Godot. The storyline bears some resemblance to the Federal Reserve’s talk about raising interest […]
Alan Cole | Tax Foundation Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump released his tax plan on Monday, and we released our analysis on Tuesday. When we analyze tax plans, we do it to help guide an accurate conversation about the revenue and distributional effects of the substantive proposals put forward by candidates. To that end, I […]