…issues with recruiting a workforce. A poll by the libertarian leaning Cato Institute from last April found that while 80 percent of Americans think the country would be better off if more…

…account for half of all firearm deaths, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (healthdata.org) On gun violence, the United States is an outlier, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (healthdata.org)…

…Deficits Commission into a bind. One which I will outline below the fold. A central tenet of the Cato endorsed “Leninist Strategy” for Social Security Reform outlined in Butler and…

…Cato Project on Social Security Privatization (now Cato Project on Social Security Choice) and undertook a joint reframing exercise on Social Security that in one incarnation was labeled the ‘Leninist…

…person of Michael Cannon at Cato admit the fundamental truth: successful government social programs fatally undercut future political success for the Right. Cannon: Blocking Obama’s Health Plan is Key to…

…Bush administration. At any rate, Bruce was at Cato yesterday (along with Andrew Sullivan), talking about the Bush administration. Dana Milbank does some amusing reporting from the forum: “We did…

Jacob Weisberg has an interesting discussion of how the GOP has failed to live up to its 1995 promise to downsize the Federal government. He points to a Cato paper…

…Barro’s 7/3/2000 Business Week op-ed as well as Gary Becker’s 2/22/2005 Wall Street Journal op-ed. Yet, the Cato-Club for Growth crowd continues to argue for a free lunch without ever…

…fact-checking skills. Well, he got my title right but he forgot to read the first sentence of my post. Notice I challenged readers to see if Cato provided any evidence…

…Niskanen, the chairman of Cato Institute who advised former President Ronald Reagan, called it “most misleading.” …”He (Bush) did not identify any cuts. He didn’t demonstrate how in any way…