Relevant and even prescient commentary on news, politics and the economy.

You searched for: label/cato institute

Cato Institute proposes fiscal responsibity Well – sort of. Chris Edwards has put forth “Downsizing the Federal Government” with $300 billion in proposed spending cuts by 2009. Highlights: Eliminating the…

Millennials like socialism — until they get jobs. Or until a pollster tells them that it would mean tax increases but doesn’t tell them, for example, that the tax increases would replace healthcare insurance premiums and out-of-pocket medical expenses. And doesn’t tell them that “more government services” means something other than, say, trash collection twice a week instead of once a week.

Okay, so the title of a Washington Post op-ed piece today by research fellow and director of polling at the Cato Institute Emily Ekins is “Millennials like socialism — until…