By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – April 14, 2025 Six in 10 able-bodied adults on the healthcare program have no earned income. Exhibit A is Medicaid, the fast-growing entitlement that now spends more than $850 billion a year while delivering subpar healthcare for the poor. The left and the press are trying to intimidate the GOP from addressing the...

America’s annual rituals and observances include days we usually celebrate together (July Fourth, Memorial Day, Veterans Day), or as members of special groups (Passover, Easter and Christmas).

By: Don Feder – washingtontimes.com – April 13, 2025 Whenever you see a demonstration, you need to ask two questions: Who is behind it, and what do they really want? In the case of anti-DOGE protests — 1,300 in one weekend this month — the driving force is the spending interests: The Democratic Party, teachers unions and a variety of...

A trade war hurts America too but China is especially vulnerable, writes Bob Davis. Does China have some not-so-secret weapons that will help it outlast the U.S. in the trade war?

By: Merrill Matthews. wsj.com – April 7, 2025 Allowing one-time, taxable IRA withdrawals would produce the billions in revenue Republicans are looking for. One of the problems Congress sought to fix in 2017 was the repatriation of U.S. multinational funds sitting in overseas bank accounts. At the time, U.S. multinationals paid the taxes due in the country where they operated,...

Some experts say Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs, which extended even to remote islands, were meant to cut China from the global supply chain with whatever means necessary.

President Donald Trump has predicted that his tariffs could raise as much as $6 trillion over the next decade in federal tax collections. These include up to 104% tariffs on China, plus the combination of reciprocal tariffs — we charge them whatever they charge us.  

President Trump has imposed the largest tax increase since 1982 through his tariffs, which will cost U.S. taxpayers $258.4 billion this year alone and $2.9 trillion over a decade, damaging the Repu…

By: Karl Rove – wsj.com – April 9, 2025 This chaos has been bad for everyone. Can the master negotiator now turn it around? Common sense prevailed Wednesday when President Trump announced he’d pause tariffs on most countries for 90 days. It’s good for America and his own political standing that he’s decided to become a dealmaker. He’s certainly got...

Let me say, up front, that I do not know if Trump’s tariffs will accomplish his purposes or not.  Tariffs are common in human history.  Some tariffs, in some places, and at certain times, have had some benefits to a country’s economy.