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New IRS Estimate of the Tax Gap
Chris Edwards The federal “tax gap” is the amount of taxes owed but not paid, essentially the amount of cheating…
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Friday Feature: Edupreneur Support Program
Colleen Hroncich When I think about education, the Bob Dylan song “The Times They Are a‑Changin’” often comes to mind. In…
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Ballot Measures: A Preview
Walter Olson Voters will go to the polls soon in states and municipalities to decide ballot issues of significance for…
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Google will shield AI users from copyright challenges, within limits
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images / Benj Edwards) On Thursday, Google announced that it plans to defend users of its generative…
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Higher Interest Rates Have Ramifications for Public Pension Systems
Marc Joffe While the recent rise in interest rates creates headaches for governments issuing bonds (and for the taxpayers who…
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Reforming Medicaid Subsidies
Chris Edwards and Krit Chanwong Federal spending and deficits are at dangerously high levels, and interest costs on government borrowing…
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Is Tort Reform the Way to Constrain Healthcare Costs?
Jeffrey Miron This article appeared on Substack on October 13, 2023. The Wall Street Journal recently praised Nikki Haley for advocating…
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Biggest DDoSes of all time generated by protocol 0-day in HTTP/2
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson / Getty) In August and September, threat actors unleashed the biggest distributed denial-of-service attacks in Internet…
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Illiberalism Continues to Plague Chinese Economy
Clark Packard Since the late 1970s, when Chinese president Deng Xiaoping initiated some market‐oriented liberalization, the country has been on…
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Employee Retention Credit Shows Folly of Tax Code Subsidies
Adam N. Michel The Employee Retention Tax Credit (ERTC) is a refundable payroll tax credit—equivalent to a cash payment of up to…
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