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New health care law actually will hurt the sick, says health policy analyst at Cato Institute
A health policies expert for a Washington, D.C.-based Lbertarian think tank is taking issue with a Twitter post by a left-leaning justice organization that cheered the veto-overriding passage of a new state law he warns will amount to "government-imposed rationing."
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Cato: LMP Services v. City of Chicago
May a city both require certain business owners to forego their Fourth Amendment rights and also enforce regulations specifically designed to advantage competing businesses in a related industry?
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Mounting tax burden called no match for soaring pension debt in Illinois
Illinois ranks third in the nation in unfunded pension liability despite being saddled with some of the most stifling tax burdens in the country.
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Minimum wage hike not a solution to Illinois' woes, policy pro argues
Raising the minimum wage will make matters worse in Illinois, not better, Mike Tanner, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, told the Chicago City Wire recently.
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Some say replace social-welfare system with 'basic income' model
With the welfare system falling apart, it may be time to look at the possibility of a basic income for every American, a concept that has been championed by well-known economists and political scientists of the past and present including Milton Friedman, Friedrich Hayek and Charles Murray.