The Fiscal Reality Check
Joshua Rauh, Gregory Kearney, Benjamin Jaros, Daniel Heil, Matheus Cosso, Lincoln GerstnerTaxes, Spending, and the Bottom Line
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Much of the rhetoric surrounding the Medicaid eligibility requirements in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) has been hyperbolic, casting the act’s work requirements as a draconian assault on the social safety net.
Last Spring, prior...
Misdiagnosing California’s Fiscal Crisis
Supporters of the California wealth tax are telling voters that Washington just blew a “$19 billion per year budget hole” in California’s Medicaid program, known as Medi-Cal, and that their new tax on billionaires is the necessary response....
California's Anchor Firms Are Hiring. Just Not in California.
As California’s proposed wealth tax moves closer to the ballot, the debate has settled into a familiar exchange.
Supporters ask why billionaires shouldn’t pay more. Opponents reply that billionaires can leave. Defenders of the tax then po...
How Federal Debt Raises Your Mortgage Payments
I’m on my way to Washington to testify in a House Oversight Committee roundtable on the national debt. So much ink has been spilled on this topic. Why do so few people care? It seems abstract, far away.
But there are reasons to care about...
A California Ballot Collision: Wealth Tax vs. Savings Protections
Days after the healthcare union behind the proposed 5% wealth tax on California billionaires announced it had gathered enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot, backers of several additional measures made similar announcements....
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Stanford Finance Professor, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Co-Founder of the Global Liberty Institute
Researcher at the Hoover Institution, Contributor to Liberty Lens.
Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and Economist interested in Public Finance, Taxation, and Economic History.
I'm a policy fellow at the Hoover Institution, researching health care, entitlement reform, and the federal budget.
Research Analyst at the Hoover Institution focusing on political economy and public economics. Supports fiscal, innovation, and regulatory research, and conducts independent research on special-interest politics, modeling rent-selling processes.
Student-athlete at Sacred Heart Prep(co 2027) Learning fast, but a long way to go.
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