The Unseen and The Unsaid
The Mercatus Center, Veronique de Rugy, Vera Kozakar, Jack Salmon, Samson McCune, Joshua RowleyThe Unseen and The Unsaid is a newsletter about the unseen impacts of government interventions that are frequently left unsaid
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Eliminating the Payroll Tax Cap Undermines Social Security's Earned-Benefit Principle
Bernie Moreno and Elizabeth Warren have a New York Times op-ed proposing to eliminate the cap on Social Security payroll taxes, not the benefit it funds. Jack Salmon has made the case for why this proposal is not the solution they make it s...
Eliminating the Payroll Tax Cap Still Leaves a Hole
One of the most common claims in debates over Social Security is that the program’s financing problems could be solved simply by eliminating the payroll tax cap and applying Social Security taxes to all earnings. Now Republican Senator Bern...
We Were Right About The 2024 Recession
From 2023 to 2025, there was a lot of talk of a recession. Americans could tell that something was off, but couldn’t prove it, so to speak. This rhetoric became so prevalent that when surveyed, 59% of people thought that we were in a recess...
California’s Latest Tax Proposal Puts Innovation at Risk
California says its new billionaire tax is about billionaires.
But buried in the text of a proposed constitutional amendment is something far more consequential: a tax structure that could make it harder for ordinary employees to take equi...
The Methodology Laundering of Minimum Wage Research
A question economist have been exploring for decades is whether we actually know what minimum wage increases do to employment. But an equally important question is whether the methods economists have increasingly relied upon to answer that...
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The Mercatus Center at George Mason University is the world’s premier university source for market-oriented ideas
George Gibbs Chair in Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center
thinking and writing about financial regulation. hopefully it's worth reading.
Jack Salmon is a Research Fellow and Gibbs Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, where he focuses on economic and fiscal policy, with an emphasis on federal budgets, taxation, economic growth, and institutional analysis.
Joshua Rowley is a Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center with interests in fiscal and economic policy, international trade, and avoiding a fiscal catastrophe. He was previously an economist for the US House Budget Committee.
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