Category: Other NCPA Experts

Washington Times: NCPA Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara and Lewis Uhler discuss how the Republicans should address the government shutdown.

Forbes: Laurence Kotlikoff, senior fellow at the NCPA, discusses the US fiscal gap and why the CBO long-term budget outlook is wrong.

The American Spectator: NCPA Senior Fellow Peter Ferrara writes about the political struggles Republicans have won since the 2010 mid-term elections and the recommendations of Steve Moore for future policy.

Investors.com: NCPA Senior Fellow Peter Ferrera predicts that the Affordable Care Act will increase the number of uninsured rather than achieve universal healthcare coverage.

Austin American Statesman: Giving vouchers to parents seeking to enroll their kids in private schools could spur the creation of new education models, says NCPA Senior Fellow John Merrifield.

Forbes.com – NCPA Senior Fellow Bill Conerly discusses the economic benefits of businesses owning their own real estate in a recent Forbes commentary.

The Wall Street Journal — NCPA Senior Fellow and former Medicare Trustee Thomas R. Saving says it’s not accurate for the Administration to threaten that the Social Security ‘coffers’ will be empty by August third if Congress fails to act by then on the debt ceiling.

Townhall.com – Pat Boone and Jim Martin explain why Medicare cannot survive in its current form.

The Hill – Barry Asmus writes on the future of the United States' economic competitiveness.

Over the next two decades, 78 million Americans will quit working, quit paying into the Social Security system and start drawing benefits, straining the resources of our public pension system.

If conservatives regain power at the federal level, there is a single, revolutionary idea they should implement: the taxpayer savings account (TSA). A TSA would be established for every taxpayer, overseen by the government, into which future tax payments would be deposited. The TSA would be a substitute for the current withholding and quarterly estimated tax payment system.

NCPA Policy Chairman, Michael Whalen explains in a Washington Times editorial that mark-to-market accounting rules will hurt small business loans and ruin economic recovery.

In the Daily Caller, Michael Whalen said that President Obama is an extreme conservative in the Old-World sense, and that the president believes he is a progressive, but he is exactly the opposite.

What's going to happen when the money runs out for Medicare? A recently released report by the program's trustees found that within seven years Medicare taxes will fall short of Medicare expenses by more than 45%. What's more, Medicare and Social Security combined are on track to eat up the entire federal budget.

A new year often brings a new agenda to the nation's capital, as accomplished items are removed and new issues and problems arise. It is also the time to evaluate whether to continue pressing for issues that haven't gained as much traction as had been hoped.

Seventy seven million baby boomers are about ready to go from the paying-in window to the pay-me-now window; 77 million going from pushing strollers to using walkers. That flood of newly-retired persons will nearly double the number of people collecting benefits, putting unbearable strains on the system.

During the recent President’s Day recess, many Members of Congress held town hall meetings and other events to try to explain why Social Security reform was at the top of the national agenda. To no one’s surprise, several Members were met by protestors and other activists dispatched from a cadre of opposition groups.