From: Capitol Hub on Mon, Nov 29 2010 5:25 PM

Politicians and journalists who fixate on consumer spending are putting the cart before the horse. Consumer spending generally is a consequence of growth, not the cause of growth. This Center for Freedom and Prosperity video helps explain how to achieve more prosperity by looking at the differen...

From: Capitol Hub on Mon, Nov 08 2010 10:53 PM

This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation mini-documentary debunks White House pro-tax propaganda with a point-by-point rebuttal of a video narrated by Austan Goolsbee of Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers. www.freedomandprosperity.org

From: Capitol Hub on Tue, Sep 21 2010 10:12 PM

The capital gains tax is a perverse form of double taxation that should be abolished, but this bad tax is especially damaging because taxpayers are taxed on gains that are solely the result of inflation. This video explains how taxpayers could be protected by indexing the capital gains tax so th...

From: Capitol Hub on Mon, Aug 02 2010 8:25 AM

American taxpayers finance nearly one-fourth of the budget for the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, an international bureaucracy that routinely advocates for more government - including more taxes and spending in the United States. In just the past couple of yea...

From: Capitol Hub on Mon, Jul 12 2010 7:06 AM

Government programs and intervention were making a mess of the healthcare system, even before Obamacare was enacted. Repealing Obamacare is a good idea and will prevent a bad situation from becoming worse. This CF&P Foundation video explains, however, that repeal is just the first step if we wan...

From: Capitol Hub on Tue, Jun 29 2010 6:11 AM

Government spending can promote economic growth if money is used for core “public goods” such as rule of law and property rights. But the burden of government spending in the United States and other industrialized nations is far higher than needed to finance such activities. Citing scholarly ...

From: Capitol Hub on Mon, Jun 28 2010 6:09 AM

Government spending can promote economic growth if money is used for core “public goods” such as rule of law and property rights. But the burden of government spending in the United States and other industrialized nations is far higher than needed to finance such activities. Citing scholarly ...

From: Capitol Hub on Tue, Jun 01 2010 4:34 AM

America has too many bureaucrats and they are dramatically overpaid. This mini-documentary uses government data to show how federal, state, and local governments are in fiscal trouble in part because of excessive pay for a bloated civil service. www.freedomandprosperity.org

From: Capitol Hub on Mon, May 10 2010 6:16 AM

Huge budget deficits and record levels of national debt are getting a lot of attention, but this video explains that unfunded liabilities for entitlement programs are America’s real red-ink challenge. More important, this CF&P mini-documentary reveals that deficits and debt are symptoms of the...

From: Capitol Hub on Tue, Apr 27 2010 4:59 PM

The correct capital gains tax rate is zero because there should be no double taxation of income that is saved and invested. This is why all pro-growth tax reform plans, such as the flat tax and national sales tax, eliminate the capital gains tax. Unfortunately, the President wants to boost the o...

From: Capitol Hub on Mon, Apr 12 2010 2:58 PM

The tax system is a complicated nightmare that forces taxpayers to devote ever-larger amounts of time, money, energy, and other resources in hopes of complying with the internal revenue code and avoiding IRS persecution. This CF&P Foundation video shows that this corrupt mess is the result of 97...

From: Capitol Hub on Mon, Mar 29 2010 12:21 PM

This Center for Freedom and Prosperity video shows how the flat tax would benefit families and businesses, and also explains how this simple and fair system would boost economic growth and eliminate the special-interest corruption of the internal revenue code. www.freedomandprosperity.org

From: Capitol Hub on Mon, Mar 08 2010 9:42 PM

Sweden is a powerful example of the importance of public policy. The Nordic nation became rich between 1870 and 1970 when government was very small, but then began to stagnate as welfare state policies were implemented in the 1970s and 1980s. The CF&P Foundation video explains that Sweden is now...

From: Capitol Hub on Mon, Feb 22 2010 6:09 PM

This Center for Freedom and Prosperity video examines anti-money laundering laws and finds that they are expensive and intrusive. These costs might be acceptable if the result was less crime, but this mini-documentary reveals that anti-money laundering policies are ineffective. As a former Reaga...

From: Capitol Hub on Tue, Feb 09 2010 4:08 PM

Competition promotes innovation and results in higher quality and lower costs. Government-run schools are a tragic example, by contrast, of why monopolies generate bad results. This video uses the example of school choice to explain why competition is a better approach. www.freedomandprosperity.org

From: Capitol Hub on Mon, Jan 25 2010 3:00 AM

Labor Department numbers show that the Obama Administrationâ??s $787 billion â??stimulusâ? was a flop. Instead of holding the unemployment rate at 8 percent or below, the jobless rate soared to 10 percent. Now there is discussion of second so-called stimulus, which politicians are calling a â??...

From: Capitol Hub on Mon, Jan 11 2010 2:25 PM

This CF&P Foundation’s Economics 101 video discusses the Moral Hazard, which occurs when bad choices are subsidized. This often happens when government intervention lets people take risks while having little or no skin in the game. Housing policies, for instance, subsidized mortgages, thus enabl...

From: Capitol Hub on Tue, Dec 15 2009 2:15 PM

Huge deficits and skyrocketing debt levels are creating considerable worry. This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video explains that that government borrowing is excessive - and will get worse in coming decades. But this mini-documentary explains that deficits and debt are merely the...

From: Capitol Hub on Tue, Nov 10 2009 2:01 AM

This CF&P Foundation video explains why healthcare proposals in Washington will result in bloated government and higher deficits. This mini-documentary exposes the pervasive inaccuracy of congressional forecasts and succinctly lists 12 reasons why Obamacare will be a budget buster. For more infor...

From: Capitol Hub on Tue, Nov 03 2009 2:00 AM

In this CF&P Foundation video, Eline van den Broek explains that government interference is driving up healthcare costs in America and warns that European style health "reform" will make the situation even worse. Based on what has happened in Europe, she explains that universal health c...