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Democrats' Social Plan Seeks to Expand Government-Run Healthcare
04 November 2021
In an interview with CFIF, Dr. Kathleen Brown, a dermatologist and health care policy activist, discusses Democrats' social plan, its potential impact on healthcare services to patients, and how it would result in the biggest expansion of government interference in health care in decades.
Work Must Be the Basis for Welfare
28 October 2021
Leslie Ford, Visiting Fellow in Domestic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, discusses the negative impact of workless safety-net benefits, why President Biden needs to remember the history of the bipartisan law requiring work as a basis for welfare, and how the child tax credit should not be a monthly child allowance.
Iran’s Nuclear Program and Regional Ambitions
21 October 2021
Tzvi Kahn, Research Fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, discusses Iran’s request to have $10 billion in assets unfrozen as a goodwill gesture before Tehran resumes negotiations on its nuclear program, and why it’s a bad idea.
Government Broadband, Inflation and More
14 October 2021
Timothy Lee, CFIF's Senior Vice President for Legal and Public Affairs, discusses the outrageous push by President Biden and some in Congress to subsidize government-owned broadband networks, and a look at how inflation is outpacing American workers’ paycheck gains.
High Court Returns: Hot Button Issues on the Docket
05 October 2021
Ilya Shapiro, a Vice President at the Cato Institute and Director at the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies, discusses the opening of the U.S. Supreme Court’s October 2021 term, what the Court’s first in-person (since March 2020) arguments looked like, and some of the hot button cases on the docket thus far, including gun rights, school vouchers and a First Amendment sign case, and more.
Death and Double Taxes
30 September 2021
Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment, discusses President Biden’s devastating “double” death tax proposal, its potential impact on family businesses and jobs, and why a capital gains tax above 28% would actually lose the government revenue.
Biden Wants to Empower the IRS to Snoop on Your Financial Transactions
24 September 2021
Isabelle Morales, Policy Communications Specialist at Americans for Tax Reform, discusses President Biden’s proposal to empower the IRS to monitor all transactions of $600 or more in and out of private bank accounts, including Venmo, PayPal and CashApp accounts, and the privacy concerns surrounding the proposal.
Biden's Poll Numbers
17 September 2021
William J. Conti, Partner in the Washington, D.C., Office of Baker & Hostetler, discusses President Biden's and Vice President Kamala Harris' poll numbers, and what they might mean for midterm and 2024 elections.
Should the U.S. Have Stayed in Afghanistan?
09 September 2021
Quin Hillyer, columnist at the Washington Examiner, discusses why the United States did not have to pull out of Afghanistan, how the polls dictated President Biden’s decision to ignore the Afghanistan Study Group, a congressionally created commission, and what this decision may mean in the future.
The Liberal Proposal to Permanently Extend Obamacare Subsidies
27 August 2021
Sally Pipes, President, CEO and Thomas W. Smith Fellow in Health Care Policy at the Pacific Research Institute, discusses the immense burden on taxpayers of the Democratic effort to expand government subsidies in healthcare, why the subsidies have been a poorly targeted failure, and why Medicare expansion is another disastrous idea under discussion.
The Consequences of a Hasty Withdrawal from Afghanistan
20 August 2021
Dakota L. Wood, Senior Research Fellow for Defense Programs at The Heritage Foundation and former U.S. Marine who served two decades, including during Operation Enduring Freedom, discusses the implications of the precipitous withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, what it means for our allies and Afghan women, how it is perceived by other terror groups and China, and how President Biden ignored the advice of military experts.
Joint Employer Rule: A Handout to Trial Lawyers and Big Labor Unions
13 August 2021
Timothy Lee, Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, explains the pitfalls of the Joint Employer Rule, how it expands the field of liability and introduces chaos, and why Congress should pass the proposed Save Local Business Act to preserve the existing common-sense labor law and protect employers.
Education: Standards for Civics and U.S. History
06 August 2021
Amber Northern, Ph.D., Senior Vice President for Research at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, discusses the quality of K-12 civics teachings, the policy fixes needed, and the recently released report, "The State of the State Standards for Civics and U.S. History in 2021."
Broadband: America's Greatest Infrastructure Success Story
30 July 2021
Phil Kerpen, President of American Commitment, discusses how America's private broadband infrastructure should serve as a model to bring more private management and investment to other types of infrastructure, and how the Biden Administration's idea of massively funding a government takeover of broadband will lead to unsustainable, unreliable and costly services while disincentivizing private investment and innovation.
Compulsory Donor Disclosure vs. Associational Privacy
23 July 2021
Lee Goodman, Partner in the Washington, D.C., law office of Wiley, discusses the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling regarding the facial challenge to California's compulsory disclosure requirement of the names and other personal information of donors to non-profit organizations, broad First Amendment protection applied in the case, and what the 6-3 decision may mean in other states with similar requirements.
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