Commentary By Stephen Moore

Stop the Health Insurers' Raid on the Treasury By Stephen Moore

        No one likes insurance companies -- trying to get them to pay a claim is like wrenching a bone out of a dog's clenched teeth -- and now we have another reason to hold them in low regard. The biggest advocate for blowing another $1 trillion hole in the federal budget is the health insurance lobby.

        The giant insurance companies -- including UnitedHealthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield and Humana are leading what Capitol Hill sources describe as "an unprecedented lobbying blitz to restore hundreds of billions in taxpayer-funded Obamacare and Medicare Advantage subsidies."

The Case Against Jerome Powell By Stephen Moore

   It's hard to believe that a couple years ago Time magazine considered naming Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell as their Person of the Year. He may well have won, if it hadn't been for someone named Taylor Swift.

Another Tax Revolt May Be Right Around the Corner By Stephen Moore

        Anyone old enough to have lived through the mayhem and economic decline of the 1970s probably will recall the tax cut heard round the world. That was the famous California ballot initiative Proposition 13, which slashed property taxes by more than 25% and then screwed a tight cap on future rate increases.

Stop the IRS's Stealth $700 Billion Tax Increase By Stephen Moore

        President Donald Trump has done an admirable job at defanging the IRS, which was converted into a weaponized agency targeting Democrats' political enemies.

Trump's Share-the-Wealth Retirement Plan Will Help All Americans By Stephen Moore

        The Elizabeth Warrens of the world have long complained about how the rules in Washington and on Wall Street are rigged in favor of the rich.

Europe Is Dying -- Are We Next? By Stephen Moore

        Let's start with a very simple truism: You can't have prosperity without people.

'Drill, Baby, Drill' Is Working By Stephen Moore

        Well, so much for the vaunted renewable energy "transition" to save the planet. This was always a fable. We get 80% of our energy from fossil fuels, and with Donald Trump now in the White House, that ratio is rising, not falling.

As Many as 1 Million Kids Will Have School Choice This Year By Stephen Moore

        This is the dawning of the age of school choice.

How to Make Sure the US Dominates 21st-Century Telecommunications By Stephen Moore

   Trump's announcement and executive order to ensure that the U.S. dominates the artificial intelligence revolution was a welcome America First policy directive. That mostly means keeping the government out of the way.

Desperately Seeking a Pro-Growth Democrat By Stephen Moore

   The most recent Wall Street Journal political poll shows that Democrats have swerved into a deep ditch.

The End of Immortality in Washington By Stephen Moore

Over the last several decades, you could count on your fingers (and maybe a few toes) the number of government programs that have been canceled -- no matter how obsolete, inefficient or wasteful they were, and despite the fact that, in some rare cases, their missions were accomplished.

Trump Should Index the Capital Gains Tax for Inflation By Stephen Moore

   President Donald Trump should follow up on his historic "big, beautiful" tax bill with an extra booster shot for the economy by immediately indexing the capital gains taxes for inflation.

The Biggest Conservative Victory in 30 Years By Stephen Moore

Everyone knows that the "big, beautiful" tax bill signed into law on the Fourth of July lowers tax burdens for families and businesses. It also averts a $4 trillion tax increase starting next year. That's enough reason to heartily celebrate.

For America to Win the AI Race, Keep Government's Hands Off By Stephen Moore

At the birth of the internet age in the early 1990s, the U.S. and Europe took opposite approaches to advancing this new economy-changing technology.

Congress Should Just Say No to a Remittance Tax By Stephen Moore

The House-passed "big, beautiful" tax bill is a tremendous achievement and a giant spark plug for growth. The bill extends all the Trump tax cuts of 2017, thus heading off a $4 trillion tax INCREASE next year. It expands health savings accounts, includes expensing of major capital and research expenditures by businesses, allows more money for school choice, and includes "no tax on tips" and no tax on overtime pay. And that's just for starters.

Why the CBO Almost Always Gets It Wrong By Stephen Moore

These days it seems that a mysterious group called "the CBO" rules the world, or at least Washington, D.C. Unfortunately, it's not very good at predicting things, and its bad calls can lead to bad policy results.

Trump's Own Regulators Declare War on Coal and Its Investors By Stephen Moore

In one of the most convoluted lawsuits of all time, a cabal of state attorneys general and the Federal Trade Commission are now accusing financial firms BlackRock, State Street and Vanguard of monopolistic behavior. The complaint asserts that these firms bought coal stocks and then helped impose radical environmental restrictions on the companies they partially own so that coal output would fall and the price of coal would rise. The lawsuit alleges that this strategy generated "supra-competitive" profits for those investors.

Biden Forgives Student Loans and ... Behold, Defaults Skyrocket By Stephen Moore

Here's an economics lesson that belongs in the textbooks.

Cut Taxes on Made-in-America Products By Stephen Moore

As the late senator from Washington state, Warren Magnuson, who served for more than 30 years in Congress, once said, "All that each industry seeks is a fair advantage over its rivals." Wilt Chamberlain had a fair advantage on the basketball court because he stood 7-foot-1. It allowed him to score 100 points in a single game.

Yes, Let's Attract the Best and the Brightest By Stephen Moore

Situated on the outskirts of Sacramento is California's largest master-planned community, McClellan Park. It has homes, offices, restaurants, a hotel and even a 2-mile-long runway that serves jets. But 30 years ago, the location was a starkly different story: an Air Force base that had just been shuttered, costing 11,600 jobs.