Outside the Beltway

Greg Mankiw has a plan for cutting the deficit.

We won’t be able to solve our fiscal problems until the American people grow up. So far, there are no signs of that happening.

The American public still has a totally unrealistic view of what it will take to get the Federal Government’s fiscal house in order.

There appears to be bipartisan support for repealing one of the most egregious tax rules in last year’s Affordable Care Act

Faced with mounting debt, the lame duck Illinois legislature rushed through a massive tax hike in the wee hours this morning.

Defying logic, New York City taxis are least available when they’re most needed: as people are getting off work.

President Obama’s comments about the “relatively modest pay” earned by Robert Gibbs and other high level government workers may be a bit tone deaf. But they’re right.

The cost/benefit ratio of tablet computers seems to be a bit…. lacking.

Freshman Members of Congress are threatening to block a vote to raise the debt ceiling that Congress will have to take by this Spring. They’d be irresponsible if they did so.

Wealthy Manhattanites are clamoring for a new status symbol: their own washer and dryer!

Streets in New York City like this one on Staten Island went unplowed for days thanks to a work slowdown by sanitation workers, which raises the question of what Public Sector Unions should be allowed to do.

So, Kodak is suing Shutterfly because it claims to have invented the idea of putting pictures on the Internet.

The Federal Communications Commission is using a statute from the 1930s to try to regulate the technology of the 21st Century. It’s a mistake.

The Atlantic made a $1.8 million profit, mostly from Andrew Sullivan’s blog.

Humorist David Sedaris says that he can get $500 a night in his tip jar “for candy” but the same people would probably give a beggar outside 75 cents.

Minor fluctuation in tax rates is not the most significant thing happening in the world’s largest economy.

Some DC based hipsters want to know why America doesn’t have good pubs like in London. It turns out, they’re everywhere.

Many Congressional Democrats both campaign for a higher minimum wage and employ interns at less than the existing minimum wage, many for no pay at all.