Author: Timothy P. Carney Washington Examiner
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For parents, ‘big, beautiful bill’ is pretty drab
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The One Big Beautiful Bill Act did a lot of good for a lot of people, but parents, as a group, came home empty-handed. The bill did increase the child tax credit from $2,000 to $2,200 per year and set it to index for inflation going forward. That’s an improvement on current policy, but measured…
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Big Brother on your wrist
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“My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.” The speaker was Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The occasion was his testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. “Wearing a wearable” is a goofy phrase in itself, and to the uninitiated, it’s almost nonsense.…

