Dems effort to fix the EITC for COVID-19 has an indefensible structure.

The EITC is ineffective and inefficient. It's time to end it.

How are our strange mix of relief efforts playing out?

Medicare for Kids is fairly cheap and easy to finance.

Joe Biden's proposal to reduce the eligibility age to 60 is misguided.

Transfer payments for all and government administration of payroll.

Job guarantee advocates are broadly dishonest and stupid.

Some thoughts on how to respond to this recession in particular.

Proponents of paid family leave need to fix this glaring problem now.

Zakaria fakes his way through another essay with predictable results.

Warren's plan relies upon complicated and pointless user fees.

Fading from the race, Warren tries to rehabilitate her bad health plan.

For a fraction of the military budget, the US could provide free public child care for all.

How does a $9,800 premium and $12,700 out-of-pocket maximum sound?

A massive individual mandate and delusional auto-enrollment.

Some easy ways to make existing programs simpler and more universal.

Bennet's proposal has more than halved in value in two years.

Every college funding plan uses a mix of universal and means-tested programs.

Another possibility is he is stupid, though that'd be offensive to say.

The regressive tax is neither good policy nor apparently good messaging.