NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 1-26-2010

National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest Tuesday, January 26, 2010 There are more than 500,000 subscribers that receive the Daily Policy Digest. Help us hit 1 million by Forwarding to a Friend. Yes, I want to support Daily Policy Digest and contribute today! Taxes AN ECONOMIC TIME BOMB Even if Congress does nothing, tax hikes will hit hard a year from now, says Pete du Pont, Chairman of the National Center for Policy Analysis and a former Governor of Delaware... OPINION JOURNAL Health Issues MARRIAGE PENALTY IN HEALTH BILLS COULD COST MARRIED COUPLES THOUSANDS The marriage penalty contained in either of the two health care reform bills could affect millions of Americans if employers push their employees into health exchange plans in lieu of providing more costly employer-based insurance themselves, says Devon Herrick, a Senior Fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis... HEARTLAND INSTITUTE International Issues GIVERS AND MISERS The United States is either the top donor or among the largest to most of the multilateral operations now focused on Haiti, says columnist Claudia Rosett... FORBES/HERITAGE FOUNDATION Economic Issues PARAMETRIC ESTIMATIONS OF THE WORLD DISTRIBUTION OF INCOME World poverty is disappearing faster than previously thought, according to economists Maxim Pinkovskiy and Xavier Sala-i-Martin... VOX Unions PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNIONS ARE SINKING CALIFORNIA Public employee unions drive costs up and fight to block spending cuts, says Steven Greenhut, director of the Pacific Research Institute's journalism center... WALL STREET JOURNAL Social Issues THE KIDS WILL BE ALRIGHT The United States boasts a fertility rate 50 percent higher than that of Russia, Germany or Japan and well above that of China, Italy, Singapore, North Korea and virtually all of eastern Europe, says Joel Kotkin, an adjunct fellow at the Legatum Institute... WALL STREET JOURNAL About the DPD NCPA's Daily Policy Digest brings you the most wide-ranging public policy findings five times a week at no charge. DPD knows your time is valuable, so we find and summarize the most topical public policy issues from today's newspapers, magazines, websites, government reports, scholarly journals and think tanks. Visit the DPD Archives Visit the NCPA website The John Goodman Health Blog A new Consumer-Directed Health Care Blog. Forward this to a Friend Subscribe to the Daily Policy Digest. Unsubscribe: If you received this email in error, you can unsubscribe here. NCPA Events David M. Walker - Friday, January 29, 2010 David M. Walker, President and CEO, Peter G. Peterson Foundation and former Comptroller of the United States, will discuss his new book Comeback America: Turning the Country Around and Restoring Fiscal Responsibility Mitt Romney - Thursday, March 18, 2010 Mitt Romney, former Governor of Massachusetts and former Republican Candidate for President of the United States, will discuss his new book No Apology: The Case for American Greatness Connect with the NCPA on: Please do not reply to this email address as it is not monitored. For a list of NCPA departments and corresponding email addresses, please visit www.ncpa.org/contact. We depend on the financial support of individuals. We need your help to continue our work. Join the NCPA today! Dallas Headquarters 12770 Coit Rd., Suite 800 Dallas, TX 75251-1339 Phone: (972) 386-6272 Fax: (972) 386-0924 Copyright 2003-2010 National Center for Policy Analysis - All rights reserved