Scott Lincicome

1 week ago | washingtonpost.com | Scott Lincicome

Republicans can’t pay for their tax cuts with fantasy revenue sources (washingtonpost.com) Republicans can’t pay for their tax cuts with fantasy revenue sources By Scott Lincicome 2025052610450000 In the spring of 2025, Washington is again engaged in a favorite bipartisan pastime: magical thinking.

2 weeks ago | thedispatch.com | Scott Lincicome

A little more than two years ago, Capitolism first looked with skepticism at claims that artificial intelligence would quickly put millions of Americans out of work and lead to heightened U.S. unemployment. Even today, with American unemployment still historically low despite far more and more advanced AI technologies, the possibility of mass joblessness continues to generate angst.

2 weeks ago | homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Scott Lincicome

U.S. MANUFACTURINGBusting ‘Manufacturing Jobs’ MythsPublished 17 May 2025A nostalgia-soaked return to the 1950s industrial workforce is neither preferable nor possible. Promises to use blanket tariffs to reengineer an industrial workforce of our parents’ distant memories are laughably out of touch. A longstanding goal of American politicians on the left and the right—including and especially the last two U.S. presidents—is to boost not just American manufacturing but American manufacturing jobs.

3 weeks ago | cato.org | Scott Lincicome

One of the difficulties in writing an almost-weekly newsletter is that topics you want to cover, but aren’t necessarily BREAKING NEWS, can often fall by the wayside as newsier priorities emerge. (Incessant U.S. tariff stuff has obviously compounded this issue for Capitolism.) California’s high-speed rail system has long fallen into this category, as its problems are both well-known and well-covered (and the butt of libertarian jokes everywhere).

3 weeks ago | thedispatch.com | Scott Lincicome

One of the difficulties in writing an almost-weekly newsletter is that topics you want to cover, but aren’t necessarily BREAKING NEWS, can often fall by the wayside as newsier priorities emerge. (Incessant U.S. tariff stuff has obviously compounded this issue for Capitolism.) California’s high-speed rail system has long fallen into this category, as its problems are both well-known and well-covered (and the butt of libertarian jokes everywhere).