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What Second Amendment?

What to Know: Democratic presidential candidates are trying to one-up each other on gun control proposals.

The TPPF Take: The ever-more drastic gun control measures being proposed won’t have the desired effect.

“Everyone seems to have an idea of what policy interventions can stop troubling shooting events from happening again,” says TPPF’s Derek Cohen. “But many of the proposals that have been floated recently would directly infringe on the right to bear arms and self-defense as explicitly enumerated in the United States Constitution.”

Getting Noticed

What to Know: DPC Healthcare, a direct primary care facility, has been named Small Business of the Year by the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce.

The TPPF Take: Direct primary care is a not-so-new model that’s getting some attention.

“Direct primary care re-establishes the relationship between physicians and their patients—without the middlemen of insurance companies, benefits managers and government officials,” says TPPF’s David Balat. “To solve our nation’s health care delivery problems, we need new ideas—not the kind of government takeover we would see with Medicare-for-All.”

It’s Back

What to Know: A basically bad idea, the universal basic income, is back—with a California proposal to simply hand all adults $1,000 per month.

The TPPF Take: The UBI won’t fix poverty. Opportunity will.

“UBI is based on the failed minimum wage, which has been responsible for keeping millions—especially young African American men— unemployed and thus unable to learn the skills they need to get higher wage jobs,” says TPPF’s Bill Peacock. “To improve low-income opportunities, cities and states should follow Texas’ successful example of giving workers and employers more freedom by eliminating minimum wages and reducing taxes and regulations that make job creation more expensive.”