Rent, home prices, insurance premiums, and prescription drugs have outpaced paychecks for a generation. Young Americans feel it most, delaying homes, families, and futures because the basics cost too much.
Much of that cost is created by government itself: rules that block new housing, markets that shield insurers and drug companies from competition, and paperwork that adds expense to every visit to the doctor.
We are unapologetic capitalists. Free markets built the most prosperous country in history, and they should do the heavy lifting here too.
But crony capitalism is not the free market. When big corporations use lobbyists, rigged rules, and their size to crush competition and overcharge Americans, they are destroying the very market they claim to believe in. The carrot gets government out of the way. The stick keeps corporations from rigging the game.
