Policy Alternatives

Taxes, retirement, and fin" rel="nofollow">inancial policies are some of the most controversial areas of policy development. There are a variety of opin" rel="nofollow">inions, data sources, and expert reports out there on each of these areas. Therefore, along with all proposed policy, it is important that we can evaluate each policy. In this week's lesson, we discussed the three primary and five ancillary evaluative criteria that Kraft considers essential in" rel="nofollow">in analyzin" rel="nofollow">ing policies. So let's put this in" rel="nofollow">information in" rel="nofollow">into practice. choose one of the articles from either the taxes tab: (http://www.ncpa.org/taxes/) or the retirement tab (http://www.ncpa.org/retirement). For your forum post: (1) Summarize the key poin" rel="nofollow">ints made within" rel="nofollow">in the article. (2) Now, select at least three evaluative criteria from this week's lesson to analyze the poin" rel="nofollow">ints made in" rel="nofollow">in the article. For example, did the author address the equity of the policy and if so, what did they say? If they didn't address it, what do you thin" rel="nofollow">ink the author would have said about the missin" rel="nofollow">ing evaluative criteria? (3) Analyze the policy alternatives (eg, in" rel="nofollow">includin" rel="nofollow">ing a liberal thin" rel="nofollow">ink tank) for your selected policy topic/article.