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A heated debate is once again under way in Congress over the tax treatment of electronic commerce and the Internet Tax Freedom Act of 1997.

This report--an addendum to a 2009 document--notes climate change impacts by sector:  water resources, energy supply, transportation, agriculture, ecosystems, human health, and society.

The political momentum behind state-level preschool programs is tremendous, but existing proposals are often flawed and expensive.

Many arguments have been made against subsidies for energy production, and against subsidies in general.

The minimum complaint with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is that defects in environmental legislation denounced by economists for decades continue to produce bad results.

Despite surviving a number of threats, President Obama’s health care law remains harmful, unstable, and unpopular.

Taylor and Van Doren equate corn ethanol to a religion, arguing that it, "...is more a religion than a reasoned proposition." They go on to explain how production of corn ethanol really only

Government transparency is a widely agreed upon goal, but progress on achieving it has been very limited.

This article explores the impact of tax policy on economic growth in the states within the framework of an endogenous growth model.

The federal government has imposed a minimum wage since 1938, and nearly all the states impose their own minimum wages. These laws prevent employers from paying wages below a mandated level.