Opinion
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Congress Considers De Facto Nationwide Red-Light Camera Ban
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Congress is considering a bill that would provide states with an overwhelming incentive to get rid of red-light traffic cameras. -
Oregon Drastically Expands Free School Lunch Program
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -Oregon is dramatically increasing the number of students from middle-income families fed at school at no cost to their parents. -
High Housing Costs Drive Exodus to Exurbs
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Smaller cities in the United States are growing much more quickly than large ones, reversing a trend earlier in the 2010-2019 decade. -
Trump Administration Proposes More Flexible Apprenticeship Rules
Opinion -budget-tax-news, school-reform-news -The U.S. Department of Labor proposes a rule to expand access to apprenticeships. -
New York Adopts State ‘Green New Deal’
Opinion -environment-climate-news -New York state has adopted what Gov. Andrew Cuomo has dubbed the Green New Deal of New York, the most aggressive carbon-emissions-reduction goals in the nation. -
Stiglitz Pens Manifesto for More Progressive-Socialist Government
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Review of People, Power and Profits: Progressive Capitalism for an Age of Discontent by Joseph E. Stiglitz -
Right to Try Legislation Expands Patient Freedom in North Carolina
Opinion -News -A new law expanding patient access to medical treatments in North Carolina will go into effect on December 1, having received unanimous approval in both chambers of the North Carolina General Assembly and the July 1 signing by Governor Roy Cooper. -
A Paternalistic Government Solution to Payday Loan ‘Debt Traps’
Opinion -Editorial -Government paternalism consists not only of giving people things they didn’t pay for, but also in preventing people from making decisions that, in the benevolent judgment of superintending bureaucrats, aren’t in their best interest. -
Country Time Offers ‘Legal Ade’ to Entrepreneurial Children Thwarted by Regulations
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Operating a business generally requires a permit, and food-sellers are subject to the requirements of state and local health codes. -
The Case for a Coercive Green New Deal?
Opinion -Editorial -Social and economic crises, real and imagined, often seem to bring out the most wrongheaded thinking in matters of government policy. -
Trade With China Benefits American Consumers
Opinion -Editorial -A new paper forthcoming in the journal American Economic Review: Insights estimates the effect of trade with China on American consumers and shows us what we stand to lose if we don't end the trade war. -
IRS Roadmap Illustrates Complexity of Federal Tax System
Opinion -budget-tax-news -“Subway map” illustrates the tangled taxpaying process, from getting answers to tax law questions up through audits, appeals, and litigation -
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Heartland Weekly: Climate Conference Speakers Defend Climate Realism
Opinion -heartland-weekly, News -Week of August 5, 2019 -
California Slow-Walks Compensation for Farmers, Ranchers
Opinion -environment-climate-news -California landowners who had their land seized years ago through eminent domain for the state’s high-speed rail project are still waiting to be paid for the expenses owed them, for land the state might never even get around to using. -
Trump Deregulation Will Save $3,100 Per Household, CEA Reports
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The goal of the Trump regulatory agenda is “to reduce costly regulation, while protecting workers, public health, safety, and the environment,” the report states. -
Big Government, Shrinking Economy: The Case for Small Government
Opinion -budget-tax-news -From 1960 to 1973, the U.S. economy grew by an average of 4.3 percent per year with a government share of 30 percent of GDP. -
Conservative Groups Urge Wisconsin Legislature to Spare Wedding Barns from Alcohol Regulation
Opinion -budget-tax-news -They urge lawmakers in Madison to forgo “using the heavy hand of government to regulate wedding barns out of business." -
Ohio Court Blocks State’s Restrictions on Red-Light Cameras
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Under the law, cities using automated traffic-enforcement cameras are required to report to the state any revenues generated by the fines from the cameras. -
Arizona Becomes First State to Recognize Others’ Occupational Licenses Without Requiring Reciprocity
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The new law covers a wide array of professions, including health care, dentistry, construction, real estate, cosmetology, teaching, accounting, engineering, and embalming. -
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Heartland Weekly: Kamala Harris’ Health Care Heresy
Opinion -heartland-weekly, Editorial -Week of July 29, 2019 -
Price Transparency Is the Best Answer to Calls for Single-Payer
Opinion -health-care-news, Editorial -For generations, the prices hospitals charge patients with private insurance have been shrouded in secrecy. -
Legislative Pulse: Defending Constituents’ Climate Interests in Oregon
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Oregon state Sen. Alan Olsen (R-Canby) says Senate Republicans walked out of the Senate to prevent a vote on climate legislation in which they were allowed to have not input, that would have harmed their constituents interests. -
Medicaid Spending Gets the Spotlight During Ohio Budget Hearings
Opinion -health-care-news, News -The issue of Medicaid reform was in the spotlight at a hearing before the Ohio Senate Finance Committee during state budget discussions. -
California Legislature Considers Giving Strikers Unemployment Benefits
Opinion -A proposed law would allow striking workers to collect unemployment benefits even though they have jobs at which they are not working.
