Opinion
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Ways and Means Chair Urges Treasury to Reconsider Corporate Inversion Rules
Opinion -budget-tax-news -The chair of the U.S. House Ways and Means Committee is calling on the Treasury Department to reconsider proposed regulations intended to discourage U.S. businesses from merging with overseas competitors. -
Big Tobacco Tax Hike Goes to Colorado Voters for Approval
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Colorado voters will vote on a proposition on the November ballot that would, if passed, impose a huge tax increase on cigarettes sold in the state. -
Missouri Voters to Consider Sales Tax Exemptions for Services
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Missouri voters will vote on a ballot question that, if approved in November, would prohibit state lawmakers from imposing any taxes on services. -
States Challenge Obama Administration’s ‘Overtime Rule’
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Attorneys general from 21 states are challenging a new regulation issued by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). -
California County Blocks Solar Project
Opinion -environment-climate-news -The San Bernardino, California County Board of Supervisors voted 3–2 to reject a controversial solar-energy facility on Federal lands in California’s scenic Mojave Desert. -
Taxicab Companies Sue Over New Massachusetts Uber Laws
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Taxicab companies in Boston, Massachusetts are suing Gov. Charlie Baker (R) and Massachusetts lawmakers over recently approved restrictions on transportation network companies (TNCs) such as Uber and Lyft. -
Trump and Clinton Both Wrong on Ethanol
Opinion -Editorial -Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump don't agree on much, but they see eye-to-eye on the Renewable Fuel Standard. Too bad they're both wrong. -
Is Whole Foods Channeling Tony Soprano?
Opinion -Editorial -The USDA "organic" designation has nothing to do with food safety, nutrition or quality. -
Getting Climate Priorities Right
Opinion -Editorial, Legacy Climate Change Weekly -Climate Change Weekly #228 -
New York’s Chief Partisan Persecutor: Democrat Attorney General Eric Schneiderman
Opinion -Editorial -If you want justice, equal protection before the law and prosecutorial humility - New York Democrat Attorney General Eric Schneiderman ain’t your guy. -
Proposed Article V Amendment Would Limit Federal Health Care Spending
Opinion -health-care-news -The proposal leading the push for an Article V constitutional convention would change health care spending as we know it. -
Bill to Create ESAs for Native American Students Passes Senate Committee
Opinion -school-reform-news -A U.S. Senate Committee has approved legislation that would give more Native American students access to education savings accounts (ESAs). -
Economic Ideas: The Institutions and Economics of the Middle Ages, Part 1
Opinion -Editorial -In attempting to understanding the ideas and institutions of the period of history that is usually called the “Middle Ages” it must be kept in mind that this covers a time frame that easily is divided up into smaller periods. -
State Laws Force Pregnant Mothers to Rely on Black Market to Find Midwives
Opinion -consumer-power-report -Consumer Power Report #521 -
Indiana Lawmaker’s Support for E-Cigarette Bill Questioned
Opinion -budget-tax-news -According to media reports in Indiana, a state legislator who voted to approve e-cigarette restrictions benefitting a single company is now an employee of that company. -
Trump’s Tax Reform Is The First Step To Booming Economic Recovery
Opinion -Editorial -Just as with the Reagan tax reforms, Trump’s lower rates on everyone would promote new jobs, rising wages and incomes, and long overdue booming recovery and growth. -
House Lawmakers Consider Bill to Roll Back Dodd-Frank Restrictions
Opinion -budget-tax-news -Lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives are considering a bill that would repeal some federal financial restrictions enacted six years ago in response to the 2008 financial crisis. -
Innovative Model, EMR Platform Help Doctors Center Attention on Patients
Opinion -health-care-news -Doctors who shirk insurers and federal electronic medical record regulations win big for their patients. -
University of Colorado Course Bans Climate Change Skeptics
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Three professors teaching a course titled “Medical Humanities in the Digital Age” at the University of Colorado-Colorado Springs, told students via e-mail man-made climate change is not open for debate. -
Public Support for Common Core Falls to New Low, Poll Shows
Opinion -school-reform-news -Public support for school reform remains high and support for the Common Core State Standards continues to drop, a new public opinion poll shows. -
Congressman Offers Online Sales Tax Proposal
Opinion -budget-tax-news -An intergovernmental state agency is criticizing a congressman’s draft proposal to create a federal framework for collecting and remitting sales taxes on online purchases made across state borders. -
Study Falsely Touted as Proof Pharma Buys Doctors with Meals
Opinion -health-care-news -Meals pharmaceutical companies give doctors may not be as influential as a recent study suggests. -
Lawsuit Targets ‘Climate Alarmism Enterprise’
Opinion -environment-climate-news -Mathematician and software engineer Leonid Goldstein is suing more than 40 environmental groups, green investment funds, and foundations who he says is a “climate alarmism enterprise,” committing fraud, racketeering and witness tampering. -
The Right of Parents to Choose Their Child’s Education
Opinion -Editorial -There is a growing divide within the education reform movement between the so-called technocrats and free-marketeers, causing confusion with parents and grassroots activists and making reform much more difficult to achieve.