Opinion
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The Most Important Obamacare Case You’ve Never Heard Of
Opinion -While the nation eagerly awaits the Supreme Court’s ruling in King v. Burwell, a case brought by an unknown Pennsylvania tax collector has quietly made its way to the U.S. -
West Virginia Requires Legislative Approval State Power Plant Regulations
Opinion -With Democrat Gov. Earl Tomblin’s signature, West Virginia joined Pennsylvania in requiring the state legislature approve of any state-developed carbon-dioxide reduction plan before it is submitted to the U.S. -
Assurant Health Falls Victim to Obamacare’s Sweeping Regulations
Opinion -It’s a tough time to be a small insurance company. In 2010, the year President Barack Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA), better known as Obamacare, Assurant Health (AH) had a net income of approximately $54 million. -
Chipotle Backs Off GMO-free Claim
Opinion -Chipotle, the popular burrito restaurant chain, said in April it was going to stop offering its patrons genetically modified foods (GMO), pledging to no longer use modern biotechnology crops for any of its ingredients. -
Benefits of Health Information Exchanges Identified
Opinion -Health information exchange (HIE) is the transfer of electronic information such as lab results, clinical summaries, and medication lists, and its proponents claim it can be used to boost efficiency, reduce health care costs, and improve outcomes for -
Stupid-Strategy Sweepstakes: Home Depot vs. Lowe’s
Opinion -Both of the nation's retail hardware behemoths, Home Depot and Lowe's, recently sold out to activists in ways that are the corporate equivalent of a dog's putting his tail between his legs and slinking away from a bully. -
New EPA Regulations Ban Production and Sale of Most Wood-Burning Stoves
Opinion -The vast majority of U.S. wood-burning stoves are now banned under Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rules that were finalized in February. -
Coca-Cola Takes on Scaremongers
Opinion -At the April meeting of the Coca-Cola Company’s (CCC) shareholders, the National Center for Public Policy Research urged the soft drink manufacturer’s CEO, Muhtar Kent, to do more to promote the safety and benefits of genetically modified organisms (GMO). -
Sen. James Inhofe to Open Tenth International Conference on Climate Change
Opinion -Chairman of Senate Environment and Public Works Committee to DeliverBreakfast Keynote on Thursday, June 11U.S. Sen. -
Celebrity Defends McDonalds’ Low-Skill, Low-Wage Jobs
Opinion -While McDonalds is vilified by the $15 minimum wage movement as the poster child for corporate greed and worker exploitation, one famous actor has a different perspective. -
Worse Than Government-Caused Uncertainty? Certainty the Government is Against You
Opinion -Without investment, everything economic collapses. Stasis is death. We must constantly create and innovate to move forward our massive $14-trillion-per-year economy. That takes lots and lots and LOTS of speculative capital. -
Tennessee Officials Will Review Common Core
Opinion -Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam signed a bill to review and replace Common Core standards, according to a report by U.S. News and World Report. -
Millennials’ Health Insurance Premiums Skyrocket Under Obamacare
Opinion -The cost of health insurance premiums for young, healthy Americans have increased significantly under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare, at the close of the law’s second open-enrollment period, according to a recent analysis from The -
Obamacare’s Exchange Crises
Opinion -Obamacare’s Exchange Crises Consumer Power Report #461 The Pioneer Institute reports on the behind-the-scenes crisis in Massachusetts, where the launch of the Obamacare exchange was disastrous. -
Uncovered: Wikipedia’s Leftist Ties and Its Censorship of the Facts
Opinion -Despite the protests of countless experts claiming Wikipedia is often not a reliable source of information, it remains perhaps the most influential and one of the most-visited websites on the planet. -
‘Green’ Apple Installs Diesel Generators, Ballyhoos Phony Forest Offset Scheme
Opinion -While Apple Inc. continues its laughable claim that its data centers are run “100-percent” on renewable energy – highlighted by a solar farm built adjacent to its server facility in Maiden, N.C. -
Big Government Advocates Say They Want More Competition – Their ‘Solutions’ Result in Less
Opinion -The road to Hell is paved with good government intentions.We need not ascribe malicious motives to Big Government advocates – we need only look at their results. -
Now is Not the Time to Hike State Taxes on Oil and Gas Industry
Opinion -In response to significantly lower oil and natural gas prices, America’s energy sector is retrenching rapidly. -
New York Regulators Considering Bitcoin Financing Regulations
Opinion -New York State financial regulators are crafting a framework for placing cryptocurrency processing companies under government supervision. -
Government Overpaid for Swing Beds, Inspector General Reports
Opinion -The federal government overpaid critical access hospitals (CAH) by about $4.1 billion over six years to provide skilled nursing services using hospital swing beds, says a report from the U.S. -
Wait Times for New Patients Vary Widely In Boston and Dallas
Opinion -If you are a new patient needing to see a doctor for the first time, you may have to wait, according to a survey by Merritt Hawkins, a physician search and consulting firm that questioned some 1,399 medical offices in 2014 to determine wait times for new -
More Spending is Not The Answer to a Slow Economy
Opinion -Old fallacies never seem to die, they just fad away to reemerge once again later on. -
Using ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ To Explain Economics
Opinion -New York-based comedian Andrew Heaton, who’s been a guest of the Budget & Tax News weekly podcast in the past, recently published a pretty funny video using The Shawshank Redemption, a classic movie in anyone’s book, to explain supply and demand, and how -
Montana Creates Tax Credit Scholarship Program Without Governor’s Signature
Opinion -Montana became the 28th state to enact tax credit scholarship legislation in early May, as Senate Bill 410, a pilot tax credit scholarship program, passed into law. The school choice legislation became law without Gov. Steve Bullock’s (D) signature.
