Opinion
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What Is a Gross Receipts Tax?
Opinion -What exactly is a gross receipts tax? Here is the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department's definition: "The gross receipts tax is a tax on the privilege of doing business in the state. -
Illinois Transportation Authority Wants $10 Billion Subsidy Raise
Opinion -The Regional Transportation Authority (RTA), which oversees public transportation in Chicago and its metropolitan region, wants the state of Illinois to cough up another $10 billion over the next five years to further subsidize commuter rail, suburban -
Seattle’s ‘Sound Transit’ to Cost Nearly Double Original Estimate
Opinion -In 1996, Seattle-area voters approved the first phase of construction for a new transit system serving Central Puget Sound, dubbed Sound Transit. -
National Expert Doubts Claimed Benefits of Subsidies
Opinion -Prof. Allen Sanderson of the University of Chicago, who has extensively studied sports facility subsidies, says sports arenas do not stimulate economic growth or generate new public revenues. -
New York City Has Nation’s Highest and Lowest Income Tax Burdens: Report
Opinion -The Tax Foundation has released three new datasets that show how much in federal income taxes individuals in the nation's congressional districts, counties, and major city areas (metropolitan statistical areas, or MSAs) paid in tax year 2004. -
Proposed Texas Utilities Sale Could End Environmental Dispute
Opinion -Texas Utilities (TXU) announced in February a preliminary agreement for the largest company buyout in U.S. -
Ethanol Driving Up Corn Prices
Opinion -Continuing high demand for corn, fueled by increasing ethanol production, will keep corn prices at historic levels for the foreseeable future, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on March 1. -
Organic Farming Strains Environment
Opinion -You can cross off "saving the environment" as a reason to purchase organic foods, according to a new study conducted for the United Kingdom's Department for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs. -
Brazilian Sugarcane Subsidies No Model for U.S. Policy
Opinion -Ethanol subsidies and mandates similar to those imposed by Brazil during the past 30 years are not an economically viable option for the United States, according to a February 15 report by Marcus Renato Xavier, economics professor at Brazil's IBMEC -
Bush Moves to Curb Agency Guidance Abuse
Opinion -With very little fanfare, President George W. Bush quietly signed an executive order on January 18, 2007 approving major changes to the federal regulatory review process. -
Global Warming Creates Need for New Dams: Schwarzenegger
Opinion -Hoping to rally support for California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s (R) $4 billion plan to build two new hydroelectric dams, state Sen. -
Global Warming Outlook Far from Alarming
Opinion -From Hollywood to Capitol Hill, Al Gore’s global warming horror movie An Inconvenient Truth is receiving a tremendous amount of attention this spring. It is a riveting work of science fiction. -
Carbon Dioxide Levels Are a Blessing, Not a Problem
Opinion -For centuries, bloodletting was an accepted medical procedure administered by physicians to treat patients for most illnesses. In today's world, we find it almost inconceivable that such a practice was condoned by entire populations. -
How the Media Spread Gore’s Propaganda
Opinion -In May [2006], our nation was exposed to perhaps one of the slickest science propaganda films of all time: former Vice President Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. -
Conventional Wisdom Regarding Oil Origins May Be Wrong
Opinion -Review of Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil Jerome R. Corsi and Craig R. Smith WND Books, 2005, 356 pages, $26. -
Science Proves Chemical Fears Unfounded
Opinion -This article is the eleventh in a continuing series excerpted from the book Smoke or Steam? A Guide to Environmental, Regulatory, and Food Safety Concerns, by Samuel Aldrich, adapted and serialized by Jay Lehr. -
FCC Issues New Rules for Cable Franchising
Opinion -The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), looking to step up competition in cable and video markets, has issued a new set of rules and guidelines for local franchise authorities that regulate cable operations within their specified jurisdictions. -
Mo. Bill Would End Telecom Tax Lawsuits
Opinion -A bill that would put an end to a pending class-action lawsuit by municipalities against telecommunications companies has been introduced in the Missouri legislature. The untitled S.B. 209, introduced by state Sen. -
Ill. Governor Seeks Record Tax Increase
Opinion -Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D) has proposed the largest tax increase in the state's history as part of a plan to raise nearly $33 billion in new revenues. The state's total budgeted spending for the current fiscal year (ending June 30) is $56 billion. -
New Mexico Lawmakers Push for Spending Limits
Opinion -Tax and spending limits lost at the ballot box last November in several states, but a new effort to limit spending has popped up in New Mexico. State Sen. Kent Cravens (R-Albuquerque) and state Rep. -
Battle Brews in Washn. Over NASCAR, NBA Sonics Requests for $500 Million
Opinion -Washington State officials are sharply divided over two proposals that would use tax dollars to subsidize a NASCAR race track and a basketball arena for the Seattle Supersonics of the National Basketball Association. -
Teachers Are Highly Paid, Survey Shows
Opinion -A study released in January 2007 by the Manhattan Institute found the average public school teacher is paid 36 percent more than the average white-collar worker in the same metro area and works an average of three hours less a week, at 36.5 hours. -
Democrats Support Less-Expensive Alternative
Opinion -While the California Farm Bureau Federation has yet to take a position on California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's (R) proposal to have citizens fund a $4 billion dam product, Democratic legislators strongly oppose the plan. -
Senator Challenges Media to Report Objectively
Opinion -Global warming alarmism is unsupported by the weight of scientific evidence, and proposals by environmental activists to impose a drastic global warming prevention program are unwarranted, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), chairman of the U.S.