Showing posts with label subsidies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label subsidies. Show all posts
Baylen Linnekin: This Farm Bill Stinks
A lousy new Farm Bill is about to become law. CattlePublic DomainLike a phoenix made of pork, the Farm Bill has risen from the ashes. And for opponents of farm subsidies and wasteful government spending, that’s bad news. The measure, which had languished for two years in Congress, passed in the House this week. The Senate is ... MOREObamacare Holds Some Nasty Surprises For Taxpayers
by Rick Moran. If you are currently receiving a subsidy from the government for your health insurance, you better be aware that any "life changes" that occur during the year - marriage, divorce, increase in income - has to be reported to the IRS. Otherwise, you're liable to get a nasty surprise come tax time. Politico: It's a new responsibility ... MOREWalter E Williams: Dumb Politicians Won't Get Elected
A vote-buying technique called handouts. Politicians can be progressives, liberals, conservatives, Democrats or Republicans, and right-wingers. They just can't be dumb. The American people will never elect them to office. Let's look at it. For years, I used to blame politicians for our economic and social mess. That changed during the 1980s ... MORE20 Dumb Ways Government Wasted Your Money In 2013
by John Giokaris. "The cupboard is bare ...There’s no more cuts to make." That’s what House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) told CNN’s State of the Union in September during an interview about spending reform. Really? She can’t find any spending to cut in the federal budget? Why can’t she start with the $30 billion in government ... MOREJohn Stossel: Look Back In Liberty 2013
This wasn't a great year for liberty. A few disasters that government caused: Obamacare. It was supposed to "bend the cost curve" downward. The central planners had lots of time to perfect their scheme. For a generation, the brightest left-wing wonks focused on health care policy. The result? Soviet-style consumer service ... MORE
California Taxpayers To Subsidize Green Cars For The Poor
by Steven Greenhut. One longtime critic of federal
transportation spending once concluded that it would be less
expensive for the government to buy every new transit rider a
Jaguar XJ8 than it would be to build certain new rail systems.
Unfortunately, California officials may not have realized that the
idea of buying people new cars ... MOREAnother Insurance Mess Government Has Gotten Us Into
Kathleen Pender on the flood insurance snafu. A complex new federal insurance law is having so many unintended
consequences that some of its original sponsors and backers are now
trying to delay it. It's not the Affordable Care Act. It's the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012. Its goal was to put the National Flood ... MOREFroma Harrop: Scandal In Candyland
Taxpayers get not-so-sweet deal. Ever notice how some government programs draw the ire of almost everyone? Conservatives, liberals, environmentalists, libertarians, business, labor, consumers and grouchy taxpayers are all opposed. Yet these programs go on as though directed by an unstoppable particle beam from a neighboring ... MOREVeronique de Rugy: The Kids Aren't All Right
Suffocated by gov't spending, subsidies and debt. A word of caution for kids heading off to college this year: Your degree may be worth less and cost more than you think. Your job prospects will likely be grim, whether or not you get that sheepskin. Oh, and you're on the hook for trillions in federal debt racked up by your parents and ... MORETesla Motors And The Folly Of Government Intervention
by A. Barton Hinkle. Anyone searching for a case study to explain what is wrong with capitalism in America today can stop looking. We have the perfect specimen: Tesla Motors. Federal and state programs have conferred huge advantages to help the electric-vehicle company sell its cars — which state laws then make almost impossible to sell. ... MOREEric Peters: Assault And GM's $30,000 Battery
You might be allotted 200 miles between rechargings. The economy must be doing a lot better than all the wretched
indexes (number of people no longer even trying to find
work, number of people on the dole, etc.) indicate. Otherwise, GM
would not have
announced it is committed to developing a new electric car
battery capable ... MOREAndrew Langer: Free Markets Vs False Markets
Government puts shackles on producers. One of the great benefits of free markets is that they are eminently adaptable, constantly changing to meet the forces of supply, demand, and price. They are, in many ways, like organisms or ecosystems, evolving over time to improve. As factors change, industries or firms meet those changes, ... MORE
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