Showing posts with label subsidies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label subsidies. Show all posts
Will The Supreme Court Redeem Itself On ObamaCare?
by Damon Root. ObamaCare goes back on trial. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed today to rule on the Obamacare case King v. Burwell, which asks whether the text of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act forbids the granting of tax credits to individuals who purchased insurance on health care exchanges operated by the federal government. ... MORE
The 5 Most Troubling Things in Congress’ New Spending Bill
by Romina Boccia. Yesterday evening, the House of Representatives released its stopgap spending measure which blindly continues the bloated spending in the January omnibus bill that included special-interest handouts, wasteful and unnecessary energy spending, and transportation boondoggles. Instead of debating and voting on ... MOREFeds Spend $450K To Help Indians With Climate Change
Taxpayers scalped, weather or not. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) plans to spend up to $450,000 in taxpayer dollars to teach Native American tribes in the Great Basin region ”climate adaptation plans” for their hunting, fishing and gathering activities. “Due to climate change, the natural landscapes are becoming ... MOREFree Market Capitalism vs. Crony Capitalism
by Richard Ebeling. In the minds of many people around the world, including in the United States, the term “capitalism” carries the idea of unfairness, exploitation, undeserved privilege and power, and immoral profit making. What is often difficult to get people to understand is that this misplaced conception of “capitalism” has nothing to ... MORE
John Stossel - "Crapitalism!"
The game of political power. There's capitalism, and then there's "crapitalism" — crony capitalism. Capitalism is great because it lets entrepreneurs raise money so they can scale up and get their products and services to more people. If there is free competition, innovators with the best ideas raise the most money, and the best and cheapest ... MOREPeter Suderman: The Ethanol Disaster
Bad for consumers, the environment, and the poor. Last November, when the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) proposed moderating years of escalating mandates by reducing the amount of ethanol that must be mixed into gasoline, a top ethanol lobbyist seemed perplexed. "We're all just sort of scratching our heads here ... MOREThomas Sowell: The High Cost Of Liberalism - Part Three
The wrong incentives. Income inequality has long been one of the liberals' favorite issues. So there is nothing surprising about its being pushed hard this election year. If nothing else, it is a much-needed distraction from the disasters of ObamaCare and the various IRS, Benghazi and other Obama administration scandals. Like so many other ... MOREJames Conca: It's Final -- Corn Ethanol Is Of No Use
It's always been about subsidies, not the environment. OK, can we please stop pretending biofuel made from corn is helping
the planet and the environment? The United Nations Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change released two of its Working Group reports at the
end of last month (WGI and WGIII), and their short discussion of ... MOREObama's Green-Energy Scams Leave Taxpayers In The Red
by Justin Sykes. How we gave China a stimulus. It’s been more than five years since President Obama signed his
misguided economic-stimulus package into law, creating green-energy
subsidies and expanding others, but American taxpayers are still feeling
its disastrous effects. This month a deal was reached between competing creditors of ... MOREThe Dumbest Federal Policy You'll Read About Today
by A. Barton Hinkle. It benefits special interests, hurts consumers, and harms the planet. If you are like most people, you probably spend a lot of time
wondering, "What is the absolutely worst environmental policy on
the planet?" And if you are like most people, you probably think it
is America’s ethanol policy. So Virginia's recent decision to ... MOREWhere Is The Outrage Over Corporate Welfare?
by David Brunori. I recently read the February 24 Good Jobs First report, “Subsidizing the Corporate One Percent,”
by Philip Mattera, a respected thought leader in our business. It says
that three-quarters of all state economic development subsidies went to
just 965 corporations since the beginning of the study in 1976. The Fortune 500 ... MOREDemocrats' Policies Make Income Inequality Worse
by George Will. Someone who is determined to disbelieve something can manage to
disregard an Everest of evidence for it. So Barack Obama will not temper
his enthusiasm for increased equality with lucidity about the
government’s role in exacerbating inequality. In the movie “Animal House,”
Otter, incensed by the expulsion of his fraternity, ... MORE
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