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Business & Economics
Obama should abandon energy fables and deal with facts
After a bruising battle over cap and trade last year, President Obama has set his sights on another target — oil and natural gas companies. Vilifying “big oil” might be good politics, but it’s bad policy. If we’re going to get serious about energy solutions, we first need to separate ...
Lawrence J. McQuillan
February 25, 2011
Business & Economics
Balancing California’s unwieldy budget
Gov. Jerry Brown’s State of the State speech Monday night was pretty much what anyone should have expected, as the new governor championed his “tough choices” budget and pushed hard for its centerpiece: a public vote on controversial tax extensions. Since his inauguration, Brown has made it clear that he ...
Steven Greenhut
January 31, 2011
Commentary
Health exchanges a bad idea for Wisconsin
Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has joined the multistate legal challenge to the federal health reform law. The law has been unpopular with Badger State voters for some time; nearly 60% favored repeal in a Rasmussen poll taken just before the midterm elections. Fortunately, Wisconsin can help defeat this ...
John R. Graham
January 20, 2011
Health Care
The End of the “Individual Mandate” Is Not the End of Obamacare
Last month Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli successfully argued that the so-called individual mandate in Obamacare was outside congressional competence. Advocates of individual choice in health care cheered a significant victory, but this is not the final judicial word on Obamacare. U.S. District judge Henry E. Hudson ruled that the ...
John R. Graham
January 5, 2011
Commentary
Should Your State Establish an Obamacare Health Insurance Exchange?
Obamacare is unpopular, unwieldy, expensive, likely unconstitutional, and will shortly be a prime target for repeal. Obamacare is unpopular, unwieldy, expensive, likely unconstitutional, and will shortly be a prime target for repeal. And the worst is yet to come: Obamacare expects states to do much of the law’s dirty work. ...
John R. Graham
November 8, 2010
Health Care
Beyond ObamaCare: The Ninth and Tenth Amendments and the “Right to Health Care”
Key Points: Libertarians and conservatives need not fear a “right to health care,” because defining such a right prevents ObamaCare and similar federal interference, according to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. A number of legislators and attorneys general have decided to challenge ObamaCare on constitutional grounds, citing the Tenth Amendment, ...
John R. Graham
November 5, 2010
Business & Economics
Costs and Consequences: Rate-of-Return Biases, Rate Suppression, and Market Incentives for Quality in Property/Casualty Insurance Regulation
The imposition of legal and regulatory constraints on market pricesprice controls, or rate suppression in the case of the property/casualty insurance marketis an important tool with which public officials can effect wealth transfers among groups and economic sectors. Rate suppression can take the form of allowed rates too low to ...
Benjamin Zycher
October 26, 2010
Health Care
Book Review: The Truth about Obamacare
Health care reform may prove to be President Obama’s signature domestic achievement — as well as the undoing of the Democratic Party. Contrary to his claim that Americans would grow to love Uncle Sam as doctor-in-chief, public support for statist “reform” continues to fall. Few Democrats in marginal congressional districts ...
Doug Bandow
September 14, 2010
Commentary
Obamacare Will Cost You Your Retirement
President Obama’s tax pledge, which he made as a candidate, couldn’t have been any clearer: “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 will see their taxes increase — not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” He even ...
Sally C. Pipes
August 2, 2010
Business & Economics
It’s not easy being nonunion green
SACRAMENTO – The state’s Democratic legislators have an inordinate hostility to the free marketplace, as evidenced by their endless push for new business regulations and for higher taxes for corporations and wealthy Californians. Yet there is one form of business development that the California Left has embraced with particular gusto ...
Steven Greenhut
June 19, 2010
Obama should abandon energy fables and deal with facts
After a bruising battle over cap and trade last year, President Obama has set his sights on another target — oil and natural gas companies. Vilifying “big oil” might be good politics, but it’s bad policy. If we’re going to get serious about energy solutions, we first need to separate ...
Balancing California’s unwieldy budget
Gov. Jerry Brown’s State of the State speech Monday night was pretty much what anyone should have expected, as the new governor championed his “tough choices” budget and pushed hard for its centerpiece: a public vote on controversial tax extensions. Since his inauguration, Brown has made it clear that he ...
Health exchanges a bad idea for Wisconsin
Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has joined the multistate legal challenge to the federal health reform law. The law has been unpopular with Badger State voters for some time; nearly 60% favored repeal in a Rasmussen poll taken just before the midterm elections. Fortunately, Wisconsin can help defeat this ...
The End of the “Individual Mandate” Is Not the End of Obamacare
Last month Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli successfully argued that the so-called individual mandate in Obamacare was outside congressional competence. Advocates of individual choice in health care cheered a significant victory, but this is not the final judicial word on Obamacare. U.S. District judge Henry E. Hudson ruled that the ...
Should Your State Establish an Obamacare Health Insurance Exchange?
Obamacare is unpopular, unwieldy, expensive, likely unconstitutional, and will shortly be a prime target for repeal. Obamacare is unpopular, unwieldy, expensive, likely unconstitutional, and will shortly be a prime target for repeal. And the worst is yet to come: Obamacare expects states to do much of the law’s dirty work. ...
Beyond ObamaCare: The Ninth and Tenth Amendments and the “Right to Health Care”
Key Points: Libertarians and conservatives need not fear a “right to health care,” because defining such a right prevents ObamaCare and similar federal interference, according to the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. A number of legislators and attorneys general have decided to challenge ObamaCare on constitutional grounds, citing the Tenth Amendment, ...
Costs and Consequences: Rate-of-Return Biases, Rate Suppression, and Market Incentives for Quality in Property/Casualty Insurance Regulation
The imposition of legal and regulatory constraints on market pricesprice controls, or rate suppression in the case of the property/casualty insurance marketis an important tool with which public officials can effect wealth transfers among groups and economic sectors. Rate suppression can take the form of allowed rates too low to ...
Book Review: The Truth about Obamacare
Health care reform may prove to be President Obama’s signature domestic achievement — as well as the undoing of the Democratic Party. Contrary to his claim that Americans would grow to love Uncle Sam as doctor-in-chief, public support for statist “reform” continues to fall. Few Democrats in marginal congressional districts ...
Obamacare Will Cost You Your Retirement
President Obama’s tax pledge, which he made as a candidate, couldn’t have been any clearer: “Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 will see their taxes increase — not your income taxes, not your payroll taxes, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.” He even ...
It’s not easy being nonunion green
SACRAMENTO – The state’s Democratic legislators have an inordinate hostility to the free marketplace, as evidenced by their endless push for new business regulations and for higher taxes for corporations and wealthy Californians. Yet there is one form of business development that the California Left has embraced with particular gusto ...