By Walter Olson
As Tad has noted, Thumbtack.com in cooperation with the excellent Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City has produced this attractive, clickable map of the 50 states displaying the results of a survey of small-business friendliness. It’s worth checking out your state’s standing, as well as that of states with which it competes for new business. To a [...]
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By Daniel J. Mitchell
It is very sad that America’s tax system is so onerous that some rich people feel they have no choice but to give up U.S. citizenship in order to protect their family finances. I’ve written about this issue before, particularly in the context of Obama’s class-warfare policies leading to an increase in the number of [...]
Facebook Billionaire Gives Up Citizenship to Escape Bad American Tax Policy is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Marian L. Tupy
In 1972, the Club of Rome published an extremely popular and influential neo-Malthusian tract called The Limits to Growth. This apocalyptic warning about over-population, over-consumption, and environmental destruction sold some 12 million copies and was translated into 37 languages. According to the authors of The Limits to Growth, “Serious stresses involving population, resources, and environment [...]
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By Tad DeHaven
Yesterday evening I blogged on a pending vote in the House on an amendment introduced by Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) to eliminate funding for the Economic Development Administration. Unfortunately, the …
Republicans Help Save the Economic Development Administration is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Chris Edwards
My new piece at Daily Caller looks at how the Democratic Party’s approach to tax policy has changed over the decades. The piece was prompted by a recent article from Norm Ornstein and Tom Mann claiming that needed bipartisan reforms are being blocked by the new “ideologically extreme” Republican Party. Baloney. It’s the Democrats who have changed. The party’s leaders [...]
Democratic Tax Policy, Then and Now is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Christopher Preble
Sunday’s New York Times featured a front-page article by Thom Shanker on the U.S. military’s presence in Central America. In Honduras, American Special Forces operate out of three outposts—modeled on forward bases in Afghanistan and Iraq—providing support to Honduran Special forces. 600 U.S. troops operate across Central America and try to maintain a “discrete footprint” [...]
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By Chris Edwards
There’s an internal contradiction in the way that Keynesian-oriented economists and policymakers address the federal budget situation. I’ve noticed it over and over. A passage in a Washington Post op-ed today by Mohamed El-Erian of Pimco captures it perfectly: [T]he U.S. fiscal situation requires a carefully designed and well-timed overhaul to make government finances more efficient and [...]
A Contradiction in Keynesian Fiscal Policy is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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By Neal McCluskey
As the story of Julia—America’s favorite two-dimensional, life-long ward of the state—makes clear, higher education is likely to figure prominently in the upcoming presidential campaign. In addition, as the student loan interest uproar has progressed, I’ve realized that a lot of well-meaning people have little or no clue about higher ed reality. As a result, I’ve put together a few [...]
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By Jim Harper
New Hampshire has been a bellwether state in national ID debates before. I wrote about its push-back against the E-Verify federal background check system in a recent post entitled “Cardless National ID and the E-Verify Rebellion.” The bill that was the subject of that post, HB 1549 by Rep. Seth Cohn (R-Merrimack 6), has now [...]
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By Walter Olson
Farm families, along with the cause of liberty, won an important battle last week when the Obama administration scrapped plans to prohibit kids from doing a wide range of jobs in agriculture, even on farms belonging to their own family members. The rules would have barred youngsters under 16 from working with animals, storage bins, [...]
Obama Labor Department Won’t Ban Kids’ Farm Chores is a post from Cato @ Liberty – Cato Institute Blog
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