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States Expand Lucrative Pensions to More Jobs

As states tighten budgets and prepare to address massive deficits, special retirement benefits are constantly being extended to additional groups of workers.  While the exclusive packages were once reserved for police officers, firefighters and other public workers in dangerous areas, tens of thousands of state workers such as park rangers, dispatchers, coroners, even highway laborers, museum guards and…

The Obama administration has poured roughly $5 billion in taxpayer funds into the electric-car industry, offering incentives to manufacturers, their suppliers and even car buyers who might want to go green.  But analysts say the risk is rising that taxpayers in many cases will not see a return on their money soon, if ever.  Instead, they warn that some federally subsidized companies could be forced to shut down in coming months,…

Municipal "Millionaires"

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, under enormous pressure from public-employee unions and Democrats in the state Legislature to extend New York's "millionaires' tax," is considering at least some higher taxes on higher incomes.  The big irony here is that much of the money raised from any "millionaire" tax hikes would go to fund the growing phenomenon of public-sector millionaires, says Lawrence…

In September, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a report by its Office of Inspector General (OIG) stating that the EPA's technical support document (TSD) on greenhouse gas emissions violated federal standards.  The TSD provided the scientific backbone and technical analysis for the EPA's 2009 "endangerment finding," which gave the EPA authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.  The…

The current Occupy Wall Street movement is the best illustration to date

of what President Barack Obama's America looks like. It is an America

where the lawless, unaccomplished, ignorant and incompetent rule. It is

... an America where those who have sacrificed nothing pillage and…

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Florida's Medicaid Reform

During its five years of operations, Florida's Medicaid Reform Pilot has been a decided success, improving the health of enrolled patients, achieving high patient satisfaction and keeping cost increases below average.  Since then, Florida has passed its Statewide Reform, which promises to extend these benefits throughout the state.  If Florida's Medicaid Reform Pilot experience were replicated nationwide, the outcomes in…

Even if the health reform law survives Supreme Court scrutiny next spring, its trials will be far from over.  That's because the law has a major glitch that threatens its basic functioning, say Jonathan H. Adler, professor of law and director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation at Case…

 November 17, 2011

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November 4, 2011

The Democrats in Washington were surely channeling P.T. Barnum the day Mitch McConnell and John Boehner hauled up their freshly laundered white flags of surrender and agreed to the budget deal that created the Deficit Super Committee.

There is a sucker born every minute and for the last two minutes it was McConnell and Boehner. 

At least two Republicans on the Super Committee have joined…

Failure, though stigmatized by modern society as something to avoid at all cost, plays an irreplaceable role in the functioning of effective and efficient markets.  When we refuse to allow failure to happen, or we cushion its blow, we ultimately harm not only the person who failed but also all of society by denying ourselves a key way to learn how best to allocate resources.  Without failure there's no economic growth or improved human wellbeing, say Steven…

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has said new greenhouse gas regulations, as proposed, may be "absurd" in application and "impossible to administer" by its self-imposed 2016 deadline.  But the agency is still asking for taxpayers to shoulder the burden of up to 230,000 new bureaucrats -- at a cost of $21 billion -- to attempt to implement the rules.

• The EPA aims to regulate greenhouse gas emissions through the Clean Air Act, even though the law doesn't give the EPA…

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President Obama has revealed that the increased spending and temporary tax

cuts that his American Jobs Act entails will be offset solely with tax hikes,…

In a moment, the narrative has switched from whether the president's jobs

plan will do any good for the economy to whether the president's political

opponents would allow his plan to do any good for the economy.  This is an

unfortunate twist considering that there is no reason to believe that a

collection of measures to temporarily increase after-tax household and corporate

income, transfer more money to state and local governments, and change terms of…