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The Truth About Taxes and Redistribution
Editors Note: Reason columnist and Mercatus Center economist Veronique de Rugy appears weekly on Bloomberg TV to separate economic fact from economic myth. Myth 1: The wealthy arent paying their fair...
View ArticleCalifornia Finally Seems Ready to Reign in Eminent Domain Abuse
The California courts seem to be stepping up to the plate to provide property rights protections to homeowners and business owners threatened by eminent domain abuse. On April 21, 2011, a California...
View ArticleUniv. of Iowa Pursuing PPP for Student Housing
The Daily Iowanreports that Housing officials at the University of Iowa are pursuing a public-private partnership (PPP) to ensure availability of graduate student housing. Over the past few years...
View ArticleThank China, India, Brazil and Africa for Green Transportation Technology,...
Last week, I was invited to give a speech on the future of transportion finance at the Georgia Public Policy Foundation in Atlanta. A nice summary of my main points was reported by GPPF's Mike Klein....
View ArticleUnwelcome Surprises in Libya
Is it too early to declare our intervention in Libya a failure?More than a month after we started bombing, the insurgency has suffered a string of defeats. The government in Tripoli suddenly looks as...
View ArticleChina's Emerging High Speed Rail Nightmare
China's high-speed rail network has been lauded for its vision and boldness by everyone from President Obama to New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman to grassroots partisan rail enthusiasts....
View ArticleWhite House Takes Wrong Side on Police GPS Tracking
It is disappointing that the Obama administration, which campaigned against George W. Bush’s poor record on civil liberties protection, is pursuing a course that aims to limit Fourth Amendment rights...
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The Myth of Homeownership Wealth Creation
Ahead of the Curve Issue 3 Over the past several decades, politicians in Washington have considered increasing homeownership to be a civic duty. And the reasons seem obvious: It's the American Dream....
View ArticleTime to Separate the ATO from FAA Safety Regulation
In the fall 2009 issue of The Journal of Air Traffic Control, Frank Frisbie suggests that the time has come to consider separating the FAA's two principal functions-a. In this article we would like to...
View ArticleTime to Eliminate the Blight of California's Redevelopment Agencies
California Governor Jerry Brown's proposal to eliminate state subsidies of local redevelopment agencies is now on life support because only one Republican, outspoken redevelopment and eminent domain...
View ArticleGeorgia's Proposed Cigarette Tax Increase Would Be Bad Policy
Georgia lawmakers, facing a $1 billion budget deficit, are being encouraged to balance the state budget with the help of cigarette taxes. Earlier this year, the state’s Special Council on Tax Reform...
View ArticleNew at Reason: Why Housing Prices Keep Falling and the Myth that...
Home prices are continuing their decline, as new data released by the S&P/Case-Shiller Housing Price Index today show. For the top 10 major metropolitan areas, prices declined 1.1% from January to...
View ArticleHow Long Before Someone Dies Because of an Unsecured Wireless Router?
According to an AP story out of Buffalo, N.Y., federal agents armed with assault weapons stormed a residence in the early morning hours last month looking for child porn on a home PC. The homeowner,...
View ArticleKeep Your Hands Off My Drone
Neoconservatives responded to President Obama's recent proposal for sham defense cuts with a major hissy fit. The Weekly Standard even declared them “morally and strategically unsound.”Their reaction...
View ArticleWhither Gasoline Prices?
Gasoline prices are up to $3.88 per gallon on average in the United States because the price of crude is running at around $112 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Its really simple; the...
View ArticleTIFIA Is a Powerful Tool In Financing Large-Scale Infrastructure Projects
In 1998 Congress created the Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (TIFIA) to provide credit assistance (loans and/or loan guarantees) for surface transportation projects. These can...
View ArticleDrug Control vs. Pain Control
Last week, unveiling a plan to curtail "diversion" of opioid painkillers, Obama administration officials said they aim to "strike a balance between our desire to minimize abuse of prescription drugs...
View ArticlePublic-Private Partnerships Can Improve Corrections, Safety
While Florida faces a multi-billion dollar budget shortfall and billions more in financial liabilities, the current fiscal crisis offers an opportunity to seek innovative ways to transform the way...
View ArticleIf you focus on the deficit, then tax increases are on the table.
In 1985, Grover Norquist founded Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), an advocacy group that opposes all tax increases on principle. Since then, he’s gone on to become one of the most influential...
View ArticleIf You Love Big Bird, Set Him Free
The good news for public broadcasters is that Congress has failed to defund them. The budget deal reached earlier this month didn't include the House Republicans' rider to remove all subsidies to...
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