Andrew Barr
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsLegal AffairsLibertyPoliticsTaxes
The Dollars and Sense of Tax Havens: The Necessity of the Offshore Economy
by Andrew Barr July 24, 2012The recent controversies over the lack of transparency of Mitt Romney’s 2012 tax returns and the existence of several offshore accounts in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland raise important questions…
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Environment/EnergyLibertyMedia
Heartland, the Art of Protest, and the Desire for Real Debate
by Andrew Barr May 31, 2012Innovation is a risky business, a venture seldom without controversy and conflict. Those who question conventionality, who challenge the status-quo, place themselves in the precarious position of disagreeing with established,…
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsHealth CarePoliticsTaxes
Pennsylvania’s Medicaid Debacle
by Andrew Barr January 6, 2012As the gradual implementation of Obamacare continues and debate over the intelligence of socialized medicine mounts, the budgetary malaise of the current Medicaid system should be a red flag to…
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsHealth CarePoliticsTaxes
Obamacare, Europe and the Sophistries of Socialized Medicine
by Andrew Barr December 27, 2011Culturally and politically, the United States and Great Britain have much in common; a shared heritage, similar economic and foreign policy goals, and a recently, a mutual proclivity toward socialized…
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsEnvironment/EnergyPolitics
Biofuels and the U.S. Navy’s ‘Great Green Fleet’
by Andrew Barr December 21, 2011On the orders of President Theodore Roosevelt, from December 16, 1907, to February 2, 1909, two squadrons of naval vessels circumnavigated the globe in a display of the United States’…
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsEducation
The Road to Nowhere: The Higher Education Bubble and Liberal Arts Education
by Andrew Barr November 21, 2011While the president’s October announcement of a plan to expedite Congress’s reduction of required payments on student loans from 15 percent of annual discretionary income to 10 percent might prove…
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EconomicsPoliticsTaxes
The ‘Buffett Rule’ and the Follies of Demand-Side Economics
by Andrew Barr September 19, 2011As the president’s new tax plan looms on the horizon, the fallout from the notion of a minimum tax rate for millionaires has begun. While Democrats begin to use words…
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Though Rahm Emanuel’s 100 days in office are hardly a basis for comprehensive judgement, the mayor’s support of a new ordinance passed by City Council is disconcerting to investors, community…
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EconomicsEnvironment/EnergyLegal AffairsLibertyPolitics
The EPA’s Crusade against Coal
by Andrew Barr July 18, 2011Like many of the EPA’s regulatory forays, the Clean Air Act of 1963 is fundamentally well intentioned, but has been subject to so many amendments and new rules through the…
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EconomicsEnvironment/EnergyLegal AffairsLibertyMediaPolitics
Seeds of Prosperity: The Monsanto Story
by Andrew Barr July 9, 2011It has become part of American tradition to demonize industry, always framing it in the classic “little” versus “big” or “good” versus “evil” scenario. Regardless of the role that corporations…
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EconomicsInternet/TelecomLegal AffairsLibertyPolitics
Duke Nukem Lives: Brown v. EMA
by Andrew Barr June 28, 2011The Supreme Court’s June 27th decision to strike down a California law prohibiting the sale of violent video games to minors is a victory for both the video game industry…
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Businesses strive to make profit, and profit is achieved through a cogent business model, sound financial decisions, and perhaps most importantly, efficiency. Business grows and flourishes when it becomes more…
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EconomicsEnvironment/EnergyHealth CareLibertyPoliticsTaxes
Protecting Yourself from Yourself: Reflections on the Nanny State
by Andrew Barr June 22, 2011Ever since the term “nanny state” was used by British MP Iain Macleod in a column in The Spectator in 1965, it has become a regular part of the parlance…