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Budgets/TaxesClimate ChangeEnvironment/EnergyFeaturedGovernmentLibertyPodcastTaxes
In The Tank (ep177) – Green New Deal Insanity, Panera Cares Fail, Stadium Subsidies
by Donald Kendal February 8, 2019Heartland’s Donald Kendal and Justin Haskins are joined by Isaac Orr, Policy Fellow at the Center of the American Experiment, in episode #177 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s episode features work from the Center of the American Experiment, the Reason Foundation, and the Mercatus Center.
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Budgets/TaxesEconomicsFeaturedGovernmentLibertyPodcastTaxes
In The Tank (ep104) – Trump’s Tax Reform Plan, Accusations of Price Gouging, and Stadium Subsidies
by Donald Kendal September 1, 2017In John’s absence, Donny Kendal is joined by Research Fellow for Budget and Tax, Jesse Hathaway, in episode #104 of the In The Tank Podcast.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
Climate Negotiations Fraught with Difficulties, Likely to Fail
by H. Sterling Burnett December 6, 2015Negotiators trying to develop a strong climate agreement in Paris face significant hurdles. The goal of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s 21st Conference of the Parties is to produce an international agreement that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an amount necessary to prevent a 2-degree Celsius rise in global average temperature in this century. The conference is likely to fail to meet this goal.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Why Are So Many on the Right Helping the Left Undermine Our Patent System?
by Seton Motley December 4, 2015It is disappointing to see so many people who usually reside on the Right – go screaming Leftward on an issue so fundamental to all-things-free-market as private property protection. In this particular case – patent protection.
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FeaturedTobacco
Minnesota Researchers’ #EpicFail – Trying for a Smokeless Tobacco/Cancer Link
by Brad Rodu February 6, 2015Publishing a study of tobacco-specific nitrosamines in American smokeless tobacco products (abstracthere), Dorothy Hatsukami and colleagues at the University of Minnesota called for the FDA to issue “regulations…to reduce levels of…NNK and NNN in smokeless tobacco products to the lowest levels possible.” The authors make illogical and unscientific claims in their article and media interviews (here).
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
President Obama’s Climate Plan Would Kill Hundreds Of Millions Of Birds And Bats
by James Taylor July 31, 2013A newly published peer-reviewed study reports U.S. wind turbines kill 1.4 million birds and bats every year, even while producing just 3 percent of U.S. electricity.
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/EnergyFeatured
Cheap Energy: a Human Right for the Public Good
by Marita Noon June 24, 2013To date, precious little action to combat climate change has been seen from the White House—which pleases most Republicans and angers the left.