Rural Broadband Program Misses the Mark
Over the past several years, the federal government has launched several programs to encourage the development of new and advanced telecommunications services in all areas of the country. The two[...]
Tagged: Subsidies
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Environment/Energy · Featured
Bottomless Subsidies Needed to Keep DOE Electric Truck Project Alive
The most recent report (reflecting up until March 31) under the $32 million grant shows that Smith delivered 421 of its vehicles, with $27,343,311 reimbursed to the company with government funds thus far. That calculates to a whopping $64,948 taxpayer subsidy per vehicle.
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Budgets/Taxes · Environment/Energy · Featured
Cheap Energy: a Human Right for the Public Good
To date, precious little action to combat climate change has been seen from the White House—which pleases most Republicans and angers the left.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Regulation
Greedy Africans are Starving Our Cars
US politicians and bureaucrats have less compassion and common sense that average Londoner.
Budgets/Taxes · Featured · Politics
Farm Bill: After Three Failed Decades of No Reform, Isn’t it Time to Try A Different Approach?
…Farming and agriculture have been around for tens of thousands of years. For the vast majority of that time, we grew stuff just fine without a Farm Bill (let alone an entire Cabinet-level Department).
Environment/Energy · Featured · FIRE · Podcast
Heartland Daily Podcast: Here’s Why We Need to Question Economic Development Claims
Businesses and industries looking for government handouts have produced studies that predict big paybacks. Roy Cordato of the John Locke Foundation says there’s a great reason to take these studies with a shaker or two of salt.
BP: Back to Petroleum and Beyond Puff-power
British Petroleum is still one of the world’s biggest oil companies. But as early as the late 1990s they didn’t want you think of them that way. CEO, Lord John[...]
One Day in the Life of Federal Government
I’m scanning headlines on the Internet. I see President Obama has announced he’ll agree to cut Social Security and other benefit programs in exchange for higher taxes. I think, “Take[...]
Connect America Fund and Broadband Internet Taxes, An Unnecessary Subsidy
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is considering a proposal that would create a new tax on broadband Internet service. The new tax would be designated to fund the Connect America Fund[...]
Environment/Energy · Media · Taxes
Tax Breaks and Green Energy
A recently released report prepared by liberal think tank Citizens for Tax Justice (CFTJ) has attracted the attention of the MSM. Entitled “Corporate Taxpayers and Corporate Tax Dodgers 2008 –[...]
Haley Barbour’s Health Exchange Problem
My critique of Gov. Haley Barbour’s exchange plan is at the DC Examiner today. Given Mississippi’s exceedingly poor population, under the exchange Barbour has endorsed combined with Obamacare, 76% of[...]
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- Obama’s Humpty Dumpty fix: Health insurance market should put itself back together again
- Millennials: Obama Thinks You’re Stupid | FreedomWorks
- The Bureaucracy on Autopilot
- Jonah Goldberg - Obamacare Schadenfreudarama
- House Democratic Leaders: We Will Not Apologize to Americans Losing Their Health Insurance
