Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Internet/Telecom
RE: The Internet Sales Tax Rush
After a long series of insightful articles about how low taxes promote economic growth, Art Laffer gets the internet tax wrong.
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Economics · Environment/Energy · Featured
The Skunk at the Rent-Seekers’ Party
The March 26 edition of The Wall Street Journal has a special section titled “Environment” presenting excerpts and features from the Journal’s latest ECO:nomics conference. While the opening essay by[...]
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Peggy Noonan Is Wrong, Again
In a blog I used to write for regularly before joining Heartland, I used to specialize in take-downs of Peggy Noonan. Bless her heart, but she never really got Barack Obama, and[...]
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · FIRE
Hoover Institution Experts: Our Growing Economic Mess
In a recent editorial in The Wall Street Journal, a group of prominent economic experts took the government to task for many of its current poor fiscal and monetary decisions[...]
Why We Need Debate, Not Consensus, on Climate Change
The president of The Heartland Institute replies to Fred Krupp’s Wall Street Journal essay. Dear Fred, I read your August 7 opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal, “A New[...]
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Cellulosic Ethanol Continues to Prove Superficiality of Renewable Energy Subsidies
Some ideas sound so plausible that they can fail nine times in a row and still be believed the tenth time. Other ideas sound so implausible that they can succeed[...]
Union Big-Wig Andy Stern, His Idiocy, and Central Planning
Heartland fellow Ross Kaminsky has a can’t-miss-it rebuttal at the American Spectator to former SEIU head Andy Stern — the most popular guest at the White House, by far. The Wall Street[...]
WSJ Notes Heartland’s Contributions to Parent Trigger
The Wall Street Journal is out with a video editorial discussing the Parent Trigger on it’s first birthday—and the Heartland Institute’s contribution to chronicling and explaining the parent empowerment law.[...]
Economics · Legal Affairs · Politics · Regulation
An Insulting Argument, Even for a Labor Lawyer, on Boeing/NLRB Flap
Today’s Wall Street Journal has six letters taking apart Thomas Geoghegan’s inane and outrageous attack on Boeing wanting to open a manufacturing plant in South Carolina that appeared in Monday’s[...]
Economics · FIRE · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Regulation
Larry Ribstein Takes on WSJ Piece about Insider Trading
One has to admire U of I Law Professor Larry Ribstein’s sang-froid. In his Truth on the Market blog post the other day, he chastised The Wall Street Journal’s heavy-hitter Holman[...]
H.L. Mencken on Snyder v. Phelps
The libertarian take on the Supreme Court’s decision Wednesday in the Westboro Baptist/military funerals case may be boiled down to the old nostrum that we may disagree with what the[...]
In Compton, Scissors Beat Rock, Paper Beats Scissors, and a Staple Beats a ‘Trigger’
Rock-Paper-Scissors is a game most any child can grasp. Rock breaks scissors, scissors cut paper, paper covers rock. California’s landmark Parent Empowerment Act—a.k.a. the Parent Trigger—is a little bit like[...]
Huzzah! Wikipedia Bans Climate Alarmist from Editing Global Warming Entries
In three words: It’s about time. Via The Wall Street Journal and NewsBusters comes word that a notorious censor of Wikipedia’s global warming entry, British blogger William Connolley, has been banned[...]
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