corporate welfare
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Warning: Congress is preparing to pass a new farm bill.
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Budgets/TaxesFeatured
Fan Ownership, Not Stadium Welfare, Would Be Best For Sports Fans and Taxpayers
by Jesse Hathaway April 24, 2018This year, Major League Baseball’s opening day was the earliest it’s been in the modern history of the game.
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Budgets/TaxesEnvironment/Energy
Free Market Energy Vs The Big Government Cronyism And Subsidies Merry-Go-Round
by Seton Motley June 1, 2017How we power our nation should be, like everything else, as free market as possible. May the most effective, cheapest energy sources win
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Is it possible to kill “quasi-corporatism”?
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EconomicsEnvironment/Energy
Business ‘Savant’ Andrew Ross Sorkin Gets Elon Musk Very, Very Wrong
by Seton Motley December 23, 2016Musk isn’t the genius he’s propped up to be.
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Environment/Energy
A Tale Of Two Governors: Massive Cronyism And Other Terrible Policy
by Seton Motley December 15, 2016One of the heights of lowness that government cronyism has reached is a company managing to so master the favoritism processes, they get multiple states to simultaneously fill its trough.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Jesse Hathaway: Reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank
by Jesse Hathaway December 30, 2015In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, we listen in as Research Fellow Jesse Hathaway joins the Late Afternoons With Mike Schickman show where he discussed the recent passage of the Highway Bill that reauthorized the Export-Import Bank.
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Environment/EnergyPolitics
ICCC Panel 17 – Peer Review, Herding, and the Reliability of Climate Science
by John Engle July 10, 2014Panel 17 of the 9th International Conference on Climate Change was on the subject of “Peer Review, Herding, and the Reliability of Climate Science.” Anyone interested in the way science is actually conducted and the problems with the prevailing peer-review system can find a lot of interesting material in the discussion.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
FCC’s Netflix Internet Peering Inquiry – Top Ten Questions – Part 17 Netflix Series
by Scott Cleland June 20, 2014Does Netflix have any responsibility to help provide its users the streaming service that they paid Netflix for by connecting with ISPs in the high quality manner that most all other content delivery networks do? In other words, why is Netflix such an outlier here?
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Exposing Netflix’ Biggest Net Neutrality Deceptions – Part 16 Netflix Research Series
by Scott Cleland June 6, 2014If Netflix’ position on net neutrality was justified on the merits, why does Netflix need to say so many deceptive things that are demonstrably untrue, in order to justify its case for its version of net neutrality?
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EconomicsFeaturedPolitics
Big Business’ Slush Fund Seeks Re-Authorization
by Nancy Thorner April 25, 2014Shortly, Congress will be debating the fate of the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im). Its authorization — last extended in 2012 — will expire on September 30 unless reauthorized. Ex-Im was first incorporated in 1934 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to finance trade with the Soviet Union. Under the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945, Congress established the bank as an independent agency. It provides loans and loan guarantees (as well as capital and credit insurance) to facilitate U.S. exports. Backed up by the full faith and credit of the U.S government, taxpayers are put on the hook.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPolitics
Adoption of New Bulbs Requires Big Subsidies and Killing Incandescents
by Paul Chesser December 18, 2013Shouldn’t it be the customers’ choice to decide whether they want the cheaper bulb that uses more electricity and delivers a light quality that many people prefer?
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EconomicsFeaturedInternet/TelecomPolitics
The FCC/DOJ’s one gigahertz spectrum charade
by Scott Cleland June 10, 2013The FCC and DOJ do not want to look ridiculous applying a spectrum cap to Verizon and AT&T and not Sprint when the FCC’s own Wireless Competition report shows that Sprint controls roughly twice as many MHz per population as either Verizon or AT&T.