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ConstitutionEnvironment/EnergyGovernmentPolitics
The Social Costs of Carbon Cancelation
by Paul Driessen March 15, 2021Banning carbon-based fuels will impose enormous costs that Team Biden deliberately ignores.
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Environment/Energy
EPA Finally Considering Looking at Benefits and Costs of Rulemaking Processes
by Ronald Stein June 22, 2020Cheap expressions of sympathy and solidarity to inner-city residents from the affluent are negated with imposition of unbearable costs for the energy to survive.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedHealth CareLegal AffairsPodcastRegulationTaxes
In The Tank (ep158) – World Poverty Declines Bigly, and Medicaid Expansion Costs Underestimated… Bigly
by Donald Kendal September 21, 2018Donny Kendal and John Nothdurft, with the help of Charlie Katebi, present episode #158 of the In The Tank Podcast. This week’s episode features work from the Cato Institute, the World Bank, The Heartland Institute, the Idaho Freedom Foundation, the Yankee Institute for Public Policy, and Pew Charitable Trusts.
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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedInternet/TelecomPodcastPolitics
In The Tank (ep116) – Thanksgiving Etiquette, Costs, Politics, and Chemicals(!?)
by Donald Kendal November 22, 2017John Nothdurft and Donny Kendal present episode #116 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from the American Council on Science and Health and the American Farm Bureau Federation.
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Budgets/TaxesHealth Care
In The Tank (ep62) – Obamacare Premiums Skyrocket, the Chicago Cubs, and Halloween Candy
by Donald Kendal October 28, 2016John and Donny continue their weekly exploration of think tanks across the country in episode #62 of the In The Tank Podcast. Today’s podcast features work from The Heartland Institute, the Galen Institute, the Illinois Policy Institute, and MacIver Institute.
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Environment/EnergyFeaturedPodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Sam Batkins: Obama Has Imposed 600+ Major Regulations
by H. Sterling Burnett August 22, 2016In today’s edition of The Heartland Daily Podcast, Sam Batkins, Director of Regulatory policy at the American Action Forum, joined the podcast to discuss his new paper titled “600 Major Regulations.”
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Critics of libertarians seem to worry most about our full-throated endorsement of and enthusiasm for the proven benefits of unhindered free-market competition. They believe that we are cynically defending a corrupt system of power and privilege, carrying water for capitalism’s exploiter class. There is, they argue, a need for governments, ostensibly pledged to “the greater good,” to intervene to counteract some of the perceived undesirable side effects of the free market system, which they say moves society toward inequitable accumulations of wealth in the hands of a few.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
The Hillary Treatment for Climate Fraudsters?
by Paul Driessen July 18, 2016This past March, seventeen attorneys general launched a coordinated effort to investigate, pursue and prosecute companies, think tanks and other organizations who say there is little credible evidence that human “greenhouse gas” emissions are causing “dangerous” or “catastrophic” manmade climate change.
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FeaturedHealth CarePodcast
Heartland Daily Podcast – Sean Parnell: A Shamelessly Uninsured Self-Pay Patient Saving Thousands on Health Care
by Michael Hamilton June 29, 2016The shamelessly uninsured: Michael Hamilton, host of the Health Care News Podcast and managing editor of Health Care News, and Sean Parnell, author of The Self-Pay Patient: Affordable Healthcare Choices in the Age of Obamacare and a former Health Care News managing editor.
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The industrial revolution started in Britain with inventors and entrepreneurs using coal to drive steam engines and make iron and steel. Generations have benefitted.
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Environment/EnergyFeatured
‘Loss of Place’ is Legitimate, Fear of Frac Sand is Not
by Isaac Orr March 21, 2016The mining of sand used for hydraulic fracking has become a controversial issue in communities throughout Western Wisconsin. While many discussions examine the environmental and economic impacts of industrial sand mining, a new paper by an anthropology professor from the University of Wisconsin-Stout attempts to take stock of the social impacts of mining. This paper investigates a phenomenon called “loss of place,” which refers to an emotion people have when they lose a sense of their own identity due to changing physical or societal landscapes.
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The Reciprocity Ensures Streamlined Use of Lifesaving Treatments Act of 2015 (RESULT Act) would fast-track drug and medical device applications through the Food and Drug Administration’s sluggish and costly approval process. The act would streamline new products already vetted by a government agency in another Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development nation with a proven record of providing safe medical devices and pharmaceutical products.