government

Social distancing is the prescribed solution to the COVID-19 pandemic. Did we ever consider the other options?

What will the long-term effects of the coronavirus be? Darren Brady Nelson breaks it down and compares it to prohibition era bootlegging.

Illinois state representative Camille Lilly recently sponsored a bill to restrict self-service gasoline stations. New Jersey and Oregon already ban self-service gas, although Oregon exempts rural counties. Would creating jobs for gas station attendants be good economics?

We like taxing businesses because they appear rich.  Yet the question of who truly pays business taxes is very complicated. 

Regardless of your view on impeachment, the hearings have exposed the breathtaking size and scope of the U.S. government’s bureaucratic arm.

The nation has averted a so-called “public health crisis,” but that hasn’t stopped lawmakers from playing doctor.

In 2008, Rahm Emanuel, then-president-elect Barack Obama’s newly named chief of staff, uttered the infamous phrase: “You never let a serious crisis go to waste.”

Government paternalism consists not only of giving people things they didn’t pay for, but also in preventing people from making decisions that, in the benevolent judgment of superintending bureaucrats, aren’t in their best interest.

Heartland’s Donald Kendal and Justin Haskins are joined by Jim Lakely and Isaac Orr in episode #198 of the In The Tank Podcast. This episode features work from The Heritage Foundation, the Pacific Research Institute, and the Reason Foundation.

Government often seems quite adept at solving yesterday’s problems, building or protecting systems that are irrelevant today.

“First comes freedom,” said Pete Buttigieg while announcing his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president on April 14. 

Wisdom is eternal.  Because it is so rare a commodity it is treasured by all who actually like and respect all that is good.

The tense and seemingly polarized political environment in America today has raised the issue of whether there is some way to reduce the ideological and government-policy conflicts by finding some middle way between the “extremist” positions.