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Louisiana Senator Russell Long famously explained how most people feel about taxes: “Don’t tax you; don’t tax me; tax that fellow behind the tree.”

As Amazon milks the very last pennies from the multi-billion-dollar tax breaks Arlington, Virginia is giving Amazon for its half of the second headquarters – Amazon will all over again start looking for a new location to be bribed into making its new HQ. 

A New York City ban on styrofoam for food service is a costly and wasteful way to soothe wealthy liberals’ consciences.

The first driverless car pedestrian fatality occurred recently in Arizona, almost two years after the first fatal crash.  These tragic fatalities signal the ongoing development of this technology. 

The available data prove the federal government’s involvement in the education of America’s children has not substantially improved student achievement.

Federal air quality rules must be based on science – not used to stifle energy and industry.

The “people’s climate march” was notable for the amazing energy, economic and climate illiteracy displayed by the mostly young people parading along New York City streets September 21.

It is time to put an end to climate summits. On the evidence, they are not needed.

He saved his worst ban for last. Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s nanny-state policies have left a trail of damage. His defeated soda ban, the ban on food donations to homeless shelters and other antics have cost New Yorkers money, jobs, food choices, and even their freedom to give charity.

Greg Gutfeld is angry, and rightly so, because “vaping” electronic cigarettes is harmless to anyone around them.

Mayor Bloomberg’s going out with one last ban. The City Council, with the administration’s strong backing, is rushing through a law to treat the vapor from e-cigarettes like tobacco smoke under the city’s “Smoke-Free Air Act.” The use of e-cigs, ­a k a “vaping,” would be forbidden in indoor and outdoor locations wherever smoking is banned.

In this podcast, Mike LaFaive of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy discusses in greater detail his article on the Heartlander titled “A Tax Hike Al Capone Could Have Loved”. In…

Even if Randi Weingarten isn’t NYC’s next school chancellor, she might as well be.