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Budgets/TaxesFeaturedGovernment
Trump’s Infrastructure Plan: Making Infrastructure Great Again?
by Darren Brady Nelson February 21, 2018The President of the United States (POTUS), Donald Trump, once again publicly talked about his “bold”, “new” and “transformative” infrastructure plan in his recent State of the Union (SOTU) speech.
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Government
Government And Crony Contractors – You’d Better Shop Around
by Seton Motley February 9, 2018President Donald Trump inherited a whole lot of awful Barack Obama policy.
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Americans seem to have a problem saving for retirement. This problem has implications for our own lives and for employer-provided pension plans.
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Politics
Please Save Us From The Government ‘Helping’ Us: Texas Wind ‘Energy’ Edition
by Seton Motley April 29, 2017The very famous Ronald Reagan line is: “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” He wasn’t even a little incorrect.
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Budgets/TaxesRegulation
Occupational Licensing Reform Gives More Americans a Shot at Success
by Jesse Hathaway March 27, 2017Government regulations are keeping young people down at the expense of established, older generations. Instead of using occupational licensing rules to protect their cronies from competition, lawmakers should reform.
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Some municipalities around the country have tried, and failed to set up or operate their own broadband communications networks, to compete in the business of broadband service. The reasons for the failures are numerous, but in all cases taxpayer money was put at risk often without approval of taxpayers and often wasted.
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Economics
Shocker: Government Bureaucrats Don’t Understand Business Or Economics
by Seton Motley December 17, 2016It is one of the many, many reasons our nation’s Founding Fathers profoundly limited government. They trusted businessmen much more than they trusted government bureaucrats.
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FeaturedInternet/Telecom
Comments to the FCC Regarding Privacy and Broadband
by Bartlett Cleland June 3, 2016The FCC’s proposed privacy rule in no way will lead to the stated goal of protecting consumers. In fact, the logical and obvious result of the proposal is to create a confusing thicket of government privacy rules emanating from both the FCC and FTC which will lead consumer confusion and likely real harm.