Texas vs. The Beltway: What economic model works best?
It isn’t at all sustainable to assume that each new worker in the private sector could support one new government employee, much less three or four as is the case in Virginia and Maryland.
It isn’t at all sustainable to assume that each new worker in the private sector could support one new government employee, much less three or four as is the case in Virginia and Maryland.
A new research report shows that just 12 policy mistakes at all levels of government add $546 billion a year in consumer costs.
As recently as 2012, the Institute for Justice ranked Texas as having the 17th-most-burdensome low-income occupational licensing requirements in the nation.
The bottom line is simple: colleges do no favors by admitting unqualified students in the quest for politically correct demographic balance.
According to the EPA’s own projections, this costly quest at remaking our power grid will reduce the global temperature by 18 one-thousandths of a degree Celsius by 2100 — well within the margin of error of wildly inaccurate models.
In the end, the Berlin Wall, the most tangible relic of the contest between freedom and the ideology of militarized collectivism, came down without a shot being fired on November 9, 1989.
California students lag 6.3 months behind their peers in learning.
The federal government taxes $0.184 on a gallon of gasoline and $0.244 for diesel with about 40 percent of the $50 billion spent annually going to programs earmarked by Congress, such as urban rail systems.
In 1982 the United States under President Ronald Reagan was massively recapitalizing the military, including America’s nuclear weapons arsenal. The former Soviet Union didn’t like it one bit, and resolved to blunt Reagan’s efforts.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Clean Power Plan (CPP) aims to cut carbon dioxide emissions among America’s electrical power industry by 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 for a total of 871 million tons per year.
The bottom line that few Americans know, given the media’s daily drumbeat of shootings and mayhem, is that violent crime in the U.S. peaked in the early 1990s with the gun homicide rate in particular about half today of what it was a little more than 20 years ago.
Among 106 nations, Taiwan leads the way in patent production per capita over the past decade, followed closely by Japan and the United States.