Taxes & Spending
How You Will Bail Out State Pension Systems
Huge government retirement savings accounts run by liberal politicians—what could possibly go wrong?
September 30, 2016
Economy
Why Does California Have The Nation’s Highest Poverty Rate?
California’s true poverty rate is an eye-popping 20.6 percent—the highest in the nation. Proportionately, California’s Supplemental poverty rate is 38 percent higher than Texas’—something that should be a source of embarrassment for the home of Hollywood, the Silicon Valley and the nation’s highest marginal income tax rate.
September 28, 2016
Higher Education
Federal Aid To Higher Education Hurts More Than Helps
Substantially increased federal support to higher education has encouraged two things: a corresponding decline in state spending concomitant with an erosion of higher education’s accountability to lawmakers, taxpayers, and students.
September 16, 2016
Energy & Environment
California’s Cap-And-Trade Program Is Sick And Will Take High-Speed Rail Down With It
But the cap-and-trade market is showing dangerous signs of weakness. Not only have auction revenues collapsed in the last two auctions in May and August, but the competitive landscape for the auctions has collapsed as well.
August 25, 2016
Criminal Justice
Don’t mess with Texas’ crime statistics
Texas crime rates are at historic lows and its incarceration rates are heading lower, mainly due to a shift in treatment of non-violent offenders, which leaves more room in state lockups for the violent. These successful criminal justice reforms have resulted in improved public safety and a lower cost to taxpayers.
August 17, 2016
Economy
Hollywood moguls, crony corporatists, politicians and the powerless taxpayers who pay for it all
The most-populous state is giving the largest entertainment company the biggest ever film subsidy—what could go wrong?
August 4, 2016
Taxes & Spending
Coming Tax Hikes For Government Pensions, How Much Will You Pay?
Without pension system reform, government increasingly risks being seen by taxpayers as little more than a public employee pension system collection agency
July 22, 2016
Energy & Environment
New Theory: CO2 And Climate Linked — But Not In The Way The ‘Consensus’ Tells Us
If the global warming alarmists are correct, rising CO2 could lead to runaway planetary warming while conversely, low CO2 levels would result in runaway cooling
June 30, 2016
Energy & Environment
California’s bullet train on the track to extinction
Today California's High-Speed Rail boondoggle is at least 50 percent over budget and, if ever built as marketed, likely far more, and doesn't have "matching private and federal funding" as promised.
June 25, 2016
Economy
New White House overtime rule slams conservative states
Rather than pay 50% more for labor that isn’t 50% more productive, business owners are likely to instead hire more part time workers or ask more productive—and higher paid workers—to fill the gap.
May 18, 2016
Energy & Environment
How fracking saved renewable energy in California
But by 2014, Texas consumers were paying 14 percent less for their electricity, on average, than the rest of the nation. Market deregulation was a success.
May 12, 2016
Economy
Think Tankers Take the “Bubble Quiz”
America's ongoing turmoil is partly fueled by the growing distrust between the cloistered elites and the rest of the nation.
April 26, 2016