Most people don’t like to compete. Athletes sometimes doctor their equipment to gain an edge in winning their games. Politicians gerrymander their districts rather than compete with their opponents for votes. In the case of businesses, many of them go to the government get more profits from taxpayers than they could by competing for consumers....
At least 63 people have been killed with 631 reported missing in the California fires as thousands of firefighters, including 200 sent from Texas as well as other states, battle to contain the blazes. More than 7,000 structures have been destroyed, including up to 90 percent of the homes in Paradise, population 26,682, in Northern...
College athlete and YouTube star Donald De La Haye is an American success story. At the age of 7, Donald immigrated to the United States with his family from Costa Rica. As a teenager, he began posting online unique, creative videos of himself. He also was a skilled athlete, recruited by the University of Central...
When thinking of renewable energy, one often conjures up images of impressive turbines and swaths of land covered in silicon panels and thoughts of technology, progress, and a cleaner, brighter future. Renewables are popularly accepted as the latest and greatest technological improvement in energy. This position, however, is inaccurate. Use of renewable energy can be...
As Dizzy Dean once said, “It ain’t bragging if you done it.” Louisianans should be proud of the criminal justice reforms achieved in the historic Justice Reinvestment Initiative legislation passed on 2017 — reform that has improved public safety, increased funding for victim services, all while saving millions of tax dollars. “Community involvement and support...
Over the river and through the woods – if you can afford it. The holiday season is nearing, and families are starting to think about travel. But visiting grandma could soon be cost-prohibitive, if the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has its way. The IPCC claims in its latest report that action must be taken...
Every month U.S. employers hire nearly 2.5 million new workers as they start new businesses or expand existing ones. But about 2.2 million workers are also laid off, quit or retire, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. This churning of employees being hired and separated is a good thing for the economy, even...
Yesterday, voters in San Francisco approved a $300 million-per-year tax on business earmarked to help the city’s burgeoning homeless population, estimated to number about 7,000 in a city of 884,000. The measure will likely suffer from a double backfire in that it will result in more homelessness while shrinking the city’s tax base. San Francisco’s...
As Satchel Paige famously said, “Don’t look back — something might be gaining on you.” That’s a lesson Texas should take to heart in its upcoming legislative session. Its low-tax policies have made it the nation’s jobs engine for years, but other states are catching on — and maybe even catching up. Texas will need...
The Foundation’s latest research, The Production Tax Credit: Corporate Subsidies & Renewable Energy, shows that wind energy generators received more than $25 billion in tax credits from 2007-2016. Of that, 76 percent—or $19.4 billion—went to only 15 companies. Those companies have a combined market cap of more than $500 billion. See the chart below. It...
In an interview with Axios on HBO, President Donald Trump discussed his plans to discontinue the practice of automatically granting U.S. citizenship to all babies born on U.S. soil. “It was always told to me that you needed a constitutional amendment. Guess what? You don’t,” the President said. “You can definitely do it with an...
The coming year could be a watershed moment for energy policy in the United States. The infamous Production Tax Credit (PTC), a federal subsidy for renewable energy, is set to expire, marking a potential step toward more reliable energy, a freer market and a change in the energy production landscape for the better — should...