Occupational licenses may not seem like a hot topic, but with 29 percent of all jobs in the United States now requiring some form of license, the time has come to take a long and hard look at the heavy costs of these licenses on the economy and Texans.
This allows law enforcement to wholly sidestep any legal protections guaranteed by the state.
We know from the Collegiate Learning Assessment that 36 percent of college students across the country, after four years in education, show little to no increase in critical thinking or complex reading and writing skills.
Limiting the global oil supply by prohibiting sale of domestically produced oil keeps global oil prices artificially high.
Yet the American left, led by the Obama administration’s attack on energy markets, is trying to turn America’s prosperity into European-style poverty.
All this reveals how little control states have over Medicaid.
In Texas, wind’s performance at times of peak demand has a capacity factor of only 8.6 percent.
The bottom line: it isn’t easy being green—it’s downright costly.
Private property rights are America’s least partisan and most hallowed tradition, a defining characteristic of our free society. But those rights are increasingly coming under attack by Texas cities employing forced annexation policies.
Let’s cut to the chase: “green” energy projects funded by the government with taxpayer dollars are doomed to fail and must end.
The evidence is clear that the Texas model of low taxes, no individual income tax, less regulation, and a good lawsuit climate promotes economic prosperity and individual liberty.
Though the EPA and the White House would have you believe that glacial melt is a result of human development over the last 60 years, this natural phenomenon is not novel, nor is it caused by man-made carbon dioxide.