Few Americans would expect posting online about car engines, fertilizer, or general engineering principles to land them in prison.
Instead, premiums have gone up since the passage of the ACA—by some estimates, the increase in national health spending under Obamacare will amount to an average premium increase for a family of four of $7,450.
Having a job at any wage rate is better than being unemployed without wage income.
The onerous regulations set such an impossible limit threshold for emissions that many coal-fired plants will be forced to retire, eliminating jobs at these plants and likely raising the price of electricity. EPA’s Integrated Planning Model (IPM), based on the budget proposed for Texas, projects the retirement of 24 of the 41 coal-fired units in Texas alone (reflecting 12,760 MWs of the 25,302 MW nameplate capacity of the Texas coal fleet).
Until then, the Renewable Age is a reversion to the pre-industrial era when human life was far poorer, painful, and short.
The Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) will host a “Wage Wars: An Interactive Economic Experiment” TOMORROW, Thursday, July 30, at 3:00 p.m. in the Red McCombs Event Center at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The event will be held in honor of Milton Friedman Legacy Day and explores how government-mandated minimum wage salaries affect employers and employees alike.
The 3 million workers earning at or below the minimum wage today, which is less than 5 percent of all workers paid hourly, deserve more than to be mandated toward unemployment and on the government’s dole.
Interstate compacts are also highly effective in resisting and shielding against federal overreach. The Interstate Power Compact would protect states’ systems of electric generation from the unconstitutional expansion of federal power.
When evaluating the financial health and well-being of Texas’ public pension systems, the Pension Review Board (PRB), the state agency charged with overseeing state and local retirement systems, considers a plan’s amortization period to be best measure.
Over the last few decades, a majority of private sector employers have abandoned defined benefit (DB) pension plans, which guarantee beneficiaries a lifetime of monthly benefits irrespective of the fund’s fiscal health, in favor of defined contribution (DC) plans, which are individual accounts that employers and employees can make contributions into.
Instead of federal tax credits and lawsuits trying to force what the market won’t or can’t do because of zoning and other restrictions, what if property owners were simply allowed to develop their property in a reasonable way?
With the City of Houston facing such large and growing problems, now is the time to make bold and lasting reforms.