As with the ongoing student loan/college tuition fiasco, subsidizing demand with taxpayer money without first allowing supply to increase is only a recipe for a costly, overheated market
The administration's goal is to force states to replace their current mix of low cost, reliable energy fuels with a higher cost mix of renewables that are largely dependent on the weather.
Fueling Freedom Project Director Doug Domenech was interviewed by Brad Jackson on Coffee and Markets to discuss upcoming EPA rules.
The co-mingling of finances and rule-making in programs like Medicaid has split accountability between state and federal authorities, with dismal results.
Failure to obtain the appropriate license can result in 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine.
Such a bold proclamation would surely make news, would get the universities’ attention, and, just possibly, might prod a movement to restore the academic freedom on which America’s intellectual and political progress depend.
The Texas Legislature should continue to take steps to limit spending, reduce regulation, expand trade globally, and cut taxes so that the success of the Texas model will continue to benefit all Texans.
Allowing freer markets to allocate resources with fewer international trade restrictions and pro-growth public policies that have been successful in Texas should be a model for other states and nations.
If growing wealth inequality is not an issue of the 1% but rather an issue of excessive home equity increases because of government land-use restrictions that restrict the supply of new housing, it changes the debate considerably.
There is no wiggle room for give and take on the EPA’s seizure of the electric power sector.
There’s a wave of dystopia infecting cities across Texas that one-size-fits-all wages will solve workers cries for a “living wage.” It’s not what you think though. Their proposals are to increase only municipal worker wages, they leave out private sector workers who apparently don’t matter as much. Or, maybe city officials understand the costs that...
Will [San Antonio] residents see a 13.3 percent increase in the value of their city service [after raising the minimum wage]? Probably not.