The hidebound and costly thinking on infrastructure
There are any number of reasons to push back against the Biden administration’s $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal, and the remnant that still thinks Washington spends too much money for a…
Mr. Biden’s retroactive taxes
The Biden administration is rolling out its $6 trillion spending package, and buried inside it is a poisonous assumption: that the capital gains tax will have been raised – retroactively…
No, we don’t need a new industrial policy for semiconductors
There’s a shortage of semiconductors in the world that’s affecting large sectors of the economy – from cars to phones and many things in-between. The normal economic response to shortages…
Time to bury a 135 year-old cronyist law at sea
The federal government maintains a thicket of laws from decades ago that have long outlived their usefulness and now serve only to rob the many to enrich the few. Among…
A real reason to distrust big tech: its opposition to right-to-repair laws
There are plenty of bad reasons to dislike how big technology companies do business. But one criticism that should stick – and rankle – is how some tech giants, and…
Getting the incentives right can protect the Prairie Chicken and energy production
The Biden administration is considering extending federal protection to the Lesser Prairie Chicken, a bird that once roamed the Great Plains in unfettered abundance but whose population has dwindled in…
Warren seeks a permanently beefed-up IRS
As part of the Democrats’ push to extract more tax revenue from the “rich,” Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren is backing an idea to give the IRS a permanent budget boost:…
Whitmer’s anti-pipeline crusade will inflict pain across the Midwest and Canada
The ransomware attack that temporarily shut down the Colonial Pipeline showed the nation’s (real) infrastructure is ripe target for criminal gangs and nation states bent on disrupting our economy. But…
State Budgets Overflow With (Borrowed) Federal Relief Funds
A key component of the Biden Administration’s $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan was giving $350 billion or so to state and local governments to plug the coronavirus-related holes in their…
How Millions of Dollars in PPP Loans Went to Phony Farms
It’s no secret that when government unleashes a wave of cash and low- or no-cost loans on the countryside, criminals and grifters will swarm to it. That’s exactly what happened…