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…
A Third of Lifetime Income Lost to Taxes on Average, but up to Half in Some States
Most people grumble about the taxes they pay. Whether it’s on income, property, sales, or some other form of tax, we pay a lot – seemingly more every day. But…
L.A.’s Six-Figure Lifeguards
It’s not clear whether this is an example of President Joe Biden’s repeated vow to create good-paying private-sector union jobs. But it most certainly is an example of how some…
Biden’s Plan for a ‘New Suburban Entitlement’
The Biden administration has made clear it wants to expand government, costs be damned. Included in those plans is a new child care entitlement that is designed to hand government…
The Other, Bigger Pipeline Story you may Have Missed
The ransomware attack on the Colonial Pipeline put into sharp focus just how vulnerable our real infrastructure is to criminal gangs and malicious state actors. But aside from the images…
States Put Enhanced Unemployment Benefits to the Test
The United States is about to engage in a real-time economic experiment that federalism is making possible. The issue to be tested: whether the federal government’s more generous unemployment benefits…