78,000 Texas Public Employees Earning $100K or More (Much More)
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. A new report from the government transparency group OpentheBooks.com shows more than 78,000 public officials in Texas are paid more than $100,000 per…
Feds Have Seized More Than $2 Billion From Travelers at Airports
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. A new report from the Institute for Justice found that the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border patrol, among other agencies,…
Go to Jail, and Still Collect a Taxpayer-Funded Pension
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Former Minneapolis police officer Derrick Chauvin, who faces murder charges for the killing of George Floyd, will still be able to receive “his…
Sales Tax Holidays are ‘Political Gimmicks’ That Get in the Way of Real Tax Reform
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Sixteen states have what they call “sales tax holidays” each year. Their goal: to spur purchases of specific goods and services during a…
GOP Offers $1 Trillion Relief Package
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Senate Republicans have unveiled their latest coronavirus relief spending bill — a $1 trillion package that offers much less, to far fewer, than…
Congressional Pig Book Shows Earmarks aking a Comeback
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. The economy may be creaking, the coronavirus roaring, but one thing never ceases to roll on without a care: the congressional pork barrel….
Distillers Offer a Key Economic Lesson to FDA Regulators
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. Something good may yet come out of the massive economic disruption from the coronavirus pandemic — regulators suspending or modifying some rules to…
With Deficit Payments Bigger Than the GDP of Denmark, U.S. Faces Tough Budget Choices
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. An evolving school of economics called Modern Monetary Theory contends government deficits don’t matter. All that red ink, the thinking goes, is irrelevant…
Federal Government Sets New Deficit Records
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. The federal government is racking up the largest monthly and quarterly deficits in history, with the red ink totaling $864 billion for the…
Delivery Truck Fires a Symptom of Bigger Problems at Postal Service
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. The U.S. Postal Service has a problem with its mail trucks. They seem to be bursting into flames, destroying their contents and injuring…