Hiding behind food price inflation: government taxes
Price inflation has a lot of ingredients. But one that doesn’t get enough attention, but is a contributing factor behind those higher food bills, is government taxes. As Reason’s Baylen…
No surprise: inflation will be an issue in the 2022 elections
Spiking prices for food, fuel, housing and a lot more have a way of shaking up the political world, and this recent spate of inflation data is no exception. And…
When all else fails, blame price gougers
Call it a sign that the Biden administration is desperate to change the narrative on rising gas prices, or call it economic illiteracy, either way, the president’s demand that the…
Biden’s union-only EV push
The big social spending bill Congress is debating has a long list of potential winners and losers – if we assume “winning” includes getting a massive federal subsidy. Subsidies for…
How Congress plays favorites
The bipartisan congressional war against its current favorite bogeyman – Big Tech – has told us a lot about the politicians waging it. While some are simply out of their…
L.A.’s war on ketchup
Few local politicians are able to keep up the fight to save the planet and stay on the bleeding edge of performance art legislating. But in Los Angeles, the local…
The billionaires’ tax matters to everyone
It’s not popular to be against a tax that would affect only the very richest people. And while the wealth tax for billionaires the Democrats floated few days ago appears…
Voters just say “no” to stadium welfare
One particularly galling example of corporate welfare is the practice of sports teams convincing local governments to use taxpayer dollars and other publicly-funded goodies to build private stadiums. The selling…
The Supreme Court’s supreme dodge
The Supreme Court has refused to revisit its doctrine of qualified immunity, under which government officials, including law enforcement, are protected from lawsuits for violating individual’s constitutional rights. As Radley…
How civil asset forfeiture undermines law enforcement
What happens when a small town police force discovers it can make bank through a government program intended to stifle drug crimes? You get a bad case of civil asset…