The COMPETES Act: A top-down, pork-laden monstrosity
We’ve written before about the COMPETES Act, a massive corporate welfare/industrial policy scheme that a bipartisan gaggle of members of Congress are all too eager to pass before the mid-term…
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…
Want the U.S. to be tops in computer chips? Ditch the subsides and fix the tax code
The Senate approved, with bipartisan support, a measure that would give tax subsidies to semiconductor firms that build new manufacturing plants in the U.S. The moved was touted as bringing…
Tearing down private enterprise to enhance Big Government
Over in the House of Representatives, a bipartisan gaggle of members is putting forward legislation that would force some of the nation’s biggest technology companies to break-up or spin-off certain…
A bipartisan Senate majority endorses a costly, unnecessary industrial policy
The U.S. Senate has decided to go all-in on a new U.S. industrial policy, voting 68-32 to approve a $250 billion package that is supposed to help America stay ahead…
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…
The Biggest Crony Capitalist Game in Town
With Republicans publicly feuding with corporations over state election laws, there was some slight hope that the GOP’s pique might take root just long enough to end the decades-long crony…
Crony Capitalist Deal in Wisconsin Stumbles, but Officials Still Eager to Hand Out Taxpayer Subsidies
The massive crony capitalist deal the state of Wisconsin struck with computer chip maker Foxconn is falling apart because the company isn’t upholding its’ part of the bargain. As such,…
Inflation Could Define our Future
Article from For Liberty by Norm Leahy. The federal government will run its first multi-trillion dollar deficit this year, due largely to massive spending on coronavirus relief, and also in…
Huge Companies Take Stimulus Cash Meant for Small Businesses
Article from The Daily Wire by Joseph Curl. Forget the mom-and-pop shops, big business rules. Huge, publicly traded companies have already sucked up hundreds of millions of dollars from the…
