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Not Even Low-Income Workers Can Count on Coming Out Ahead under ObamaCare

Jillian Kay Melchior reports that some low-income workers could end up paying a lot more for health insurance than they would have paid before ObamaCare became law. ObamaCare requires employer-provide More...

To Do: Get the Word Out That Employees Have Options

• Get ready for National Employee Freedom Week, “a national effort to inform union employees of the freedom they have regarding opting out of union membership and making the decision about union membe More...

Meta-localypse Now?

Does the National Security Agency have all the secrets of our personal lives through its collection of metadata about phone and Internet communications? Not really. As Roger Pilon and Richard Epstein More...

Wrong Way Snowden

Edward Snowden, leaker of the secrets of the National Security Agency, now resides in Hong Kong. As many commentators have pointed out, whatever other secrets reside in Snowden’s head will eventually More...

Medicaid Expansion Is a Trap for Patients and Taxpayers

ObamaCare’s offer of 100 percent funding for states to expand Medicaid eligibility up to 133 percent of the poverty level is proving to be a tempting offer. Even some Republican governors are lining u More...

Why Does the Federal Government Subsidize Farming?

If the point of farm programs is to make farmers better off than most American taxpayers, then they are performing that mission very well. This graphic is from a new paper by Vincent Smith: An More...

We Resemble that Remark

From Roger Ailes’s speech on accepting the Bradley Prize this week: Of course, the country’s split politically. Democrats and Republicans can’t get along. And it is hard to figure out if it is ever More...

State: Take Our Campaign Finance Laws to Court, and We’ll Sock You with Our Campaign Finance Laws

Defending First Amendment rights now counts as electioneering speech that can be limited under campaign finance laws. That, anyway, is the theory of Washington State’s Public Disclosure Commission. L More...

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Creating a Fair Property Tax System: Is it Possible?

Source: Public Interest Institute

Currently in the state of Iowa we have over 2,000 “taxing authorities” when it comes to property taxes. This definitely adds to the complex mess of that property tax system. Another problem with our system is the “rollbacks.” This system, which was supposed to More...

The Many Real Dangers of Soaring National Debt

Source: The Heritage Foundation

Federal government debt has nearly doubled since President Barack Obama took office. Under existing policies federal debt is projected to increase another 50 percent over the next decade and then rise rapidly thereafter. As federal debt has soared, so have con More...

Soaring National Debt Remains a Grave Threat

Source: The Heritage Foundation

Federal government debt has nearly doubled since President Barack Obama took office and is projected to increase 50 percent over the next decade—and then rise rapidly thereafter—under existing policies. As federal debt has soared, so have concerns about Americ More...

Moving the Road Sector into the Market Economy

Source: Institute of Economic Affairs

Transport policies which favor rail over road make little economic sense. Investment in roads typically yields higher financial and social returns than investment in rail. As a result of current policies, Britain’s roads are the most crowded in Europe. Congest More...

Improving Incentives for Federal Land Managers: The Case for Recreation Fees

Source: Cato Institute

In 2004, Congress allowed federal land managers to charge recreation fees only for certain kinds of recreation. In general, while national parks and wildlife refuges can charge entry fees, managers of other federal lands can only charge for developed recreatio More...

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Conservative Calendar

Tuesday Jun 18

Acton University......at
Grand Rapids

Thursday Jun 20

Competitive Enterprise Institute 2013 Dinner and Reception......at
J.W. Marriott Washington 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue

Thursday Jul 04

42nd National Fourth of July Conservative Soiree......at
Bull Run Regional Park in Centreville

Thursday Jul 18

2nd Annual Salute to Our Heroes Gala......at
Dana Point

Sunday Jul 28

Cato University 2013......at
Cato Institute