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Business Subsidies and State Tax Climates
Chris Edwards State and local subsidies and narrow tax breaks for businesses are growing. These benefits—called incentives—include grants, loans, tax…
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Are Government Prohibitions Effective?
Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter Standard economic reasoning suggests that prohibitions reduce the production and consumption of the outlawed good…
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Fourth Circuit: Tax Exempt Status Is Not Federal Financial Assistance
Walter Olson In a pair of cases decided within weeks of each other in 2022, federal judges ruled that private schools’…
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Friday Feature: TwiddleU
Colleen Hroncich Jeana Wilson didn’t plan to get into education. But her daughter has special needs that her local school…
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101 Late Fees Charged by the Government
Nicholas Anthony Under the Biden administration, the government has launched an all‐out “war on junk fees.” This “war” has covered…
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Immersive Outreach Programs May Be a Better Investment than DEI Initiatives
Erec Smith Recently, the University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted, unanimously, to divert money from its Diversity,…
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FERC’s Order No. 1920: A Costly Shell Game
Travis Fisher Disclaimer: I served as a staff economist at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 2006 to 2013 and as a commissioner…
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Seventy Years after Brown, the Goal Must Be Liberty
Neal McCluskey and Colleen Hroncich On May 17, 1954, something necessary but not sufficient for American liberty happened: The US…
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The “Zombification” of Qualified Immunity?
Clark Neily “I have a theory: Qualified immunity has already been bitten by one of the walkers in the Walking Dead,…
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NPR Digs into CBDCs
Nicholas Anthony Governments around the world are weighing whether to launch central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs. But are CBDCs…
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