Thursday, March 28, 2024

Reports Expose Downsides Of Economic Development Ploys

While we’re on the subject of governments and their spending addictions... let’s not forget another contributor to the red ink: corporate welfare. This is a...

The True Cost Of Government-Subsidized Green Energy

Realistic observers of the various federal, state and local mandates to switch from oil and gas to an all-renewable energy economy have wondered how...

Democrats Reveal Ambitious Plans To Make Inflation Reduction Act Even Worse

The ill-named Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) has marked its first anniversary of promising subsidies galore for those who want to get in on the...

The Inconvenient Truth Behind Biden’s Clean Energy Decree

The Biden administration created a gold rush, of sorts, when it set up a program to hand out tens of billions of dollars in public...

Ruby Red Tennessee Puts Locals On The Hook For Lavish NFL Stadium

While the national pols go through their elaborate dance over the debt ceiling, let’s check in on a group of local politicians who, just...

An Inconvenient Truth: Elon Musk’s Government-Subsidized Hypocrisy

National Public Radio left Twitter recently because it says the social media company’s decision to label it as “state-affiliated media” hurts its “credibility” and...

Democrats Kick-Start Renewable Energy Subsidy Arms Race

Industrial policy is all the rage in official policy circles, with the U.S. leading the way owing to the comically ill-named “Inflation Reduction Act.”...

Subsidies Sparking Interest in Electric Vehicles Come With Unexpected Restrictions

The federal government is intent on helping to expand electric vehicle sales, so much so it’s willing to hand out billions of dollars of...

Trump’s ‘America First’ Vision Has Been Co-Opted

Government intervention in markets is not new, and it is very much a bipartisan affair. But large-scale industrial policies like those the Biden administration...

Republicans Back Away From Bipartisan Boondoggle

The federal government’s proposed $52 billion program to subsidize domestic production of semiconductors appears to be in trouble. And that has the otherwise highly...
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