The controversial California state budget signed by Governor Brown included 200 million dollars in expected revenue from a new tax of internet sales in California. As a result, Amazon immediately terminated its relationship with all of its California affilliates, preventing the collection of tax and actually resulting in a reduction of income (and thus income tax) [...]
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I am starting to wonder whether our universities have developed a whole new discipline of “political science”: The study of how to influence political policy by manipulating science.
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That is the argument I make in the soon to be published article in the WMA Reporter. Rather than spending billions on wasteful goverment programs, the government should just stay out of the way and let the free market work.
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On May 7th, the City of Los Angeles took the first of two votes necessary to adopt a moratorium on the annual CPI adjustments for properties under rent control, according to the LA Times. The justification for the decision is that renters suffering under difficult economic times cannot afford to have their rents increased to [...]
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Growing up in California, I recall being amused by the ”Welcome to California, Now Go Home” bumper sticker. I don’t see those bumper stickers anymore. I wouldn’t be surprised to see a “Welcome Californian, Now Go Home” bumper sticker in places like Texas and Arizona, where many California citizens and California businesses have fled. Two major news [...]
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The California State Game and Planning Commission is considering banning fishing of some parts of the California coast, including Laguna Beach, reports the Orange County Register. Do people who make a living in the fishing industry have a right to continue that livelihood? If the government is going to take away that right, should they [...]
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Global warming fanatics versus environmental fanatics. Who will win? Sadly, its all of us who pay taxes that lose.
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This article on rent control in India is a few years old, but the points it makes about the impact of rent control are timeless.
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Regulations frequently lead to unanticipated results. Enacting legislation without a thorough analysis of its probable impact, intended and otherwise, leads to bizarre results.
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The politicization of science has scary implications for property rights. Indeed, the religion of man made global warming has practically no limit on its reach. On April 17, 2009, the Obama administration announced the EPA’s formal finding that carbon dioxide and several other greenhouse gases “endanger” public health and welfare as a landmark and long overdue step toward [...]
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