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State Issues, Taxes

Legal Sports Betting Scores Big With Taxpayers

July 8, 2019 staff

The year 2019 has been a landmark year for sports betting, with one in four Americans living in a state where the practice is legal. Since the 2018 Supreme Court ruling overturning the federal prohibition, states are now permitted to pass sports betting legislation. After the decision, 17 states have fully embraced the ruling, while others have rejected or […]

Energy, Environment, State Issues

New York’s Green New Deal Faces Some Inconvenient Truths

July 8, 2019 staff

On June 19, 2019, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo indicated he would be willing to sign the Climate and Community Protection Act into law. The long-term goal of the plan is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 85 percent by 2050, with benchmark goals including renewable energy powering 70 percent of the state by 2030  […]

Education, State Issues

Greedy Administrators are the Real Reason Why Baltimore’s Education System is Crumbling

July 8, 2019 staff

The city of Baltimore’s schools are badly failing, despite spending more per capita than almost anywhere in the country.  To understand why, one needs only to look where the money is going: into the pockets of crooked public education administrators. Baltimore pays its administrators more than anywhere else in the nation, ranking first among all […]

The American Medical Association’s Shaky Stance on Socialized Medicine
Healthcare, PBM, PBMs, Pharmacy Benefits Manager

The American Medical Association’s Shaky Stance on Socialized Medicine

July 8, 2019 staff

As the American Medical Association’s (AMA) shrinking membership tilts further and further to the left, real questions need to be asked about the organization’s influence over the Medicare for All debate.  After the AMA resisted Medicare in 1966, roughly 70 percent of doctors were registered members of the group.  During the Clinton era, the AMA […]

Postal Reform Should Be Passed by the Senate
Postal Service

USPS Struggles with Finding and Measuring Efficiencies

July 3, 2019 Leslie Paige

Math is hard.  Especially when it comes to the USPS and its attempts to save money.

Taxpayers' Independence Day
General Waste, Oversight, Taxes, Technology, Telecommunications

Taxpayers’ Independence Day

July 3, 2019 Thomas Schatz

The American people received an early Independence Day present on July 1 when President Trump signed into law H.R. 3151, the Taxpayer First Act of 2019.

General Waste, Healthcare, PBM, PBMs, Pharmacy Benefits Manager, Taxes

Hang Onto Your Wallets … And Your Freedom

June 29, 2019 Elizabeth Wright

Listening to the Democratic presidential debates these past two days has been alarming.  Pandering to specific groups, the candidates are prepared to have the federal government cover the costs for a myriad of programs.  The New York Times wrote, “The Democrats’ two nights of debates showed that liberalism is on the march in the party. […]

Budget

Lawmakers Who Want to Boost the Middle Class Should Focus on Lowering the Debt

June 27, 2019 ajohnson

This week, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released its 2019 Long-Term Outlook which corroborated that the United States current rate of spending is unsustainable. CBO warns the nation’s mounting debt heightens the risk of a fiscal crisis and will slow income growth, place upward pressure on interest rates, and weaken the ability to respond to […]

No More Vaping in San Francisco?
Healthcare, PBM, PBMs, Pharmacy Benefits Manager, State Issues

No More Vaping in San Francisco?

June 26, 2019 Elizabeth Wright

The Los Angeles Times’s June 24 editorial, “San Francisco’s E-cigarette Ban Isn’t Just Bad Policy, it’s Bad for Public Health” is right on target. Today, San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote on banning the sales of electronic tobacco products, or e-cigarettes, within the city until the Food and Drug Administration adopts regulations […]

Seattle's Soda Tax Fails to Live Up to Its Promises
State Issues, Taxes

Seattle’s Soda Tax Fails to Live Up to Its Promises

June 21, 2019 staff

In Seattle, free college, youth education programs, and job training are the latest “soda tax” battle cries. Unfortunately for consumers, these are promises that are made to be broken. In the city, a case of Gatorade used to cost a Seattleites $15.99 in 2017 but now costs $26.33. While this would appear to be a […]

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