Supreme Court & health care: Speeding is legal – just pay fine through the IRS!
Pretty much any other mandate could be magically converted into a tax by the same sleight of hand – so long as the penalty for violating it is a fine similar to the one that enforces the individual mandate. Continue reading
Supreme Court & health care: Speeding is legal – just pay fine through the IRS!
Pretty much any other mandate could be magically converted into a tax by the same sleight of hand – so long as the penalty for violating it is a fine similar to the one that enforces the individual mandate. Continue reading
California Itching to Lose a Decade
Last week, the California legislature voted to destroy the state’s economy for another decade. The 21 senators who voted for the measure told the public they were approving a high-speed train from Los Angeles to San Francisco, but everyone knows they barely have enough money to build from Fresno to Bakersfield. In voting to borrow […]
Montana Supreme Court’s “History” Turns Out To Be Weak
The Montana Supreme Court won praise for its recitation of history in its recent corporate finance case, Western Tradition Partnership v. Attorney General (later called American Tradition Partnership v. Bulloch). But that was before anyone bothered to check the court’s version of history. Earlier this year, five of the seven state justices held that Montana’s […]
NEA Delegates Fight Their Own Power; Pres. Obama Phones In from Underwater?
While I was gone fishing, the National Education Association had its annual representative assembly. Apparently, nothing took place there like in 2009, when the outgoing NEA general counsel proclaimed the union’s true priorities. Actually, it’s more along the spirit of last year, though, when NEA delegates took both sides in the debate over using value-added […]
Rob Natelson on Supreme Court’s sophistry, why mandatory insurance is not a tax
The rampant sophistry of the SCOTUS decision. Why mandatory insurance is not a tax, and if it is, it’s unconstitutional because it’s a direct tax that is not apportioned among the states. Continue reading
Planning Is Destroying Britain
The Economist reviews housing prices in London, one of the most expensive cities in the world, and what do you know, it finds that high housing prices are due to urban planning. “The biggest constraint on development in London is the Green Belt,” says the magazine that calls itself a newspaper. “Tt runs (with perforations) […]
Would More States Adopt School Choice If I Took Blogging Breaks More Often?
I left you with a school choice summertime smile, took a couple weeks to bask in the sun, only to return to find a host of good news on which to report:
A bipartisan group of New Hampshire legislators overrode their governor’s veto to enact a brand-new tax credit scholarship program — the Cato Institute’s Adam […]
Does Transit Promote Urban Development?
Back in 1995, the FTA asked transit advocates Robert Cervero (of the UC Berkeley planning school) and Samuel Seskins (of Parsons Brinckerhoff) whether transit let to changes in urban form. After reviewing the literature, they concluded that “Urban rail transit investments rarely “create” new growth, but more typically redistribute growth that would have taken place […]
Kopel: Neither Constitution or tax law justifies excise tax for not buying a product
Kopel: “There is literally no constitutional or tax-law precedent for the notion that an individual can be subject to an excise tax merely for choosing not to buy a product.” Continue reading
CO Green dream proves nightmare for taxpayers
GIGAOM reports that, as of last week, General Electric is putting on hold its plan to be a major solar panel manufacturer in Colorado. According to the self-described emerging technology blog GIGAOM: General Electric was set to become a major solar manufacturer when it announced a 400 MW factory in Colorado last year. Over a […]
Obama’s SCOTUS Victory Speech Translated (by John Stossel)
After the Supremes approved Obamacare yesterday, the President gave a speech. John Stossel think it needs de-coding. Continue reading
