Events - Independence Institute

Bootleggers, Baptists, and the Clean Energy Transition 0
- December 8, 2023
Independence Institute has a long track record of warning against the unhealthy incentives that can arise from the relationship between monopoly electric utilities and green policymakers. Once viewed as rivals of one another, the two sides realized a few years back that coexisting as fellow travelers on the road to the so-called clean energy transition
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Sustainable Colorado Budget to Help Eliminate State Income Taxes 0
- December 8, 2023
In 1992, Colorado voters adopted the Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR) to limit the growth in state and local spending. Over the past three decades, however, politicians from both parties and a complicit judicial branch have exempted more and more state spending from the TABOR limit. When voters adopted TABOR, 67% of state spending was
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What Does the Constitution Mean by “Natural Born Citizen?”0
- December 4, 2023
The record shows that the Constitution’s meaning of “natural born” is complicated, but clear-cut
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Green Industrial Policy Faces Threats of its Own Creation 0
- November 27, 2023
The early supply-side sugar high induced by a raft of clean energy-related subsidies is starting to show signs of wearing off. From electric vehicle makers to offshore wind developers, producers spurred along by the Biden administration’s ambitious green energy goals and lavish tax incentives have suddenly been forced to confront pesky market forces that have started to cool
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Why I Still Doubt the 2020 Election 0
- November 27, 2023
Sixty years of political experience have taught me that secular leftists, unlike most traditional conservatives and liberals, often do not play by the rules.
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John F. Kennedy, RIP Part II, With a Brief Parallel to Joe Biden 0
- November 22, 2023
JFK was, in some ways, the author of the currently overgrown and dysfunctional federal bureaucracy.
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