November 30, 2012
The threat of Congress passing damaging Internet sales tax collection legislation grew larger this week, as Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) has filed his Marketplace Fairness Act as an amendment to an unrelated bill pending before the Senate. I’ve written before about why this bill is such a terrible idea, and about its supporters’ attempts to [...]
November 28, 2012
The Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency, the entity which administers crop insurance for farmers across the country, just released word that premiums are actually going down for a wide range of crops. This is…surprising, given the widespread drought that covered much of the nation this season and led to . In spite of “exceptional” drought [...]
November 27, 2012
Our old colleague at the Heartland Institute, Steve Stanek, has a great piece this week in The Washington Times on the laughably named “Taxpayer Protection Act,” the latest version of the old Beach House Bailout that has been floating around in Congress like so much flotsam ever since the mid-1990s. The bill would create a [...]
November 23, 2012
R Street President Eli Lehrer was interviewed by Andy Simpson of Insurance Journal for IJ’s podcast about the results of the 2012 elections and how they bode for the insurance industry. Among the topics covered are the ongoing implementations of the Dodd-Frank Act and the Affordable Care Act, as well as potential changes to federal [...]
November 22, 2012
Today is Thanksgiving, which usually marks the beginning of the Christmas season. As merry shoppers prepare to brave the fulsome crowds to take advantage of Black Friday deals, we’d like to plug a new e-book that would make for a welcome stuffer to any conservative’s virtual stocking. R Street Associate Fellow and Vice Chairman David [...]
November 21, 2012
The White House and U.S. Department of Homeland Security are expected to come forward in the coming days or weeks with a request to raise the National Flood Insurance Program’s borrowing authority, as the program appears certain to need additional resources to pay all the claims arising out of Hurricane Sandy. Alas, nailing down a [...]
November 15, 2012
With this election winding down to the final provisional and absentee ballot-counting in the seats too close to determine a winner on Election Day, there are a few things to note with interest. Before looking at a few revealing numbers in specific contests, it is important to note a few first-time effects. I don’t know [...]
November 9, 2012
The elections have come and gone and, needless to say, there were a few surprises. Florida, for example, was widely expected to award its 29 electoral votes to Mitt Romney. As of today, the race remains “too close to call” in Florida, but it is believed that President Obama will eventually be declared winner in [...]
November 9, 2012
I recently wrote about what I called the “smoky room” strategy to pass Internet sales tax collection legislation in Congress. I worried out loud about an effort by sponsors of a law that would allow states to impose tax collection requirements on businesses without regard to their physical location to attach their baby to any [...]
November 7, 2012
Though the GOP easily held its majority in both the Texas House and the Senate, Democrats landed major victories to secure their voice will be heard in the upcoming session. Most notably, Democratic Sen. Wendy Davis held off a vigorous challenge by Republican state Rep. Mark Shelton, a pediatrician from the Fort Worth area. In [...]
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