PropertyCasualty360 • May 15, 2013
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From PropertyCasualty360: Ray Lehmann, a senior fellow at the R Street Institute, a Washington conservative think tank, says, “We are pleased to see that a decade of hard work to achieve substantial reform of the NFIP won’t be undone by a unanimous consent amendment process to an unrelated bill.” As to the plight of residents of Plaquemines [...]
Rep. Tom Petri • May 15, 2013
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From Rep. Tom Petri: “As the largest subsidy to farmers, crop insurance is in dire need of reforms to make the program more targeted and accountable to taxpayers,” said Andrew Moylan, Senior Fellow with the R Street Institute. “The AFFIRM Act does exactly that by establishing a modest payment limit and means test, by reducing [...]
Climate Crocks • May 15, 2013
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From Climate Crocks: Below, a piece titled ‘You Might Just Like a Carbon Tax”, by Ike Brannon. Ike Brannon is senior fellow and director of research at the R Street Institute. R Street was founded by Eli Lehrer, a former staffer at the climate denialist Heartland Institute. R Street accepts the science of global climate, [...]
Christian Post • May 15, 2013
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From the Christian Post: With the House bill at $940 billion and the Senate version costing $955 billion, “there is certainly not another single bill that Congress will pass this year that spends that kind of money,” Andrew Moylan, outreach director and senior fellow at the R Street Institute, told The Christian Post on Tuesday. [...]
PropertyCasualty360 • May 14, 2013
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From PropertyCasualty360: R.J. Lehmann, a senior fellow at the R Street Institute, a conservative think tank, says the House Farm Bill is even more generous than the Senate version. He says, according to projections from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the House bill would increase federal spending on crop insurance by $8.91 billion over the [...]
The State Journal-Register • May 10, 2013
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From The State Journal-Register: The R Street Institute, a conservative policy group based in Washington, D.C., said the bill also wipes out geographic limits on state taxing authority. Opponents argue there are alternatives for fair collection of taxes.
U.S. News • May 9, 2013
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From U.S. News: To be certain, origin sourcing is no “silver bullet,” as my former colleague Andrew Moylan, now with R Street Institute, explained in a 2012 essay: It would still require additional action to keep taxpayers from bearing heavier loads. Switching to origin sourcing would effectively expand the tax base, so state legislators must [...]
PropertyCasualty360 • May 8, 2013
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From PropertyCasualty360: Jimi Grande, senior vice president of federal and political affairs for the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies voiced deep concern over the amendment, as did R.J. Lehmann, a senior fellow at the R Street Institute, a conservative think tank based in Washington. …“The NFIP has been offering flood insurance at below-risk rates [...]
Wall St. Cheat Sheet • May 8, 2013
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From Wall St. Cheat Sheet: The conservative R Street Institute has brought up the possibility of enforcing sales tax collection for these e-retailers, but applying it based on the rates of the state where the retailer is based, rather than where the customer is based. To work out this sort of change in the bill, [...]
Townhall.com • May 7, 2013
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From Townhall.com: Andrew Moylan of the R Street Institute ran down some of the major problems with the bill and detailed some of the straw men arguments used by the tax legislation’s proponents
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