R Street’s Competition Policy program addresses government barriers that hurt businesses and people. Generally, we support market-oriented policy solutions that enhance free enterprise, consumer choice and public well-being. To this end, our team focuses primarily on occupational licensing, alcohol policy, shipping and postal policy, health care disintermediation and regulatory reform.
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This administration can’t make up its mind about alcohol. Sometimes it brags that the industry is thriving. Sometimes it acts like the business needs a government intervention.
Last year President…
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From Reason:
“Occupational licensing reform is having its moment,” Shoshana Weissmann wrote last November for the R Street Institute even before recent changes and new evidence that easing…
Dear Mr. Hivner,
We at the R Street Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan public policy organization focused on advancing limited, effective government in a variety of areas, write in support of the…
From WWL:
Dr. Christi Smith joins Tommy to talk about marijuana and the legalization of it in the US.
California followed many states in passing a to-go cocktail bill last year that, despite its flaws, offered a lifeline for struggling restaurants as the COVID-19 pandemic kept people away from public…
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, New Jersey refused to allow breweries to deliver their brews to people’s houses, even though taprooms were forced to close on account of stay-at-home orders. Now,…
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