We work extensively on both state and national policy, focusing on issues that other groups tend to neglect. Our specialty is in tackling issues that are complex, but don’t necessarily grab major headlines. These are the areas where we think we can have a real impact.
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Publications
Public Servants Or The Public’s Masters?
Steven Greenhut
California’s cities, counties, and public agencies have secured a record tax windfall in recent years, as property tax collections soar, yet they continue to cry poor-mouth. There’s not enough…
San Fran’s New Prohibitionists
Steven Greenhut
San Francisco politicians and civic leaders love to think of themselves as cutting-edge free spirits who are so much more tolerant than the rubes found in America’s hinterlands. Hey, we have San…
Georgia Must Cement Bail Reform Progress
Marc Hyden
Cash bail as we know it may be slowly becoming a thing of the past here in Georgia. Last year, then-Gov. Nathan Deal signed a bill permitting judges to take defendants’ income into account when…
Kamala Harris reimagines herself as a ‘progressive prosecutor’
Steven Greenhut
For most presidential candidates, the path to the White House is a decades-long process of rising through the political ranks, building alliances and raising money. A few candidates might wake up and…
Bernie Sanders Lived Through Decades Of Socialist Failure, But He Didn’t Learn Much
Marc Hyden
“We need a political revolution,” Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders announced last month while stumping for what has become known as “democratic socialism.”
While the term means different…
Are unions about to destroy our favorite businesses?
Steven Greenhut
Free-market economists love to talk about “creative destructive.” Brilliant new ideas flourish and creative entrepreneurs find better ways to serve customers. Encrusted, poor-performing…
State GOP Learns to Love Big Brother
Steven Greenhut
“How do you tell a communist?” asked Ronald Reagan, in one of his best-known quotations. “Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It’s…
Recently, the Texas Workforce Commission approved a controversial new rule for gig-economy workers that changes regulations for app-based companies that hire contractors — particularly affecting…
June 26, 2019
Assembly Committee on Insurance
California Assembly
RE: SB 290 Natural disasters – Insurance and related alternative risk-transfer products
Chairman…
Georgia Needs Creative Solutions to Combat the Opioid Crisis
Marc Hyden
Over 400,000 Americans have died from opioid abuse, be it heroin or synthetic prescriptions, since 1999. To put this death toll into perspective, roughly the same number of Americans perished in…