By Kenneth Artz, Heartland Environment and Climate News The Texas legislature took steps to stop a massive Chinese-owned industrial wind facility from being built near Laughlin Air Force base in southwest Texas. The Blue Hills Wind development attracted attention because its developer, GH America Energy, is the U.S. subsidiary of the Chinese […]
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Senate Finance Drug Pricing Framework Risks Similar Pitfalls of Price-Setting H.R. 3
By Andrew Lautz, National Taxpayers Union Last month, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) released a “Principles for Drug Pricing Reform” document that outlines how the Senator, who chairs one of the most powerful committees in Congress, would like to address prescription drug costs this year. While the document is sparse on details, […]
The Most Critical Metal You’ve Never Heard of
By Larry Reaugh, American Manganese Inc. Rare Earths Elements (REEs) may grab most of the headlines when the topic is critical minerals, but 21st Century technology is hungry for far more than REEs; take the lithium-ion batteries that literally drive our Electric Vehicles, which require not only the lithium that gives them their […]
Don’t Slow Up Race For Cancer Cures
By Mark Pfeifle and Bob Jensen While Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer was steering bipartisan legislation to stimulate major investments in science through the Senate, his former chief counsel, acting Federal Trade Commission chairwoman, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, was leading the FTC in an unprecedented effort to block a merger of two U.S. companies […]
The Hill: Our broken drug rebate system makes Americans sicker and poorer
Writing in The Hill, David Balto, a former policy director of the Federal Trade Commission in the Obama Administration, and Wayne Winegarden, an economist with the Pacific Research Institute, discuss the growing pressure on public officials to address anti-competitive industry practices known as “rebate walls” or “rebate traps”. “Rebates and discounts are generally […]
A Market-Orientated Approach Is The Best Way To Close The Digital Divide
By Will Yepez, National Taxpayers Union Senators Rob Portman (R-OH), Michael Bennet (D-CO), and Angus King (I-ME) recently introduced the Broadband Reform and Investment to Drive Growth in the Economy (BRIDGE) Act of 2021 (S. 2071). This well-intentioned legislation would provide $40 billion in funding to states, Tribal governments, U.S. territories, and […]
South Dakota Rocked Again as a Wind Turbine Plant Shuts Its Doors
By Selena Zito, Heartland John F. Kerry, the special presidential envoy for climate, said only months ago that those losing fossil fuel jobs in coal and hydraulic fracturing will find they have a better choice of jobs either in the solar industry or as wind turbine technicians. That was then. Now, a wind […]
We need more borders and more states
By Ryan McMaken, Fundación Internacional Bases In the context of trade and immigration, borders are often explained as a means of excluding foreign workers. Thinking in a certain way, borders offer an opportunity for states to exclude private actors, such as workers, merchants and entrepreneurs. On the contrary, borders can also serve a […]
Less taxes, less laws, less poverty: three successful European countries
By Eben McDonald, Contrepoints As Luxembourg, Switzerland and Ireland show, it is not necessarily social spending and redistribution that raises the level of the poorest. The Social Democrats often praise the Nordic countries as examples of the success of progressive taxes, generous welfare states and powerful unions. Free trade advocates […]
Washington’s War on Big Tech Continues
By Edward Longe, American Consumer Institute In an era of deep political divisions, no issue unifies Republicans and Democrats quite like punishing big tech. In the last twelve months, Senate Democrats and Republicans have released their own punitive proposals to reform America’s antitrust law. Additionally, Democrats in the House of Representatives just published […]