Daily Policy Digest
| Federal Dollars: Here, There, Everywhere! More than 1,700 federal grants in fiscal year 2011 accounted for $515 billion in infrastructure, health and other program spending, a 160 percent increase from 1990... |
| How Economic Nationalism Bites Back The best way to encourage technological advancement and competition is by welcoming skilled immigrants and entrepreneurs to America... |
| End the Secrecy in Public Union Collective Bargaining The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that state and local government employees earn 43 percent more than their private sector counterparts... |
| Double Taxation of Capital Gains Must End Single taxation would encourage savings and investment, which are necessary to supply capital to investors... |
| VA Overpaid Disabled Vets The Department of Veterans Affairs overpaid 12,800 veterans $943 million from 1993 to 2009; if the error isn't corrected, another $1.1 billion could be wasted by 2016... |
| Plastic Bag Restrictions Offer Few Benefits A 2011 study found that traditional plastic bags have the lowest environmental impact of any of the bags, including biodegradable and cotton bags... |
| Public Colleges Spend Six Times More on Athletes Spending per athlete totaled $92,000 for academic institutions in the Football Bowl Subdivision while spending on full-time students' education was less than $14,000... |
| Facts about America's Health Care Quality that the World Doesn't Know For breast cancer, the mortality rate in Germany is 52 percent higher and in the United Kingdom it is 88 percent higher than in the United States... |
| Government Benefits Encourage Unemployment Thirty million more Americans receive food stamps today than in 2000 and the average benefit has risen over the past three years by $23... |
| Corn-Based Ethanol Production Should Cease As a fuel source, corn ethanol is far less efficient than gasoline, providing 27 percent lower fuel economy than traditional gasoline... |
