Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| A Bailout for the U.S. Postal Service? The postmaster general recently told bulk mail customers that the service's costs will exceed revenue by $2.7 billion, even after borrowing $3 billion from the U.S. Treasury, says Angela Greiling Keane... |
| United States Should Shoot Down U.N. Small Arms Treaty If the United Nations is put in charge of U.S. gun policy, American sovereignty will be reduced with no corresponding decrease in international violence, according to H. Sterling Burnett, a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis... |
| Government Unions vs. Taxpayers Since January 2008 the private sector has lost nearly eight million jobs while local, state and federal governments added 590,000, says Tim Pawlenty... |
| The McVictim Syndrome Could Kill Us Too many pundits, public health experts and politicians are working overtime to find scapegoats for America's obesity epidemic, says David Gratzer... |
| Congress Forces Millions to Cut Up Their Credit Cards Credit card companies prepared for their new straitened circumstances by booting customers who would no longer be profitable and hiking interest rates for others, according to Katherine Mangu-Ward... |
| Slow Death for High-Speed Rail High-speed rail is slower than flying, less convenient than driving and at least five times more expensive than either one, says Randal O'Toole... |
| More FDA Authority Won't Improve Food Safety Increasing the Food and Drug Administration's regulatory authority would waste taxpayer money on activities unlikely to improve safety, says Gregory Conko... |
| READ THIS: Local Governments Told to Buy New Street Signs New regulations for traffic signs will cost Milwaukee, Wis., nearly $2 million, says Jonathan Karl... |
| High-Speed-Train Wreck Only three of the United States' eight new high-speed rail corridors that received funding will feature trains capable of reaching speeds in excess of 110 miles per hour, say Iain Murray, vice president for strategy, and Marc Scribner, land use and transportation policy analyst, with the Competitive Enterprise Institute... |
| Instant Reform: Measure the Hidden Tax of Regulation If Congress doesn't grapple with the regulatory state, this economy can't regain footing, says Clyde Wayne Crews, vice president for policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute... |
