Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| An End to Out-of-State Beer? The CARE Act could potentially bar out-of-state beers, ensuring a captive market for home-state breweries, says Michelle Minton, director of the insurance studies project at the Competitive Enterprise Institute... |
| Attack of the Food Police A 58 percent tax on soda would "drop the average body mass by only 0.16 points" -- on a scale of 30, according to economists at California Polytechnic State University... |
| Zap California's Video Game Law You can't blame parents for wanting to shield their children from ultra-violent video games, but the legal question is whether government has a role in deciding which games ought to be banned, say observers... |
| $1 billion in Taxpayer Money Goes to the Deceased About $1 billion in taxpayer money goes to 250,000 deceased individuals, according to a review of reports by the Government Accountability Office, inspectors general and Congress itself... |
| Red Tape Rising Fiscal 2010 saw the largest increase in regulatory burdens placed on the U.S. economy in the nation's recorded regulatory history, says Conn Carroll, assistant director for the Heritage Foundation's Strategic Communications... |
| H-1B Visas: A Case for Open Immigration of Highly Skilled Foreign Workers The rapid pace of technological and scientific development is best fostered by an open immigration regime, says Alex Nowrasteh, a policy analyst with the Competitive Enterprise Institute... |
| Medical Journal Bias on Guns Medical journals have increasingly strayed into politics at the expense of scientific accuracy, says economist John R. Lott, Jr... |
| A Visa for Job Creators Cooler heads need to keep in mind the economic benefits of attracting human capital to America, say observers... |
| Tyranny of the Unelected Annual off-budget regulatory costs exceed $1.7 trillion, an amount equivalent to more than half the level of the federal budget itself and on a par with the annual deficit, says Wayne Crews, a vice president at the Competitive Enterprise Institute... |
| Type I Terrors The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) self-interest has caused soaring risk aversion, escalating development costs and fewer new products available to consumers, says Henry I. Miller, a fellow with the Hoover Institution... |
