Daily Policy Digest
Government Issues
| Requests for Information Rise as Transparency Declines Researchers have discovered a 28 percent increase in the number of Freedom of Information Act lawsuits from President Bush's last two years in office to the last two years of President Obama's first term... |
| Proposed Motor Vehicle Safety Standard Has Few Benefits A new regulation proposes that hybrid and electric motor vehicles make enough sound to alert the blind or visually impaired of their presence... |
| Federal Communications Commission: Onerous Regulations and High Cost The Federal Communications Commission is the federal government's third most expensive agency, costing $142 billion a year... |
| Struggling Post Office Scraps Saturday Service The U.S. Postal Service projects that eliminating Saturday service will save roughly $2 billion annually by reducing the need for mail carriers on Saturday... |
| Millions Defraud Federal Phone Subsidy Program Forty-one percent of Lifeline subscribers, a service that provides phones to low-income Americans via subsidies from phone service customers, could not demonstrate eligibility or did not respond to requests to determine eligibility... |
| January 2013 Poll Results Reflect Americans' True Feelings Forty percent of American surveyed say their quality of life has been reduced due to government spending... |
| Privatizing Roads Will Improve America's Roads New road enterprises in America should be granted the ability to charge user fees in place of relying on general funds... |
| Dispelling a Common Gun-Control Myth Increasing background checks will constitute nothing more than an inconvenience for most gun purchasers and the delays may even trigger slight rises in violent crime... |
| Freedom of Association Many union members are forced to associate with that union and accept exclusive union representation based simple on a majority of workers voting to unionize... |
| 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... |
