Business Subsidies and State Tax Climates
Chris Edwards State and local subsidies and narrow tax breaks for businesses are growing. These benefits—called incentives—include
Are Government Prohibitions Effective?
Jeffrey Miron and Jacob Winter Standard economic reasoning suggests that prohibitions reduce the production and consumption of
Fourth Circuit: Tax Exempt Status Is Not Federal Financial Assistance
Walter Olson In a pair of cases decided within weeks of each other in 2022, federal judges ruled
Friday Feature: TwiddleU
Colleen Hroncich Jeana Wilson didn’t plan to get into education. But her daughter has special needs that
101 Late Fees Charged by the Government
Nicholas Anthony Under the Biden administration, the government has launched an all‐out “war on junk fees.” This
Immersive Outreach Programs May Be a Better Investment than DEI Initiatives
Erec Smith Recently, the University of North Carolina‐Chapel Hill Board of Trustees voted, unanimously, to divert money
FERC’s Order No. 1920: A Costly Shell Game
Travis Fisher Disclaimer: I served as a staff economist at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 2006 to 2013
Seventy Years after Brown, the Goal Must Be Liberty
Neal McCluskey and Colleen Hroncich On May 17, 1954, something necessary but not sufficient for American liberty
The “Zombification” of Qualified Immunity?
Clark Neily “I have a theory: Qualified immunity has already been bitten by one of the walkers in
NPR Digs into CBDCs
Nicholas Anthony Governments around the world are weighing whether to launch central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs.