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These aren’t Allies

What to Know: Activists continue to try to marry the Black Lives Matter movement with “green” environmental politics. They’ve even enlisted Greta Thunberg.

The TPPF Take: These movements are incompatible. Green policies will drive up energy costs.

“There’s a broad disconnect between the leadership of the environmental groups promoting an exclusively renewable energy grid, and the needs of the African American communities that would be affected by these policies,” says TPPF’s Katie Tahuahua. “Despite their overtures to racial equality, most environmental groups are tone-deaf to the plight of so many Black Americans who would suffer from their policies.”

Backing the Blue

What to Know: Fort Worth voters rejected calls to defund the police, and kept in place a sales tax that makes up much of the FWPD budget.

The TPPF Take: The movement to defund the police could lead to a disaster—just ask Camden, New Jersey.

“Budget cuts decrease the ability of a police agency to train its officers and hamper its ability to attract quality recruits,” says TPPF’s Randy Petersen. “Furthermore, it will reduce its ability to use innovative programs to improve public safety and public relations.”

Price Transparency

What to Know: Hospitals want to delay revealing their prices for medical procedures, citing the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

The TPPF Take: Requiring hospitals and insurers to disclose rates and prices can reduce inflated health care costs and benefit all Americans. That’s especially important now.

“Health care consumers do not know what they’ll pay until after treatment occurs,” says TPPF’s David Balat. “The fact is that hospitals have the data, yet they have spent significant resources fighting the administration to keep their negotiated prices hidden from their patients rather than prepare for health care price transparency.”