Decades before Bernie Sanders and AOC rode the socialist wave, America faced the specter of a rising welfare-statism.
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January 14, 2020 | Weekly Newsletter
How to Stem the Tide of Socialism ([link removed])
By Amity Shlaes (San Francisco Chronicle, 1/13/20)
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Decades before Bernie Sanders and AOC rode the socialist wave, America faced the specter of a rising welfare-statism. Recognizing that the conflict was fundamentally a war of ideas, General Electric vice president Lemuel Boulware fought back with booklets, newsletters—even a TV show hosted by Ronald Reagan—all making the case for free markets and individual liberty. READ MORE » ([link removed])
Event: War on Poverty or War on the Poor? (Oakland, 1/14/20) ([link removed])
Solving California’s Housing Affordability Crisis: Summary of Findings and Recommendations from the California Golden Fleece® Award ([link removed])
By Lawrence J. McQuillan (1/8/20)
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California’s high housing costs and severe homelessness are rotten fruit borne of policies pushed by elected officials, unelected regulators, and anti-development activists. A meaningful solution requires a host of measures that spur housing construction and drive down home prices and rents, including reducing zoning and land-use restrictions, streamlining building-permit approvals, discouraging local NIMBYism, eliminating rent controls and affordable-housing mandates, and allowing entrepreneurs to provide housing at all price points. READ MORE » ([link removed])
[link removed] How to Restore the California Dream Removing Obstacles to Fast and Affordable Housing Development ([link removed])
By Lawrence J. McQuillan
House Bill Seeking Price Controls on Drugs Would Cause Millions to Die ([link removed])
By Ronald L. Trowbridge (The Hill, 12/20/19)
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The U.S. Senate is considering legislation, passed by the House in December, ostensibly aimed at lowering the price of prescription drugs. In reality, the bill would drastically undermine pharmaceutical innovation by gutting the incentive and ability of drug manufacturers to invest in costly research and development. READ MORE » ([link removed])
[link removed] A Better Choice Healthcare Solutions for America ([link removed])
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Is Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness a Public Service? ([link removed])
By C. Ronald Kimberling (The Hill, 12/24/19)
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President Trump’s critics have castigated him for daring to consider eliminating a federal program that forgives college-loan debt in exchange for public service. The fact that the subsidies from this out-of-control entitlement mostly go to those who are, and will be, economically better off goes unnoticed. READ MORE » ([link removed])
[link removed] Restoring the Promise Higher Education in America ([link removed])
By Richard K. Vedder
Has Trump Started a War with Iran He Cannot Win? ([link removed])
By Ivan Eland (St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 1/8/20)
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Trump’s assassination of Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s top general and second most powerful leader, has the potential to unleash a conflict that exacts a heavy toll on both sides. Although the United States surpasses Iran in conventional measures of national power, the Islamic Republic could adapt to this imbalance by relying on tactics of asymmetric warfare. READ MORE » ([link removed])
[link removed] War and the Rogue Presidency Restoring the Republic after Congressional Failure ([link removed])
By Ivan Eland
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