Category Archives: Healthcare
America: Less Free Now
The Heritage Foundation has released its annual index of economic freedom and America has slipped to #10 in the world. The Foundation explains in a new video why economic freedom is so important: The project Economic Freedom also has used an incredibly popular video to make its case: And it released a sequel:
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Will Prosperity Be On The 2012 Ballot?
What we’re reading this morning, courtesy of David Nace: The events of the 1980s clearly demonstrate that the middle class benefits from government policies that promote prosperity rather than programs that promote dependency at the expense of prosperity. The real question going into to the 2012 election is whether middle-class voters will see through the [...]
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Today’s Best Reads
Fighting over “regulation,” taxes, and overall level of government intrusion into free enterprise can quickly get into jargon and it’s easy to forget that there are real consequences for real people. Today, Warren Stephens takes to the pages of the Wall Street Journal with a specific example of how one major piece of regulation-by-legislation is [...]
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HTA in TDC: “Big Labor is literally threatening businesses”
Everyone knows Big Labor looks out first and foremost for Big Labor Bosses, right? Well, you probably should. Case in point, the major setback for organized labor strategists who spent $30 million trying to unseat several Republican state legislators in Wisconsin whose only sin was voting for Gov. Scott Walker’s efforts to rein in spending [...]
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5 Questions for “Stealing You Blind” Author Iain Murray
Dear HTA readers, We strive to bring you the best in intellectual and advocacy materials as you fight to halt the assault on free enterprise. Today, we publish an email interview exchange with Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Iaim Murray regarding his fantastic new book. We hop you enjoy! — Free Enterprise Alliance team Halt The Assault: [...]
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Robbing Opie’s Future To Pay For Andy Griffith’s PR Blitz
It’s hard to dislike Andy Griffith, the star of lovable shows such as Mayberry RFD, Matlock, and of course his eponymous hit. But it was easy to dislike the actor’s shilling for Obamacare in this ad you may recall: It also turns out you may hate the price tag. We hear, via The Playbook, that [...]
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Is Big Labor The Scorpion King?
The day after Obama’s election, the language of labor leaders sparkled. “This is our moment, a new beginning,” said one. Election Day 2008 “was one of the brightest days ever,” said another. Who would have thought, such a short time later, that the President’s most loyal friend looks more like a scorpion trapped in the [...]
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More Proof, Americans Want To Halt The Assault
A pair of related polling memos out of the Gallup Organization should offer some pretty easy insights to the President and Congress and, we are happy to report, the bottom line is Americans want them to Halt The Assault on jobs and the economy! The figures are stark. One memo shows: Overall, 68% of Americans [...]
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California Leading Nation Toward More Anti-Business Laws
California has a giant economy, and giant economic problems. But legislators and regulators there keep up the campaign to “be number 1″ in anti-business regulations. The Examiner has a brief roundup: California is enacting a whopping 725 new state laws, including: AB 715 makes a change to the California Green Building Standards code. The change [...]
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Another Reason We Have Budget Problems