Publications

U.S. taxpayers have been subsidizing wind energy for decades. The primary focus of that subsidy has been the Production Tax Credit, which ended in 2013. But powerful forces want to reinstate the PTC, even though wind energy imposes huge costs on ratepayers and taxpayers at a time when fossil-fuel generated electricity is getting cheaper and cleaner.

Technology is a tool that can be used for good or evil, to empower the state or empower the people. We must choose continued individual liberty.

Congress should pass an extenders package and resolve to move on fundamental tax reform during the next Congress. But that package should not include the PTC.

President Obama likes to trash the U.S. as a top polluter, but by some measurements the U.S., as the world's economic engine, does very well.

States are looking for ways to reduce their exploding Medicaid spending. Two states, Illinois and Pennsylvania, found a way to do just that: by examining their Medicaid and welfare rolls and removing people who don't belong.

Imagine the surprise that online customers will receive when the lame duck Senate massively expands government power via the Internet.

Imagine the surprise that online customers will receive when the lame duck Senate massively expands government power via the Internet.

The rollout of Obamacare had a lot in common with the "rollout" of Barack Obama's presidency. Both encouraged high expectations, promised impressive deliverables, and tried to reinstill faith in big government. And both utterly failed.

For our innovation economy to flourish, we need a robust, functioning patent system, and ending the litigation treadmill would play a positive role.

Voter turnout will likely be low in this mid-term election; only a little more than a third of voters will take the time and effort to vote. But it will have nothing to do with voter ID laws or voter suppression and everything to do with apathy.