One of President Obama’s better decisions, says Adam Bates, was banning the federal government from distributing surplus military equipment to local police forces. The move followed the riots in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, where the police were condemned for their heavy-handed military response. The bad news, though, is that the Trump administration has now rescinded …
The British government has been caught on a petard of its own making, a total inability to think through the implications of Brexit. Only now is reality dawning: if you want to maintain the support of industry you have to keep all the 40 Free Trade Agreements arranged by the EU. Britain does not have …
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Progressives should never talk about “tax reform” and never accept this phrase as a basis for debate. Progressives champion “tax fairness”, not “reform”. The one sets us up for victory, the ofher defeat (Bernie Horn, Public Leadership Institute, Sept 13, 2017)
One of the challenges confronting the successful use of renewable energy, especially sunlight, is the storage of power. Now the US Department of Energy recently developed a brand new battery technology. The Energy Department’s research arm, called Arpa-E, was started in 2009 under Obama’s economic recovery plan to fund early- stage research into the generation …
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Wagner’s Law is the simple idea that as an economy develops, state spending as a proportion of that economy rises. This is due to the electorate demanding a standard of social services the market cannot provide. With a society’s increasing wealth, widespread destitution, inadequate pensions, a lack of good schools and a backward military become …
