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Sunshine Week 2010: Sunshine is the Best Disinfectant
By: Jason Clemens on 3.15.2010
KansasWatchdog will mark Sunshine Week with daily articles on government transparency.
No roads to recovery in sight
By: Steven Greenhut on 3.12.2010
With California teetering on insolvency, government union activists and liberal legislators are trying to whip the public into a "please tax us more" frenzy by scaring people about the consequences of spending cuts.
Pacific Research Institute Releases New Study on Government to Government Lobbying
3.10.2010 4:00:00 AM
Today the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in California, released a breakthrough study on taxpayer-funded lobbying, or government to government lobbying.
California's tax tactics undermine prosperity
By: Jason Clemens on 3.10.2010
California's bond rating is the country's lowest. The state faces near unprecedented unemployment and underemployment. State government and most counties face deficits for the foreseeable future. The solution to this predicament, some Sacramento politicians believe, is more taxes.
No easy solutions for U.S., Japan to revive economies
By: Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D on 3.10.2010
Effective policy approaches should be similar for both the U.S. and Japan even though their economies differ in important respects, said Benjamin Zycher, a senior fellow of the Pacific Research Institute.
Who could blame us for cussing?
By: Steven Greenhut on 3.5.2010
California's union-dominated, Democratic-controlled Legislature is temperamentally incapable of fixing the state's structural budget deficit, given that such a fix would require reduced government spending and the granting of fewer benefits to the state's class of government workers.
Another Roosevelt? More like Barack Hoover
By: Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D on 3.1.2010
President Obama has been talking tough on deficit reduction, but many left-leaning pundits and economists warn that such rhetoric will prolong the economic slump.
'Jobs' bills: Why they fizzle
By: Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D on 2.27.2010
California's unemployment rate is more than 12 percent, prompting state Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg's new plan to create some 140,000 jobs. The plan, unfortunately, has a problem.
Greetings from California
By: Jason Clemens, Robert P. Murphy, Ph.D on 2.26.2010
This excellent report from the Pacific Research Institute has plenty of details.
Retreat from pension reform fight
By: Steven Greenhut on 2.26.2010
Anyone who thinks that gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman offers much hope for fixing the state's structural fiscal mess should now wonder whether the billionaire former eBay chief executive might end up being nothing more than another Arnold Schwarzenegger – a governor who sometimes talks a good game but who, ultimately, is too timid to take on the vested interests that are destroying our once-golden state.
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