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Costs and Consequences: Rate-of-Return Biases, Rate Suppression, and Market Incentives for Quality in Property/Casualty Insurance Regulation
By: Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D on 10.26.2010
The imposition of legal and regulatory constraints on market prices—price controls, or rate suppression in the case of the property/casualty insurance market—is an important tool with which public officials can effect wealth transfers among groups and economic sectors.
Can We Fix the California Crackup?
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley on 10.13.2010
Last month, Joe Mathews and Mark Paul of the New America Foundation came to Sacramento to promote their new book, California Crackup: How Reform Broke the Golden State and How We Can Fix It. Few if any in the audience at the University of California Sacramento Center took issue with the “crackup” part.
No Bang for the Taxpayer’s Buck: Why California Must Reform Spending and Trim Government
By: Jason Clemens, Julie Kaszton, Niels Veldhuis on 10.13.2010
California government can do more with fewer taxpayer dollars, according to a new study released today by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in San Francisco.
No Bang for the Taxpayer’s Buck: Why California Must Reform Spending and Trim Government
By: Jason Clemens, Julie Kaszton, Niels Veldhuis on 10.13.2010
California government can do more with fewer taxpayer dollars, according to a new study released today by the Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a free-market think tank based in San Francisco.
The Prospective Effects of Proposition 23 on Employment in California
By: Benjamin Zycher, Ph.D on 10.4.2010
A new study finds that the approval of Proposition 23, suspending the implementation of AB 32, would add nearly 150,000 jobs in California in 2011, more than a half million jobs by 2012, and more than 1.3 million jobs by 2020.
State IT Plan Should Help Silicon Valley and Respect Taxpayers
By: Vince Vasquez on 5.19.2010
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has used the state’s IT Strategic Plan as a guiding document to streamline operations, improve efficiencies and accountability across dozens of state agencies. The motive is sound, but whether this effort will succeed remains in doubt.
Can Government Balance Nature by Killing Sea Lions?
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley on 5.12.2010
A local fisherman, Mr. Larry Legans, has been accused of shooting a sea lion for consuming the fish he caught. Mr. Legans, who faces three years in prison and $70,000 in fines, must be rather puzzled to see government agents killing sea lions, for the crime of eating fish.
Earth Day Agenda: Cap and Trade Plan for AB 32
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley on 4.21.2010
California environmental officials have decided against implementing the “cool car” regulations they finalized last June. The move could be a first step toward a better environmental policy and an improved economy.
Taxifornia
By: Jason Clemens on 4.15.2010
California ranked dead last in a combined measure of the state's tax burden and tax structure according to the newly released study, Taxifornia.
Pacific Research Institute Releases New Study on Government to Government Lobbying
By: Jason Clemens on 3.10.2010 4:00:00 AM
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.
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