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Lottery Funding for Health Care: An Unhealthy Gamble
Capital Ideas
By: Diana M. Ernst
10.31.2007
In January, Governor Schwarzenegger asked Californians to accept a tax increase to fund “universal” health reform that would increase spending by $12 billion. Almost a year later, the bill is up to $14 billion.
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You’ve Got Taxes! Ban on Internet Taxation Expires November 1
PRI Policy Update
By: Daniel R. Ballon, Ph.D
10.25.2007
For more than 200 million Internet users, the real fright this year could come the day after Halloween. On November 1, a law forbidding state and local governments from taxing Internet access will expire, potentially inflating the cost of broadband subscriptions by up to 30 percent.
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Post-Legislation Data Mining
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
10.24.2007
SACRAMENTO — Last month, scientists installed monitors on a 2,000-foot television tower in Walnut Grove, near Sacramento, to gauge progress in reduction of emissions. These monitors will not supply all the answers, but respect for data is a good way to proceed in a field often governed by speculation.
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Friedman and Freedom Under Attack
Contrarian
By: Sally C. Pipes
10.23.2007
As an economist, Milton Friedman was one of the early influences as a student of economics. I had the great fortune of meeting him and Rose in 1983 when I was working at the Fraser Institute in Canada. We developed a great friendship over the years. It was such a blessing when I moved from Canada to San Francisco and got to see them on a regular basis. Always gracious, Milton and Rose participated in many PRI events over the years, and even at 90 he showed the lucidity of a scholar in his 20s.
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Poor Results from California's Non-Poor Students
Capital Ideas
10.17.2007
The National Center for Education Statistics recently released the 2007 results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) Report Card. The spin is rather rosy, but California parents and policy makers should be aware of the darker picture related to actual performance.
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Continuing property wrongs since Prop 90's defeat
California Golden Fleece Award
By: Steven Greenhut
10.15.2007
Usually, when Americans are fleeced by their government, the fleecing comes in the form of wasteful spending programs. But the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2005 Kelo decision, upholding the “right” of local governments to take property from their current owners and give it to developers in the name of economic development, was perhaps the most massive fleecing Americans have witnessed in a generation.
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Your Money and Your Health
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
10.10.2007
SACRAMENTO – Senate Bill 840 is still on the table, an indication that some legislators want the government to take over health care. The premise for such a plan seems to be that the government cares deeply about the welfare of individual Californians. Those inclined to share that view might survey the way the state deals with Californians' money. In some cases the state just takes it, and the victims don't even know.
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American Health Care and American Productivity: It’s Better Than You Think!
Health Policy Prescriptions
By: John R. Graham
10.9.2007
There’s a rising chorus in the land that the flaws of American health care are not only bad for our health but harm national competitiveness and overall welfare. Even Lee Scott, CEO of Wal-Mart, a company that has introduced some headline-making innovations in health benefits for its workforce and customers, bemoans the cost of health care as a burden on the economy.
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