Category: National Policy Analysis

Social Security Reform Would Give More Americans the Benefits of Stock Investing

National Policy Analysis #247 /
Any discussion of how well Americans are doing should begin with an acknowledgement of something we often forget: Americans have a higher standard of living today than ever. Technological advancement is one reason, but so is economic prosperity. In 1970, ...
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Americans Are Better Off Than We Think

National Policy Analysis #238 /
Quiz: Which are true? A. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. B. Americans have less free time every year. C. Americans are being left with inferior service jobs because manufacturing jobs are being shipped overseas ...
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Bill Would Fund Parks, Hockey Rinks to Rescue Oceans

National Policy Analysis #240 /
Only politicians would try sell the idea that best way to reduce environmental threats to the oceans is to spend more money on ice hockey rinks, parks and other recreational facilities in cities. But that's precisely what some of our ...
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Government Hinders Environmental Progress, Free Market Advances It

National Policy Analysis #241 /
The free market can be one of the most powerful forces for solving the nation's environment problems if government doesn't stand in the way. Two cases in point are the experiences of Benjamin Cone of North Carolina and the Lexmark ...
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Congress Considers Tax Limitation Constitutional Amendment

National Policy Analysis #242 /
In the year 1057, Lady Godiva urged her husband Leofric, Earl of Mercia, to lower taxes on the people of Coventry. Leofric replied that he would do so only if his wife rode naked through the town marketplace. Lady Godiva ...
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Supreme Court and Congress Act Against Junk Science

National Policy Analysis #237 /
Newspaper readers nationwide chuckled recently, reading Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel and Associated Press stories about a southern Florida sports club that had banned soap, shampoo and shaving cream for the club's locker room.(1) The club had recently paid more than $50,000 ...
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Latin American Nations Use U.S. Legal System for Profit

National Policy Analysis #236 /
Greedy plaintiffs attorneys making back-room deals with elected officials, massive contingency fee deals, untested legal theories, multi-billion dollar claims - sounds like another day in the U.S. court system, doesn't it? But this time the perpetrators are five Latin American ...
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Clinton’s Urban Sprawl Program Threatens Freedom and the Environment

National Policy Analysis #231 /
What percentage of U.S. land do you think has been developed? 50%? 25%? 10%? Answer: Less than 5%. Yet the Clinton Administration believes that taxpayers must pay for a multi-billion dollar land acquisition program aimed at curbing "urban sprawl" - ...
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Jury Tampering in Exxon Valdez Trial Pollutes America’s System of Justice

National Policy Analysis #232 /
There's a penchant among American juries for extracting a pound of flesh and then some from big, bad corporations with deeper-than-deep pockets. Americans have always loved striking a blow for the little guy, and many believe that one of the ...
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White House Tries to Buy Support for Greenhouse Gas Reductions, by John Carlisle

National Policy Analysis #233 /
One of the more surprising developments in the ongoing global warming debate is the Clinton Administration's success in lining up major corporate support for the greenhouse gas reductions stipulated under the Kyoto Protocol. Signed by the United States and 158 ...
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