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  • June 30, 2010
    Blog
    Charters Kill Private Schools and Add to Taxpayer Burden
    Tradeoffs are an incurable part of reality. Unfortunately, many school choice supporters like to believe that there are no tradeoffs between school choice policies; public and private school choice, targeted or restricted, big or small, voucher or tax credits, it …
    By Adam B. Schaeffer
  • February 23, 2010
    Blog
    You Always Lose with Top-Down Standards
    Yesterday, Andrew Coulson and I wrote a bit on President Obama’s little talk with the nation’s governors about potential changes to federal education policy. The root of the President’s proposal — and we’ve probably only seen fragments …
    By Neal McCluskey
  • May 26, 2009
    Blog
    Tough Words
    In the Wall Street Journal, Mary Anastasia O’Grady got Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher to go on the record about current Fed policy. He talks tough about inflation. “Throughout history, what the political class has done is they have …
    By Gerald P. O’Driscoll Jr.
  • November 30, 2006
    Blog
    Health Wonk Review #21
    Is there a happier day of the bi-week than HWR Day? Not for us health wonks. Here is this round of health policy blogging, complete with first-time hosting jitters. R-E-S-P-E-C-T Over at …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • October 19, 2006
    News Releases
    Only One Governor Earns Top Score on Cato’s Governors Report Card
    Media Contact: (202) 789‑5200 WASHINGTON — Republican Governor Matt Blunt of Missouri earns the highest score on the Cato Institute’s eighth biennial fiscal policy report card released today. Out of 46 governors reviewed, Blunt is the only governor this …
  • August 3, 2006
    Blog
    Republicans for Big Brother
    The Cato Institute has noted for some time that conservatives and Republicans have abandoned their limited-government principles when it comes to health policy. Examples can be found here, here, here, here, and here. The New America Foundation just made …
    By Michael F. Cannon
  • May 12, 2006
    Blog
    Scotland Ups the Nanny Ante
    By my measure, the United States trails the United Kingdom by about three to five years when it comes to aggressively paternalistic public policy. Get ready for this one: First the Scottish Executive wanted people followed home if they breached …
    By Radley Balko
  • February 11, 2004
    Fox News (Online)
    Why Prohibitions on Internet Gambling Won’t Work
    … to legalize Internet gaming in the future as the bookmakers get ensconced in their offshore locations. A far more sensible policy would be to legalize Internet bookmakers. This would allow policies to be put in place that could limit the …
    By Koleman Strumpf
  • February 10, 2004
    Fox News (Online)
    Online Gambling Ban Doomed to Fail
    … to legalize Internet gaming in the future as the bookmakers get ensconced in their offshore locations. A far more sensible policy would be to legalize Internet bookmakers. This would allow policies to be put in place that could limit the …
    By Koleman Strumpf
  • December 29, 2003
    Cato.org
    How FDR’s New Deal Harmed Millions of Poor People
    Democratic presidential candidates as well as some conservative intellectuals, are suggesting that Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal is a good model for government policy today. Mounting evidence, however, makes clear that poor people were principal victims of the New …
    By Jim Powell
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