Posted on July 3rd, 2012 by Leslie Paige
The author of this post is Roger Morse, CAGW Visiting Fellow Bureaucratic, command-and-control regulation of coastal fisheries wastes taxpayers’ dollars and endangers the sustainability of this common resource. Managing a shared resource like fish in the sea is a difficult problem. Since no one owns them, there has always been simply a race to capture [...]
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Posted on April 6th, 2011 by Tom Schatz
Tomorrow, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will begin consideration of new rules on data roaming, which would regulate the agreements between wireless service providers. Currently, these agreements are private contracts that allow data to be carried on other networks on behalf of consumers; the new rules would get the government involved in establishing the prices for [...]
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Posted on February 23rd, 2011 by Tom Schatz
Bob Bowdon, author of “The Cartel,” roiled the blogosphere with his posting about Google’s “Doodle-4-Google” art contest. The original parent consent form included a request for the child’s city of birth, date of birth and last four digits of the child’s Social Security Number. Bowdon noted that with this information, Google could make a “statistical [...]
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Posted on April 29th, 2010 by Leslie Paige
There is a brawl brewing in the bucolic fields of Queen Anne’s County, Maryland. The Obama Administration’s $862 billion stimulus fund, ostensibly targeted toward shovel-ready, jobs-producing projects, is going toward the construction of a decidedly non-shovel-ready 2,000-acre U.S. State Department security training facility that residents in the region neither need nor want. This tiny band [...]
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Posted on June 3rd, 2008 by CAGW Staff
Day Two and the fun begins. People from around the world are now gathered making new friends seeing old ones and now listening to speakers talk about everything from property rights to health care reform. Check out my official minute by minute blog here. The first panel was real property rights and the challenges facing [...]
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Posted on January 18th, 2008 by Leslie Paige
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) and the British TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) today spoke out against the European Commission’s (EC) draconian attempts to regulate and stifle business, especially successful US companies.CAGW has discussed this issue in the past in the report Property Rights in the 21st Century: Don’t Steal This Paper or My Ideas and the [...]
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