Isn’t the Internet cool? You get to surf the net to buy things, check sports scores and even read a blog or two. Things seem to be working pretty well, huh? Well, that hasn’t stopped the government from trying to regulate the Internet under the guise of net neutrality. What is net neutrality? According to [...]
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…the census is a $14 billion mess.
You would think that after 200 plus years the federal government could be counted on to perform one of its few constitutionally mandated jobs without making a hash of it. In 2000, the government was so ill-prepared Congress had to pass an emergency supplemental bill to fund the decennial headcount. The build up to the [...]
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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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December 2007
Big Time ARM Wrestling
By Leslie K. PaigeThe country continues to experience uncertainty and volatility in the financial markets as a result of the crisis in the mortgage industry. Financial services companies have been hit hard. For its part, Congress has been trying to help homeowners who face foreclosure or need help refinancing homes they can [...]
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CAGW Hails FCC’s Caution on 70/70 Rule Regulation
“Chairman Martin has resorted to cherry-picking data in an attempt to increase government control of cable TV at the expense of consumers and the free market. The 70/70 rule is a relic from before the time of the Internet, satellite TV, and telephone fiber networks and should be [...]
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