TPA Sends Letter to Senate Finance Health Subcommittee on Partisan Drug Pricing Bill

On behalf of the millions of taxpayers and consumers represented by the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA), we write to voice our concern about Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) partisan drug pricing bill announced on July 6, 2022.

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TPA Sends Letter to Senate Finance Health Subcommittee on Partisan Drug Pricing Bill

On behalf of the millions of taxpayers and consumers represented by the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA), we write to voice our concern about Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's (D-N.Y.) partisan drug pricing bill announced on July 6, 2022.

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Op-Ed: Officials in Colorado Town Funnel $15 Million More to Government Broadband Project

It’s a classic case of “I told you so.” The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) often writes about the missteps of local governments creating their own broadband networks, warning that these systems usually don’t perform as well as expected or cost more than anticipated. And, these systems usually result in a hit to the pocketbooks of taxpayers or electric ratepayers.

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TPA Sends Letter Expressing Concerns About Search and Seizure Policies at the U.S. Postal Service

TPA sent the below letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy today in light of serious allegations that the United States Postal Service (USPS) has been searching and seizing packages containing politically branded items.

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TPA Sends Letter Expressing Concerns About Search and Seizure Policies at the U.S. Postal Service

TPA sent the below letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy today in light of serious allegations that the United States Postal Service (USPS) has been searching and seizing packages containing politically branded items.

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Profile in Courage: Dr. Arthur “Art” Laffer

Since the dawn of the discipline of economics, the field’s practitioners have been stuck in an identity crisis. Many economists have hidden behind an overly mathematicised view of supply and demand, trying to pigeonhole a complicated economic order into a series of narrow equations.

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Op-Ed: The FDA’s demonization of nicotine harms consumers and people who want to quit smoking

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) continues to play whack-a-mole on tobacco policies. The leading regulatory agency that oversees everything from food staples to pharmaceuticals to tobacco products still can’t understand that smoking rates are at all-time lows and continues with prohibitionist policies it likes to call “product standards.”

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