The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a cascade of healthcare innovation never seen before. In less than a year, multiple pharmaceutical companies were able to design, test, and mass-approve vaccines capable of preventing a new and deadly disease.
Washington, D.C. – The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) is deeply disappointed in Governor Ron DeSantis’ planned signing of legislation that supposedly targets “big tech” companies. However, this legislation would serve to stifle both speech and innovation online.
As a gesture of goodwill, President Biden recently announced that the U.S. will be shipping 20 million COVID-19 vaccine doses to other countries. This altruistic policy not only puts American values on full display but is also a testament to the strength of American pharmaceutical innovation. It is no coincidence that the U.S. has robust intellectual property (IP) protections and was the first out of the gate to have a COVID-19 vaccine ready. Unfortunately, these strong IP safeguards may be on the chopping block. The Biden administration’s recent decision to support an IP protections waiver for COVID-19 drugs is a significant step backward in preparing for the next pandemic and will throttle future drug and intellectual property innovations.
It’s National Waitstaff Day – a day in which the U.S. Census Bureau has noted as “the day to add a little extra to the tip you leave at a restaurant that happens to be open.” Quite frankly, every day should be National Waitstaff Day considering how much waitstaff works and how the restaurant and bar industry was gutted during the pandemic. Unfortunately, federal lawmakers, many who have long sought to abolish this very essence of American restaurants and bars, may be able to finally get their way in eliminating the federal tipped wage.
As lawmakers attempt to address the critical issue of youth use of age- restricted products (including electronic cigarettes and vapor products), some policymakers are seeking to ban sales of flavored tobacco and vapor products. As Maine lawmakers understand, this policy would create a fiscal loss in revenue, but would ultimately provide even less money to programs that can both help smokers quit and prevent youth use of age restricted products.
As the last year has taught us, an affordable and reliable internet connection is pretty important. It’s a worthy goal of public policy to help facilitate this for as many Americans as possible. What stands in the way of that goal is when politicians are fed unreliable data about the state of the internet market. The Biden administration is convinced that internet access prices in the United States are too high, but much of the reporting backing this up is based on misleading data from a group called Free Press. Upon even the briefest examination of Free Press’s interpretation of the data, their errors become obvious.
Even though it’s mid-May, it’s tax season (filing deadline was May 17). And, once again, millions of Americans found themselves going through the hassle of filling out their tax returns. Many are left wondering if there is a better way to file taxes. The process often seems like a government-sponsored brainteaser to see if you can come up with the right number, and the government will punish you if you guess incorrectly. So, proposals have been put forth to have the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) pre-determine a taxpayer’s liability and send them a bill. While this might seem a better solution, nothing could be further from the truth. Handing over filing duties to the government would amount to a reckless expansion of IRS discretion and agency snooping.
For Immediate Release Contact: Courtney Mattison (802-779-6416) WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance praised House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) and Congressman David B. McKinley, P.E. (R-W. Va.)…
This Tax Day, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) calls on all lawmakers to resist the urge to implement any tax hikes proposed by the Biden administration or members of Congress.
Under the guise of “protecting the children,” lawmakers in Maine are attempting to ban the sale of flavored tobacco and vapor products. While protecting children from the harms of adult products is laudable, this prohibition is effectively punishing adults for the failures of poorly executed and inadequately funded tobacco control programs. Worse, Maine stands to lose millions (if not billions of dollars) in the long term from tobacco-generated revenues that would otherwise help to fund said tobacco control programs.
