While addressing youth use of age-restricted products is laudable, lawmakers must refrain from imposing excessive excise taxes on adult products. Youth use of cigars and cigarettes are at record lows in the Commonwealth, while adult use has steadily declined.
The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) urges the FCC to continue this bipartisanship as Gomez joins the commission. The commission should continue to avoid dangerous policies and partisanship that have plagued other agencies in the Biden administration.
The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) urges the FCC to continue this bipartisanship as Gomez joins the commission. The commission should continue to avoid dangerous policies and partisanship that have plagued other agencies in the Biden administration.
Many industries find it far easier to lobby Washington for special protections and cronyism than to best their competition in the market. They exert potent and targeted pressure on key officials, often obtaining crony policy concessions that, while providing some limited benefit to the petitioners, slow America’s economic growth generally. This is the playbook being used by businesses urging more tariffs.
The European Union (EU) is rife with examples of bureaucrats and policy officials abusing their discretion and undermining the rule of law. And, these ridiculous EU regulations tend to make their way to the halls of the U.S. Congress. To keep taxpayers and consumers from Portugal to Finland in the know and warn U.S. taxpayer and consumers what may be next, TPA presents “the European Union’s Eleven Greatest Blunders.”
The school year is beginning, meaning it’s time to sharpen those pencils, reload the stapler, and log onto ChatGPT (just kidding). While long division isn’t most students’ strong suit, most of America’s schoolchildren have learned enough addition and multiplication by now to realize that federal budget numbers just don’t add up. For fiscal year (FY) 2023, the federal government has already rung up an astounding $1.6 trillion in deficit spending, and the annual total will almost certainly exceed $2 trillion. Adding these figures perpetually to the national debt (nearly $33 trillion) will surely lead to calculator “ERROR” messages and exponential angst down the road.
Presidential politics are in full swing. The early days of the campaign are always entertaining, as many candidates introduce themselves to the American public with some unique ideas for their would-be presidencies. However, some of these proposals are not entirely new ideas, with some also being quite destructive in nature. Such is the nature of one idea floated by Vivek Ramaswamy.
The Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s (TPA) State Bill of the Month for August 2023 is S3560, an Act concerning the regulation of kitchen appliances and supplementing Title 52 of the Revised…
The Broadband Buildout Accountability Act strongly promotes transparency by subjecting BEAD to clear FOIA standards, allowing interested parties to request information on grants within the program.
Today, the Biden administration announced the Girst 10 drugs that will be cov- ered by a sweeping new price “negotiation” program under Medicare. The Taxpayers Protection Al- liance (TPA), a nonproGit, nonpartisan taxpayer and consumer watchdog organization has long warned that such negotiations are nothing more than thinly veiled price controls, imposed by execu- tive Giat. They will reduce access and stiGle innovation in the pharmaceutical sector.
