The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) released a policy brief titled Roadworthiness and Taxpayer Costs. For decades, policymakers, pundits, pedestrians, and drivers have expressed concern about the state of the nation’s roads. Despite more…
For Immediate Release Contact: Courtney Mattison (202) 525-7492 WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance Foundation (TPAF) launched a new project to monitor the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)…
In struggling cities such as Baltimore, Md., city council members will often accept the status-quo and not fight for a better future. Charm City has seen more than its fair…
The World Health Organization (WHO) will be hosting its 10th biennial Conference of the Parties (COP) of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) this November in Panama City, Panama. While the FCTC recognizes three pillars of tobacco control – prevention, cessation, and harm reduction – FCTC administrators and the WHO continue to obstruct the use of novel tobacco harm reduction products in aiding the world’s 1.3 billion tobacco users to switch to a safer alternative to cigarettes.
Millions of American military emails containing sensitive information have landed in inboxes in the North African nation of Mali. These emails have included sensitive passwords, crew and staff lists, maps of installations, information on internal and criminal investigations, and much more.
Today, TPA sent a letter to members of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee head of their consequential markup of S. 1409, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), and S. 1418, the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Act (COPPA 2.0) tomorrow. These two bills contain several issues, ranging from unconstitutional age verifications, ignorant consent requirements, heightened data collection, and a fundamental misunderstanding of targeted advertising.
Today, TPA sent a letter to members of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee head of their consequential markup of S. 1409, the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), and S. 1418, the Children and Teens’ Online Privacy Act (COPPA 2.0) tomorrow. These two bills contain several issues, ranging from unconstitutional age verifications, ignorant consent requirements, heightened data collection, and a fundamental misunderstanding of targeted advertising.
The Taxpayers Protection Alliance’s (TPA) Bill of the Month for July 2023 is the Streamline Pentagon Budgeting Act, introduced by Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), Tom McClintock (R-Calif.), John Garamendi (D-Calif.), Warren Davidson (R-Ohio), Seth Moulton (D-Mass.).
Like America, the internet as we know it today was conceived in liberty. Now, politicians of both parties hope to stifle it with ill-conceived (and often-unconstitutional) regulatory regimes. Like other…
Just days after President Biden announced that “Bidenomics is about increasing competition, not stifling competition,” the Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice (DOJ) handed down new merger guidelines. As is the case with most everything that comes out of the FTC recently, the new guidelines will, in fact, stifle competition. The new guidelines are vague at best and will discourage economic activity that leads to innovation and investment.
