Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr recently wrote, “Broadcasters that are running hoaxes and news distortions — also known as the fake news — have a chance now to correct course before their license renewals come up. The law is clear. Broadcasters must operate in the public interest, and they will lose their licenses if…
For more than one hundred years, government officials have decried the difficulty many Americans face when they attempt to buy a home. Indeed, housing affordability has become a rallying cry for both progressives and conservatives. Their solutions invariably involve one scheme or another for how to distribute the existing housing stock. Those solutions will fail,…
In his inaugural speech, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said, “We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Conservatives were quick to criticize Mamdani. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wrote on X, “The ‘warmth’ of collectivism that always requires coercion and force. How many dead over the past 100 years…
As I point out in my book, The Affordable Housing Crisis: Causes and Cures, for more than one hundred years housing policy has been dominated by the same flawed framework. Each “new” housing policy simply repeats policies that have previously failed. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is an example. He ran on a promise…
Reducing property taxes for homeowners has become popular in red states. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is backing a plan to phase out non-school property taxes. As a part of his re-election campaign, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is proposing a constitutional amendment to eliminate school district property taxes for homeowners along with four other measures to…
Kristi Noem frequently likes to tell the media that ICE is apprehending “the worst of the worst.” The website for the Department of Homeland Security states, “Under the leadership of President Trump and Secretary Noem, DHS removed more than 670,000 illegal aliens including murderers, pedophiles, rapists, gang members, and terrorists from American communities and another…
Brendan Carr, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has implicitly announced a revival of the Fairness Doctrine. Introduced in 1949, the Fairness Doctrine required broadcasters to present different viewpoints on controversial subjects. When the doctrine was repealed in 1987, radio stations could air programs by conservatives such as Rush Limbaugh without being forced to…
In Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt contends good economics requires us to look beyond the immediate benefits of a policy. While the beneficiaries of a policy are easy to see, those bearing the costs are often unseen. Good economic policy decisions require us to look at the seen and the unseen. Both New York…
Last week, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz was spotted on an airplane. Normally, this wouldn’t attract attention from the media, social or otherwise. However, Cruz was leaving Texas just days before a winter storm was about to do nasty things to the state. And this didn’t sit well with some on social media. One user wrote,…
Last week, Texas officials announced that the state spent more than $1 billion on health care for “illegal immigrants” in fiscal year 2025. This article on FoxNews.com provides us with a slew of statistics to show the financial burden immigrants are imposing on Texas taxpayers. A billion dollars is a lot of money, but it…
Last week, I wrote about the government’s use of carrots and sticks to manipulate the behavior of home buyers. Now, in response to Trump’s new health care plan, a physician is calling for more sticks and fewer carrots regarding health care insurance. Trump has proposed sending money directly to Americans rather than to insurance companies….
In my book, The Affordable Housing Crisis: Causes and Cures, I examine the framework that has dominated government housing policies for the past one hundred years. No matter which party is in power, government housing policies have consistently used a combination of carrots and sticks. Carrots are used to incentivize actions desired by the government,…