California’s Latest Hustle: Utility Bills Based on Ratepayers’ Income
California’s legislature wants to combine the idea of two-part price discrimination with a soak-the-rich mentality in charging for utilities. What possibly could go wrong?
California’s legislature wants to combine the idea of two-part price discrimination with a soak-the-rich mentality in charging for utilities. What possibly could go wrong?
When the government wants to make something more affordable, that usually means new subsidies, laws, and regulations that drive up the real price. Higher medical prices will mean more medical bankruptcies.
Congress and the courts have eviscerated the Constitution to empower police dogs. The injustices are massive, but the authorities don't care.
For the past fifty years, Nigeria’s government has required young people to “serve” for a year under the National Youth Service Corp. This more resembles slavery than service.
Bolivia has been mired in poverty, hyperinflation, and state control of the economy for generations. It is time for a change, and the Alasitas Fair is leading the way.
While Connecticut authorities call on "experts" to help them quell the state's housing shortage, they fail to consider the policies that have caused it.
It’s official: the Department of Treasury is now issuing debt at pandemic levels. It’s worth noting the pandemic record was double the previous record, which had stood for 231 years.
F.A. Hayek’s classic The Road to Serfdom was published eighty years ago. Critics then called Hayek a “reactionary.” Today, he is looking more and more like a prophet.
Responding to an overwhelming groundswell of grassroots pressure, Gov.