Even Pennsylvanians Can Now Buy Wine in Grocery Stores, but New Yorkers Still Can't
A bill that would expand wine sales in the Empire State is meeting familiar resistance from entrenched interests.
A bill that would expand wine sales in the Empire State is meeting familiar resistance from entrenched interests.
If the FTC wants to know why there's such a notable lack of competition within America's baby formula market, it ought to ask other parts of the federal bureaucracy.
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The ideology champions the same tired policies that big government types predictably propose whenever they see something they don't like.
An argument that the wasteful law violates the Constitution's Port Preference Clause.
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The credits may be well-intentioned, but they will distort the market and lead to a windfall for U.S. companies.
Industrial policy is never as simple as it seems.
Excessive government interference in the market hurts consumers and thwarts policy goals. It also gets in the way of the government itself.
Volkswagen unveiled a cheap new electric concept car, but protectionist policies mean it's not worthwhile for the company to introduce it in the U.S.
It would result in shortages, decreases in productivity, and higher production costs affecting millions of American workers and nearly every consumer.
Big corporations and entire industries constantly use their connections in Congress to get favors, no matter which party is in power.
Politicians say they want to subsidize various industries, but they sabotage themselves by weighing the policies down with rules that have nothing to do with the plans.
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The president's State of the Union address re-upped a tired, old promise to spend more tax dollars on less infrastructure.
A new proposal to more than triple visa entry fees for performers will harm American audiences and culture.
Shipping industry insiders floated a recommendation to charge critics of the Jones Act with treason, according to documents obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The Inflation Reduction Act extended tax credits for buying electric vehicles, but the requirements will put them out of reach for most customers.
Reformers had two years of unprecedented victories—and then protectionists started using scare tactics to block them
The maritime industry inserted some protectionism into the National Defense Authorization Act.
Unless Congress takes action, those tariffs will return on January 1. And the baby formula shortage hasn't yet passed.
Despite Tyler Cowen's argument for the elite theory, the real divisions have much more to do with the New Right's nationalism.
State governments already want relief from the "Buy American" mandates included in the bipartisan infrastructure bill.
Amid initial concerns about the 'Buy American' electric vehicle tax credit, the European Union is now considering further protectionist retaliation.
The biggest beneficiaries of economic growth are poor people. But the deepest case for economic growth is a moral one.
The Buy American program, used to encourage the buying of American made electric vehicles, not only limits access to EVs but risks a trade war with the E.U.
No one is confused about whether Tofurky is turkey.
Joe Biden adopted his predecessor’s protectionism, threatening our peace and prosperity.
That's in addition to advocating for opponents of the law to be charged with treason.
There’s nothing patriotic about a law lining the pockets of cargo companies at the expense of consumers.
He's fully licensed, but not in the right state.
The restrictions are clearly intended to crush breweries in order to protect restaurants.
It’s only one vessel, but the U.S. domestic shipping cartel, protected by the awful Jones Act, is screaming about it.
The island is begging the Biden administration to allow foreign ships to bring fuel to help restore power. But entrenched maritime interests balk at competition.
Denver blames food trucks for late night chaos, while a city councilman in Alabama says he straight up wants to protect restaurants.
Notwithstanding federal pot prohibition, the appeals court says, the requirement violated the Commerce Clause's implicit prohibition of anti-competitive interstate trade barriers.
New rules from the state alcohol control board could grind breweries into insolvency.
Atlanta, Sioux Center, and too many other cities and towns are still treating food trucks like second-class businesses.
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The agency is now taking small steps to allow foreign formula manufacturers to import their goods into the U.S.
Why do we have tariffs on imported formula in the middle of a shortage?
Tariffs requested by an "artisanal solar boutique" based in San Jose might jeopardize 45,000 jobs and halve America's future solar panel deployments.
The White House is making it harder for people to request waivers from cost-increasing Buy America requirements in the $1.2 trillion infrastructure law.
An emergency measure proposed by Council Chairman Phil Mendelson would have given city officials the power to fine and close the city's unregulated cannabis "gifting shops."
Guess whose fault it is that it’s so expensive to ship goods to America? (Spoiler: The U.S. government's.)
Protectionist policies are why the U.S. has few physicians and high prices.
Both Republicans and Democrats want to address poverty with big government.
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