A recent Washington Times editorial quotes me saying as much:
“Washington spends about $92 billion each year on corporate welfare,” Ryan Young of the Competitive Enterprise Institute told The Washington Times. “Imagine if that money was left in the economy instead of squandered on companies that couldn’t make it in the marketplace.”
Read the whole thing here.
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Sometime between 4:00 and 5:00 EST, I’ll appear on the Business Talk Radio Network’s Mike Siegel Show. We’ll be talking about the size and scope of the regulatory state. I believe you can listen live online here.
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I can’t figure out how to embed the video in this post, so here’s the link to that WSJ interview about Spirit Airlines’ “Department of Transportation Unintended Consequences Fee.”
Larry Sabato was the guest on the segment before mine. He’s a tough act to follow; please feel free to refrain from telling me how I did.
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At about 5:24 EST tonight, I’ll be on Wall Street Journal‘s live tv show to talk about Spirit Airlines’new “Department of Transportation Unintended Consequences” fee for all ticketbuyers. The fee is a snarky response to a new DOT regulation limiting re-booking fees, and I blogged about it here.
The link to the live feed is here if you’d like to watch.
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I am quoted in an editorial in today’s New York Sun:
Ryan Young of the Competitive Enterprise Institute wrote to say that America itself is not entirely a “free-market fundamentalist nation. “Federal, state and local governments combine to spend roughly 40% of GDP,” Mr. Young pointed out, “and that doesn’t count the cost of compliance with federal regulations.”
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Tomorrow morning I will appear on Pittsburgh Now, the morning news show on Pittsburgh’s NBC affiliate. Chris Moore is the host. We’ll be talking about the teacher’s pension scandal in Illinois, which I wrote about here. The segment will start a little after 10:00 am EST.
Seeing as I’m in DC, it will be a phone interview. They might put my picture on screen if they want to give viewers a good fright, but I will not be in the studio.
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Tomorrow morning at 9:35 am EST, I will appear on Mark Carbonaro’s show on KION 1460 AM (Salinas, California). We’ll talk about Lemonade Freedom Day, and general regulatory silliness. You can listen live by clicking on the link at the top of the station’s home page.
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The Wall Street Journal‘s “Notable and Quotable” section quotes this blogger on Lemonade Freedom Day. The link is here, or you can go to page A13 of the print edition.
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President Obama has issued two executive orders this year directing agencies to comb through their books and repeal unneeded or harmful rules. The first one repealed about 30 rules, and will save about $1.5 billion.
It will be about four months before the second rule’s savings become known. My hunch is it will be in the same ballpark as the first executive order.
In this short article and accompanying radio segment (see the upper right hand side for the audio), I put the executive orders in context and put forward an idea that would save even more money.
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Tomorrow morning at 8:30 am, I’ll be on the Talk of Connecticut to talk about Congress’ economic illiteracy and why good intentions don’t necessarily bring good results.
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Inertia Wins! 