Instead of squandering $35,000-$50,000 per student of government schools that produce bad test scores, divvy up the money and give families some type of voucher or educational savings account that can be used to pay tuition at higher-performing private schools. Families could opt to stay in...
I’m always happy when people recognize the downside of trade barriers, but blaming Cuba’s economic misery on the partial embargo is akin to a football team blaming its field goal kicker after getting shut out, 56-0. Virtually all economists, including left-leaning ones, agree that bad Cuba...
Similarly, the state claims that Marcus Dupree, a former high school football phenom and professional running back, who was paid to act as a celebrity endorser and motivational speaker, did not perform any contractual services toward the $371,000 he received to purchase and live in a sprawling...
One thing we do know is that total, inflation‐adjusted federal education spending, including K‑12 programs and college student aid, has risen greatly since 1980, from $115 billion to $296 billion. Meanwhile, national test scores for 17‐year‐olds have been basically flat… Fede...
For the latest evidence that state tax policy influences taxpayer decisions, take a look at the National Football League. …states with millionaire surtaxes like Massachusetts are at a disadvantage in attracting the best free-agent players. …It’s “just another thing you’ve got to contend wit...
Hardly. According to academic research, football teams in high-tax statesare at a disadvantage. On average, they lose two more games per season that teams in low-tax states. And we see similar evidence that taxes have an impact when looking at other sports such asbaseball,track,golf,boxing...
Virginia lawmakers are advancing a measure intended to lure the Washington Commanders to the state by allowing the NFL team to forgo what could be $1 billion or more in future tax payments to help finance a potential new football stadium. The move…is intended to help Virginia secure its firs...
…All three of Oakland’s major professional sports teams — football’s Raiders, basketball’s Golden State Warriors and baseball’s A’s — have deserted the city. This year, In-N-Out closed its Oakland location, the first time the burger chain had shuttered a store in three-quarters of...
The problem with a federal top-down approach of this sort is that such a constraint could limit the efficacy of the program. …imposing a new rule that restricts how states designate Targeted Employment Areas will only make EB-5 more of a political football than it already is. Creating a ...
Lawrence H. White of George Mason University, offers a different reason for this staying power in his instructive 2012 bookThe Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and Experiments of the Last Hundred Years: namely, that Keynes’s alleged solution to the Great Depression offered hope...