By Connor D. Wolf President Obama used his pen and phone to raise the minimum wage for new federal contractors, but a federal workers’ union isn’t satisfied. They ask: Why must the minimum wage hike be limited to new contractors? “It was shameful that so many in the President’s own workforce are forced to work…
By Jonah Bennett The heightened controversy over the status of the US Export-Import Bank has been taken up by the House Financial Services Committee Wednesday in an effort to come to terms on whether the bank’s charter will be renewed in September. The US Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im), an 80-year-old federal agency, provides government-backed loans to…
LISTEN TO TLR’S LATEST PODCAST: by Micah J. Fleck The American Health Care Act, which was touted by establishment Republicans as the perfect Obamacare replacement but the more liberty-minded GOP members in the House and Senate argued as being merely “Obamacare lite,” has been killed. This bodes much better for the libertarians in the GOP…
Economists tend to prefer trade to charity. Charity is fickle because it relies on the transient benevolence of donors or politicians. Charity is best thought of as a tourniquet: a valuable option in a pinch but not a long-term solution. To some, charity is even demeaning because it conveys a sense of helpless incompetence. Charity…
Guy Bentley on October 7, 2015 Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio has given a vigorous defence of Uber and the sharing economy, calling for a cull of federal regulations stifling new businesses. Rubio slammed federal and local regulators for restricting competition and failing to recognize the changing nature of the economy in a pitch to…
Paul’s Bill Would Recognize Executive Orders as “Advisory Only” by Josh Guckert President Obama has on many occasions stated during his time in office that he wants to unilaterally enact gun control measures, but Rand Paul has other plans. The Junior Senator from Kentucky has introduced legislation which would label any Executive Order as “advisory only” until Congress has voted…
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