LATEST from Center for Freedom and Prosperity on Youtube: Labor Department numbers show that the Obama Administrations $787 billion stimulus was a flop. Instead of holding the unemployment rate at 8 percent or below, the jobless rate soared to 10 percent. Now there is discussion of second so-called stimulus, which politicians are calling a jobs bill. But making government bigger, this CF&P Foundation video explains, is a recipe for long-run stagnation and lower living standards, regardless of what the policy is named.

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Washington, D.C., October 6, 2009―In the wake of a revelation by a key research institution that it destroyed its original climate data, the Competitive Enterprise Institute petitioned EPA to reopen a major global warming proceeding.

In a declaration filed with CEI’s petition, Cato Institute scholar and climate scientist Patrick Michaels calls CRU’s revelation “a totally new element” that “violates basic scientific principles, and “throws even more doubt” on the claims of global warming alarmists.

Govt-Funded Research Unit Destroyed Original Climate Data
http://cei.org/news-release/2009/10/05/govt-funded-research-unit-destroyed-original-climate-data

See also: Patrick J. Michaels: The Dog Ate Global Warming

Dr. Richard W. Rahn would like to share a new video of the Center for Freedom and Prosperity "The Empirical Evidence Against Big Government." The video presents real-world data and research showing that the burden of government spending is far too high – not only in the United States (where the Bush-Obama policies have increased the federal budget by more than 100 percent), but also in other nations where government budgets sometimes consume more than one-half of an economy's output.

Link to Press Release:
http://www.freedomandprosperity.org/press/p09-15-09/p09-15-09.shtml

Dr. Richard Rahn would like to share with you a new video, produced by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation, "Eight Reasons Why Big Government Hurts Economic Growth." The video lists the key reasons why excessive government spending undermines economic performance, and uses common-sense language and analysis to demonstrate the negative consequences of excessive government spending.

More at: http://www.freedomandprosperity.org/videos/videos.shtml

A radically different view of global warming science has emerged in recent years contrary to the shrill gloom-and-doom projections that are so popular in Washington and elsewhere. In the new book Climate of Extremes: Global Warming Science They Don't Want You to Know, Cato scholar and University of Virginia scientist Patrick Michaels explains this consistent alternative view of climate change, which has arisen in the peer-reviewed scientific literature yet receives little public attention. Why, for example, have the last 12 years shown no net surface warming? What does this say about projections from the United Nations- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change? What's the relationship between hurricanes and global warming? Are editors who issue dramatic projections rewarded over those who publish findings of more moderate impacts? Michaels will demonstrate evidence for modest climate change impacts and propose that we continue our adaptation to these changes.

http://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=5761

From the Center for Freedom and Prosperity: Richard Rahn would like to share a new video Free Markets and Small Government Promote Prosperity, released by the Center for Freedom and Prosperity:

Keynesian Economics Is Wrong: Bigger Gov't Is Not Stimulus
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoxDyC7y7PM

From the CF&P Foundation: Dr. Richard W. Rahn would like to share the Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation's new video, Obama's So-Called Stimulus: Good For Government, Bad For the Economy:

Link: http://www.freedomandprosperity.org/videos/videos.shtml

Reuters reports that Obama may propose as much as $1 trillion (yes, trillion) of new spending, which would be in addition to the huge expansion of government under Bush, is it true (as Richard Nixon once remarked) that “we are all Keynesians now?

Not quite. Here’s a new video that explains why Keynesian “stimulus” proposals are theoretically misguided. The video also provides real-world evidence showing that bigger government does not work.

http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2008/12/15/are-we-all-keynesians-now/

CATO Institute har for nylig udgivet en bog om skattekonkurrence af Chris Edwards and Daniel J. Mitchell med titlen Global Tax Revolution: The Rise of Tax Competition and the Battle to Defend It. Den er fuld af statistisk materiale samt interessante historier, der dokumenterer reaktionerne på et ikke-konkurrencedygtigt skattetryk. Hvis man bruger tid på at skrive om skattetrykkets negative konsekvenser i Danmark i dagspressen, kan bogen tjene til bidrag til nye vinkler på debatten. Helt afgørende er det dog også, at man sætter sig ind i hvilke principper, der bør afgrænse (eller eventuelt sætte en stopper for) beskatning. COIN's indstilling er at beskatning er en krænkelse af den private ejendomsret. Mere inspiration finder man her.

Se også 180grader.dk: Selvskabsskatten presses af international konkurrence.

Both presidential candidates want to do more to address the threat of climate change. In your opinion, what is the best way to tackle climate change from a public policy standpoint?

[Patrick J. Michaels:]

- Do the politically incorrect and seemingly impossible thing: nothing right now. No carbon tax. No cap-and-trade hidden tax. No emissions cap. Why? First, the rate of warming is very modest, meaning that there is plenty of time to develop new or modified forms of energy production that will emit less carbon dioxide. If those are desired goods (and efficient products generally are), preserving the capital for investment in them (by individuals) rather than taking it away for government to invest (with taxes) is a more efficient way to get to a more efficient future. Read more here:
http://www.cato.org/pubs/catosletter/catosletterv6n4.pdf (page 6)