Taxes, Trade, Regulation &
the Economy
- National
Policy Analysis #454:
The Medical Liability Crisis Affects Us All by Edmund F. Haislmaier
- National
Policy Analysis #453: SUVs: How Safe Are They? by Amy Ridenour
- National
Policy Analysis #451:
Say "No" to Terrorists By Saying "Yes" to
ANWR by Amy Ridenour
- Press
Release: Statement
of The National Center for Public Policy Research on the March
5 Asbestos Hearing in the U.S. Senate - 3/5/03
- Talking
Points on Taxes: Bush's
New Plan for Tax Relief & Economic Growth
- National
Policy Analysis #444:
Government "Scrooge" Ruining Breast Cancer Victim's
Christmas by Christopher Burger - December 2002
- Political
Money Monitor #30:
campaign finance reforms opposed, edited by David Almasi - December
19, 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #443:
Organized Labor's Campaign Against Wal-Mart: No Altruism Here
by Amy Ridenour - December 2002
- New
Environmental Justice Study Released: Smart Growth and Its Effects on Housing
Markets: The New Segregation - November 2002 (full text)
- Press
Release: New Study
Says Minorities and Poor Harmed by Anti-Sprawl Policies - November
21, 2002
- Press
Release: Senator Tom
Daschle Should Praise, Not Attack, Talk Radio Hosts and America's
Diverse Media - November 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #438:
Profiting From the Work of Others: Why Weakening Prescription
Drug Patent Protection is Bad Public Policy by Eric Peters -
October 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #437:
In Case of the Diluting Druggist, No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
by Horace Cooper - October 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #436:
When It Comes to Safeguarding Chemical Facilities, the EPA is
No Defense Department by Amy Ridenour - October 2002
- Ten
Second Response #81502:
Senator Joe Lieberman Says Property Belongs First To Government,
Not The People by Tom Randall - 8/15/02
- National
Policy Analysis #426:
EPA's Regulatory Turnaround an Example of Compassionate Conservatism
in Action by Syd Gernstein - August 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #421:
Lawyers vs. Amusement Parks: Summer May Never be the Same by
Amy Ridenour - July 2002
- Ten
Second Response #72402:
Daschle Admits Logging Projects Can Help Prevent Forest Fires
by Christopher Burger - 7/24/02
- Ten
Second Response #72302:
TSR Extra - Recess Notes: Answers to Questions on Common Environmental
Questions - 7/23/02
- Press
Release: EPA Policies
Expose Americans to Deadly Infections - July 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #419:
Keep the Statue of Liberty Free: An Argument for Congressional
Oversight of U.N. Land Designations in the U.S. by Amy Ridenour
- July 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #411:
Closing the New Digital Divide: African-Americans Call Upon the
FCC to Allow Improved High-Speed Internet Access by John Meredith
- May 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #410:
Lack of Respect for Law and Private Property Rights Undermines
Future of Democratic Capitalism in Russia by Amy Ridenour - May
2002
- National
Policy Analysis #408:
Asbestos Lawsuits By Healthy Patients to Siphon Billions From
U.S. Economy by Amy Ridenour - May 2002
- Legal
Briefs #22: For Russia's
Sake, It's Time for Legal Reform - May 15, 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #405:
Needed: A 21st Century Anti-Trust Policy for a 21st Century Economy
by Amy Ridenour - May 2002
- New
Visions Commentary:
Slavery Reparations Aren't a "Free Lunch" by Michael
King - May 2002
- New
Visions Commentary:
Who's Afraid of the "No Fear" Bill? by Syd Gernstein
- May 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #404: Asbestos Lawsuits: Putting Retirements
at Risk by Amy Ridenour - April 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #398
- Postal Security: A Modest Proposal by Amy Ridenour - March
2002
- Ten
Second Response #21302b:
Interior Department Proposes Joint Federal, Environmentalist
Land Grab Via Tax Code by Gretchen Randall - February 13,
2002
- Ten
Second Response #21202:
Senators Propose Dangerous Increase in Fuel Efficiency Standards
and Regulatory Phase-Out of SUVs, Minivans and Light Trucks by
Gretchen Randall - February 12, 2002
- National
Policy Analysis Paper #393:
Fuel Efficiency Standards: What to Do Next? by Gretchen
Randall -February 2002
- National
Policy Analysis Paper #392:
Global Warming: Administration Could Snatch Defeat From the
Jaws of Victory by Tom Randall - February 2002
- Ten
Second Response #21102:
Stay the Course: President Bush Should Continue Sticking with
Science on Global Warming by Tom Randall - February 11, 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #391:
Stop Worrying About Yucca Mountain by Gerald E. Marsh
and George Stanford - February 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #390:
Let's Hold Global Warming Forecasters Accountable... Brazilian-Style
by Tom Randall - February 2002
- Political
Money Monitor #28:
Campaign Finance Regulation Faces Vote in House - February
11, 2002
Ten Second Response #20802b: Bush
Proposes "Charter Forests" by Gretchen Randall
- February 8, 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #389:
Who Will Monitor the Monitor? Commission on Civil Rights Chairman's
Uncivil Manner Screams for Scrutiny by David Almasi - February
2002
- Ten
Second Response #20802:
Union of Concerned Scientists Pushes Fuel Efficiency at Expense
of Auto Safety by Christopher Burger - February 8, 2002
- Ten
Second Response #20402
- National Research Council Reports Higher Water Levels Not
Needed for Klamath Basin Fish by Gretchen Randall - February
4, 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #388:
New Research Indicates the Earth May Be Cooling by Amy
Ridenour - February 2002
- New
Visions Commentary:
Which Uncle Tom Am I? by Mike Green - January 2002
- New
Visions Commentary:
Brownfields Revitalization Cuts Urban Blight, Suburban Sprawl
by Syd Gernstein - January 2002
- Ten
Second Response #12802b:
League of Conservation Voters Gets It Wrong on Bush Record
by Tom Randall - January 28, 2002
- Ten
Second Response #12802:
Cattle Growers' Association Wins Suit Against Endangered Species
Act Enforcement by Gretchen Randall - January 28, 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #387:
A Different Standard for the Powerful Means No Environmental
Justice From Washington by Syd Gernstein - January 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #386:
The Greatest Unfounded Health Scares of Recent Times, Part
I: DDT by by Adam J. Lieberman (1967-1997) and Simona C.
Kwon, M.P.H.- January 2002
- Ten
Second Response #12302
- Senator John Kerry's Energy Plan Disagrees with Facts and
Himself by Tom Randall - January 23, 2002
- Ten
Second Response #12202:
President Bush Urges Senate to Approve Energy Bill to Protect
Jobs by Tom Randall - January 22, 2002
- Ten
Second Response #11702:
Sierra Club & NRDC Urge Calls to White House about Clean
Air Rules and New Source Review by Gretchen Randall - January
17, 2002
- National
Policy Analysis #385:
Brownfields Revitalization Cuts Urban Blight, Suburban Sprawl
by Syd Gernstein - January 2002
National Policy Analysis #384: Enron and the Environmental
Movement: Global Warming Politics Makes for Strange Bedfellows
by Amy Ridenour - January 2002
2001 and Earlier Index
- Relief
Report Regulatory Newsletter: Special Holiday Edition - December
2001
- New
Visions Commentary: Minimum Wage Increases: Although Not Designed
to be Racist, They Simply Are - October 2001
- Relief
Report Newsletter #101: Nuclear Power in the Age of Terrorism;
Veterans & ANWR - November 13, 2001
- Scoop
Newsletter #222: Set a Place for Freedom at Your Thanksgiving
Table - November 9, 2001
- Scoop
#221 - 11/5/01
- Ten
Second Response Jim Jefford's New Proposed "Multi-Pollutant"
Bill Would Cost Jobs And Billions Of Dollars - 11/5/01
- National
Policy Analysis #373: They Also Serve: Terrorists Confronted
by the Patriotic Fervor of a Free Market by Amy Ridenour - November
2001
- National
Policy Analysis #370: Is it Better to Have a Raise or a Job?
Why a Minimum Wage Hike Would Increase Unemployment, Harm Undertrained
Workers by Amy Ridenour - October 2001
- Budget
Watch #43 - October 6, 2001
- National
Policy Analysis #359: Unocal Uses Regulatory Process for Profit;
Stands to Make Billions by David Ridenour - September 2001
- National
Policy Analysis #358: Lawsuit Against Atlanta Braves is Way Off
Base: Suing, Not Baseball, is Becoming Our National Pastime by
Amy Ridenour - September 2001
- National
Policy Analysis #357: Global Warming Policies Could Unfairly
Harm Minorities and the Poor by Rep. John Peterson (R-PA) - September
2001
- Legal
Briefs #20 - September 4, 2001
- National
Policy Analysis #353: Mr. President, Use your Bully Pulpit: Bush
is Right on Environmental Issues, But Fails to Say So by Tom
Randall - August 2001
- New
Visions Commentary: Should African-Americans Favor Privatizing
Social Security? by Dr. B.B. Robinson - August 2001
- National
Policy Analysis #348: Patients' Bill of Rights Could Provide
Patients With a Bigger Health Care Bill by Syd Gernstein - July
2001
- National
Policy Analysis #347: Medicare: An Alphabet Soup of Programs
Lacking Proper Nutrition For Patients by David Ridenour - July
2001
- National
Policy Analysis #346: Bush's Rx Drug Proposal Will Help Seniors
without Expanding the Federal Bureaucracy by Amy Ridenour - July
2001
- National
Policy Analysis #345: In the Klamath Basin, Farmers and Ranchers
are Becoming the Real Endangered Species by Gretchen Randall
- July 2001
- Political
Money Monitor #26 - July 12, 2001
- National
Policy Analysis #343: Campaign to Save Our Environment Plays
Loose with the Truth on Arsenic by Tom Randall - July 2001
- Press
Release: National Center for Public Policy Research Announces
New Additions to Environmental, Energy and Regulatory Policy
Staff and the Opening of New Office in Chicago - June 2001
- Relief
Report Environmental News Tips Newsletter #96 - June 19, 2001
- National
Policy Analysis #338: Energy Crisis Spreads: Aluminum Industry
Faces Shutdown, Layoffs Due to Electricity Shortage by John Carlisle
- June 2001
- Scoop
Newsletter #216 - May 31, 2001
- Relief
Report #95 - May 25, 2001
- National
Policy Analysis #335: California's Electric Rate Increase Proposal
Would Shield Voters, But Devastate Business by Amy Ridenour -
May 2001
- Black
Businessmen Speak Out Against Death Taxes: Wealthy Blacks Seeking
to Pass on Hard-Won Legacy to Their Community and Families Join
Project 21's Call for Tax Reform With Newspaper Ad Campaign -
April 2001
- Press
Release: Legislation to Federalize Immigration in the Commonwealth
of the Northern Marianas Islands Amounts to Economic Sanctions
on a U.S. Possession, Says Group - May 2001
- Press
Release: Yet Another Postage Rate Increase is Not Justified -
March 2001
- National
Policy Analysis #330: Agency Under Fire: Did NHSTA Speed Up Rollover
Ratings to Aid Clinton's Personal Injury Lawyer Friends? by Kevin
Martin - March 2001
- National
Policy Analysis #329: Often for Better and Sometimes for Worse,
Lawyers Played Key Role in Black History by Council Nedd - March
2001
- Press
Release: Bush's Carbon Dioxide Decision a Victory for Consumers
- March 2001
- Press
Release: Environmental Regulations Contributing to Air Traffic
Congestion - March 2001
- National
Policy Analysis #311: Mad About the Quality of Air Travel These
Days? Blame Environmentalists - March 2001
- National
Policy Analysis #327: Congressional Intervention in the Internet
Domain Name Process Threatens Independence of the Internet -
February 2001
- National
Policy Analysis #326: After False Starts, Ford Motor Company
Improves its Defense of SUVs by Amy Ridenour - February 2001
- National
Policy Analysis #325: Government Policies Toward Business Help
Push Economy Toward Recession - January 2001
- Scoop
#215 - January 10, 2001
- New
Visions Commentary: Government Attack on Dietary Supplements
Lean on Facts by Council Nedd - December 2000
- New
Visions Commentary: Economic Opportunity and Social Issues Trump
Environment as Top Concern for Poor and Minorities by John Carlisle
- December 2000
- National
Policy Analysis #318: House Chairmanship Contest May Provide
the Ways and Means for the Next President by David Almasi - November
2000
- National
Policy Analysis #308: The Good, the Bad and the Greedy by John
K. Carlisle - September 2000
- National
Policy Analysis #307: The Time for Superfund Reform is Now by
Michael Centrone - September 2000
- Budget
Watch #40 - July 26, 2000
- National
Policy Analysis #293: Split Up the Postal Service, Not Microsoft
by David Ridenour - June 2000
- National
Policy Analysis #288: Needed: Environmental Justice for Minorities
- May 2000
- New
Visions Commentary: Marching Moms Laws Won't Protect My House
by Richard Fair - May 2000
- New
Visions Commentary: Elian and Juan Gonzalez, Clinton, Castro,
Reno, Blacks, Liberals and Freedom by Kevin Martin - May 2000
- Press
Release: National Center Releases New Poll Showing that U.S.D.A.
Organic Food Labels Are Misleading; Proposed organic seal conveys
false information to consumers; Over 70 percent of Americans
want clarification on organic labels - May 2000
- Press
Release: Proposed Louisiana Tax Hike Would Hurt Low-Income Residents
the Most - May 2000
- National
Policy Analysis #287: Proposed 15% Postal Rate Increase Would
Hurt Everyone - May 2000
- New
Visions Commentary: The Elian Snatch and What It Could Mean to
You - April 2000
- 2000
Directory of Environmental and Regulatory Victims
- Project
21 Press Release: Earth Day No Celebration for Black Americans;
African-American Network Seeks Environmental Justice from Overregulation
- April 2000
- National
Policy Analysis #280: Government Intervention in Marketplace
Harms Consumers - February 2000
- National
Policy Analysis #278: Internet Tax Could Doom Web's Freebies
- February 2000
- National
Policy Analysis #273: Single Mom's Christmas Ruined by Government
Scrooge - December 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #270: Environmental Regulations Sending Americans
to the Poorhouse - November 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #267: Congress Should Hold Hearings on FDIC Abuse
of Citizens - October 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #266: Government Blames Gun Manufacturers for
Crime in Public Housing, But Files Lawsuits to Keep Criminals
There - October 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #265: Federal Tobacco Lawsuit Contaminated by
Hypocrisy - October 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #263: Federal Tobacco Lawsuit Could Pave Way
for Litigation Tax on Other Industries - October 1999
- Press
Release: The Federal Tobacco Lawsuit is Bad Economics, Bad Law
& Bad Governing - September 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #262: The Future of Breast Implant Litigation
May Be a Bust for Trial Lawyers - September 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #260: The Internet Works Best Without Government
Regulation - August 1999
- Press
Release: Administration, Democratic Party Should Cooperate in
Investigation of Interior Department Officials, Says Group -
August 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #257: Put a Brake on Government Lawsuits: Government
Lawsuits Bypass Elected Representatives and Aren't the Best Way
to Solve Social Problems - July 1999
- Press
Release: Press A Federal Tobacco Lawsuit is Bad Economics, Bad
Law & Bad Governing - July 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #255: A Federal Tobacco Lawsuit: Bad Economics,
Bad Law and Bad Governing - July 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #253: Americans Losing Control of U.S. Treasures
to United Nations - July 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #244: Latin America Go Home: Tobacco Policies
in Foreign Countries Should Be Made by Foreign Countries, Not
in U.S. Courts - May 1999
- Press
Release: Economic Sanctions Against a Small U.S. Possession are
Unwarranted, Says Group - April 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #242: Congress Considers Tax Limitation Constitutional
Amendment - April 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #238: Americans Are Better Off Than We Think
- April 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #237: Supreme Court and Congress Act Against
Junk Science - April 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #236: Latin American Nations Use U.S. Legal System
for Profit - March 1999
- Project
21 Release: Black Organization Decries Unfair Maryland Taxation
- March 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #232: Jury Tampering in Exxon Valdez Trial Pollutes
America's System of Justice - February 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #231: Clinton's Urban Sprawl Program Threatens
Freedom and the Environment - February 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #230: Billion-Dollar Legal Paydays Hurt Ordinary
Americans - January 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #229: AOL May Put Speed Bump on the Information
Superhighway - January 1999
- National
Policy Analysis #225: Government Regulation Robs Retired Couple
of Home - December 1998
- National
Policy Analysis #220: A Taxing Proposition: Should the Working
Poor Finance New Government Spending? - October 1998
- National
Policy Analysis #216: Crazy Court Cases Show: Bad Science Makes
Bad Law- October 1998
- National
Policy Analysis #215: To Save Lives, End Business As Usual at
the FDA - September 1998
- National
Policy Analysis #214: The Sierra Club and the Trial Lawyers:
Two Peas in a Pod - September 1998
- National
Policy Analysis #213: Politics Tainted Green: EPA Uses Enforcement
as Partisan Political Weapon - September 1998
- Press
Release: Look Past the Scandals: Cut Taxes Now! - September 1998
- Project
21 Release: Protect the Black Middle Class: Cut Taxes Now! -
September 1998
- National
Policy Analysis #204: Congress Takes a Byte Out of the FCC -
July 1998
- Project
21 Release: Blacks say Shays/Meehan Campaign Reform Bill Would
Have Chilling Effect on Minority Political Speech - July 1998
- Press
Release: The Death of the Tobacco Bill is Good News for Food,
Coffee, Cola and Restaurants - June 1998
- National
Policy Analysis #202: Alar Redux: Hollywood Peddles Shaky Science
Once Again - June 1998
- National
Policy Analysis #201: 80% of the Public Isn't Wrong: Big Law
is Overpaid - June 1996
- National
Policy Analysis #198: Ironies of the Tobacco Wars - May 1998
- Taxpayer
Group Issues "Comparison-Report Card" on Senate Commerce
Committee Tax Bill; Senate Bill Earns "F" and is "Strikingly
Similar" to 1993 Clinton Tax Hike - May 1998
- Press
Release: United Way Retracts False Statements About Paycheck
Protection - May 1998
- Taxpayer
Group Thrashes Tobacco Tax Hikers; Tax Hike Nears Previous Bush
and Clinton Increases - May 1998
- National
Policy Analysis #195: Lawyers' Fees in Tobacco Settlement Should
Be Capped - May 1998
- Press
Release: Government Should Stop Actions That Kill Jobs Just to
Make a Member of Congress Look Good - April 1998
- National
Policy Analysis #149 - Demon Tobacco
- National
Policy Analysis #147 - Food and Drug Administration Takes on
the First, Fourth and Fifth Amendments
- National
Policy Analysis #192: Paycheck Protection: Cheap for Business,
Good for Unions - April 1998
- NPA
#188: Government Rules Akin to "Regulatory Racism"
- March 1998
- NPA
#186: Maryland's Stack-the-Deck Legal Approach is Not in Taxpayers'
Best Interest - March 1998
- Tobacco
Industry-State Attorneys General Settlement of June 20, 1997
- Uploaded February 1998
- National
Policy Analysis #180: Welfare for Microsoft? - January 1998
- National
Policy Analysis #179: A Real "It's a Wonderful Life"
- December 1997
- National
Policy Analysis #172: Senator Wellstone Sticks Up for Kids ...Until
Trial Lawyers Ask him for a Favor - September 1997
- National
Policy Analysis #171: Without Reform, Trial Lawyers, Not States
or Individuals, Will Be Biggest Winners from Tobacco Settlement
- September 1997
- Administration
Declines to Investigate When Major Union Exploits Workers - July
1997
- Don't
Let Them Tell You Taxes Haven't Gone Up - July 1997
- Glickman
Summit Yet Another Rout of GOP - Regulatory Reform Reaps Benefits
for Poor - July 1997
- Letter
to Congressman Fox on Funding for the Legal Services Corporation
- May 1997
- Rohrabacher
Letter Describes Status of Patent Legislation - May 1995
- Government
Knows Best? The Clinton FTC vs. The Consumer - April 1997
- National
Policy Analysis #161: Does the U.S. Senate Care About Creating
New Jobs? - April 1997
- Repealing
Rent Control in New York City - April 1997
- President
Clinton's Executive Order Would Reward Unions At the Expense
of Minority Workers - April 1997
- Senate
Should Not Disrupt Plans for Greater Competition in International
Air Travel - April 1997
- What
the Budget Process Reform Act (H.R. 1372) Would Do - April 1997
- How
Many Days Did the American Worker Work for the Government in
1996? - April 1997
- Speech
of National Center President Amy Moritz Ridenour at the Tax Day
Rally - April 1997
- Speech
of National Center Vice President David Ridenour at a Press Conference
on the Tax-Deductibility of Payroll Taxes
- Steve
Forbes Says "Here They Go Again!" Regarding Clinton
Administration's Attempt to Raise Taxes Without Congressional
Approval - April 1997
- Speech
by the Advisory Committee Chairman of Project 21 at a Press Conference
on the Capital Gains Tax - March 1997
- Speech
by the Advisory Committee Chairman of Project 21 at a Press Conference
on the Estate Tax - March 1997
- National
Policy Analysis #160: Regulatory Relief Initiatives During the
104th Congress - February 1997
- The Heritage Foundation's "A Guide
to the Flat Tax: What Everyone in Business Should Know"
examines the significant benefits to business of a flat tax -
February 1997
- Text of
Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's speech on Social Security
reform - December 1996
- National
Policy Analysis #149: Demon Tobacco - September, 1996
- Is President
Clinton's Attack on Tobacco an Attack on the Constitution? -
August 1996
- Free
Market Advocates Praise Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands - July 12, 1996
- Increasing
the Minimum Wage Kills Jobs for Black Teens, Says African-American
Group - July 1996
- What
Chester Thigpen Spent a Lifetime Working For, the Federal Government
Wants to Tax Away - May, 1996
- Eliminating
Corporate Welfare Would Cut Deficit in Half - May, 1996
- Study
Shows Estate Tax Will Kill Many Black-Owned Businesses - May,
1996
- Workers
of America Unite! - For a Minimum Wage Increase? - April, 1996
- Speech
of National Center President at National Tax Day Rally - April
15, 1996
- Are Deficit
Hawks Being Fooled by Big Spenders into Supporting Bill to Take
Transportation Spending Off-Budget? - April 1996
- President
Clinton's Plan to Increase Unemployment: Raise the Minimum Wage
- March 1996
- Should
We Allow the FDA to Regulate Tobacco - February, 1996
- No
to Federal Sugar Program - February 1996
- African-American
Group Applauds Congress for Standing Tall; Says Balancing the
Budget is Worth a Temporary Government Shutdown - November 1995
- Americans
Could Pay for New Automobile Standards With Their Lives - October
1995
- African-American
Group Says HUD is Inneffective, Abusive - September 1995
- If the
Congress Can't Even Kill a Federal Program That Raises Consumer
Prices and Kills Jobs, How Will the US Ever Balance the Budget?
- September 1995
- The
Senate's First Tentative Step Toward Regulatory Reform
- Excessive
Government Regulation: It's Not Just for White Guys Anymore -
June '95
- Congressional
Hearings on Regulatory Barriers to Minority Entrepreneurs - June
1995
- On
Eve of Historic Vote, African-American Group Says: Families Deserve
Tax Relief - March 1995
- Talking
Points on the Economy: Boondoggles #1-6
- Talking
Points on the Economy: Follies of Regulation #1-4
- Talking
Points on the Economy: Government Spending #1-8




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