Entitling Professional Sports Through Taxpayer Subsidies
Samuel Staley at the Reason Foundation’s Out of Control Policy blog writes about the cronyism occurring when professional sports teams are subsidized by taxpayers, and gives several examples:...
View ArticleFilm Industry Cronyism
Hester Peirce, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, writes about a case of obvious cronyism between Congress and the film industry: In true Washington fashion, movie industry titans lobbied...
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Crony Baloney Video: Arlington VA Businesses Seek Strict Food Truck Regulations
Kendis Gibson at ABC7 writes and does a video report about local business leaders in Arlington, VA, who are trying to pass regulations to restrict food trucks in their area: Why are these regulations...
View ArticleState Employees Admit To Ghost Employment, Ethics Violations
TheIndyChannel.com reports on state employees enjoying personal gain on the taxpayer dollar: Documents released from the Indiana Office of the Inspector General accused two Indiana State Fair...
View ArticleNYT: So You Think You Can Be a Hair Braider?
Jacob Goldstein at the New York Times writes about the story of Jestina Clayton, an immigrant from Africa, who started her own small business in Utah braiding hair in the traditional African style....
View ArticleCoconuts and Cronyism: A case from the Phillippines
Marc Jayson Cayabyab AND Gian C. Geronimo write an article for GMA News about a long-standing case of cronyism occurring in the Phillippines, a tax on coconut farmers that was ostensibly to help grow...
View ArticlePLF challenges America’s most anti-competitive licensing law
Timothy Sandefur at the Pacific Legal Foundation writes about their new case challenging a blatantly anti-competitive law in Nevada: The statute declares that anyone who applies for permission to run a...
View ArticleVideo: Challenging Atlanta’s Street Vending Monopoly
The Institute for Justice (IJ) is fighting for street vendors in Atlanta whose businesses might be taken away from them because of new laws giving a monopoly to a single company. IJ released a great...
View ArticleBig Candy’s Greed
Chris Edwards from Cato at Liberty has recently posted this article, in which he analyzes the current crisis with the sugar subsidies. In the article he exposes the current level of greed and...
View ArticleAn Ohio judge says Elmwood Place’s automated speed-traffic cameras are “a...
James Eng from MSN News has recently reported an egregious case of collusion in Elmwood Place, Ohio. Recently a judge called the automated speeding cameras “a scam that motorists can’t win.”...
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