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Tech & Innovation

When Recycling Innovation Outpaces Regulation

A consistent federal framework could make it significantly easier for technology companies to scale their products and operate efficiently across the country.

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Op-Eds

The High Cost of California’s Proposed Billionaire Tax

The Cato Institute shows that the rich pay the vast majority of federal taxes. The bottom 50 percent of taxpayers, by contrast, account for just 3 percent of federal income tax revenue.

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Op-Eds

CEQA is standing in the way of the California Dream

That goal may sound reasonable on paper. In practice, CEQA has increasingly become a tool for obstructing housing development, exacerbating California’s housing shortage and keeping costs stubbornly high.

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Free Market

In Defense of Risky Decisions: Prediction Markets and Freedom of Choice

We allow people to eat sugary foods despite the adverse health effects. The same respect for individual choice should extend to other risky behaviors.

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Education Empowerment

“I Just Don’t Think We Can Argue With the Outcomes”

A family pulled their daughter from a school that shut them out. When an Arkansas amendment threatened that choice, parents kept it off the ballot.

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Free Market

“100% Self-Made”

Kids can handle more than we plan for. They can figure out what their supplies cost, talk to strangers, shake off a slow day, and work out what to try next. What most of them are missing is a first yes: someone who puts the idea in front of them and then gets out of the way.

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