Don’t Gut Our Military: $150 Billion in Commonsense Proposals to Prevent Sequestration
Unless Congress acts, March 1 will trigger a $55 billion-per-year ($43 billion in 2013, as the fiscal cliff deal delayed the cuts for two months)… Read More
DOE Grant Recipient Fleeces Taxpayers to Benefit Green Investors
Solar Mosaic, a solar microfinancing outfit that received a $2 million Department of Energy (DOE) grant last summer and exploits a 30 percent federal tax… Read More
EPA Gives Green Light for California’s Costly Car Program
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granted a waiver to the state of California to move forward with its Advanced Clean Cars Program. The… Read More
Corporate Welfare for Energy Companies Should Have Gone Off the Cliff
The fiscal cliff deal is not only preventing certain politically motivated energy tax policies from falling off the cliff, but it’s also resurrecting ones that… Read More
Health CareNews
12 Days of Obamacare Surprises: An Optional Medicaid Expansion
Not all surprises are good. When it comes to Obamacare, the original projections are turning into unfortunately different realities. For the past 11 days, Heritage… Read More
12 Days of Obamacare Surprises: Deficit Reduction?
Not all surprises are good. When it comes to Obamacare, the original projections are turning into unfortunately different realities. For the next two days, Heritage… Read More
12 Days of Obamacare Surprises: The Independent Payment Advisory Board
Not all surprises are good. When it comes to Obamacare, the original projections are turning into unfortunately different realities. For the next three days, Heritage… Read More
12 Days of Obamacare Surprises: Increased Employer Penalties
Not all surprises are good. When it comes to Obamacare, the original projections are turning into unfortunately different realities. For the next four days, Heritage… Read More
Bank Profits Soar as Washington Subsidies Flow
Too often, government policies designed to ameliorate a general problem merely benefit a special interest. A case in point, highlighted by Binyamin Applebaum on the… Read More
12 Days of Obamacare Surprises: Exchange Subsidies
Not all surprises are good. When it comes to Obamacare, the original projections are turning into unfortunately different realities. For the next 9 days, Heritage… Read More
Blowing More Taxpayer Money for Offshore Wind
Much of the debate over wind subsidies this past year has been over the extension of the wind production tax credit. But even if the… Read More
A123: It’s Not China’s Government That’s The Problem
China’s largest auto-parts maker just won the bidding for A123 Systems, the bankrupted electric car battery company. It’s time to back the car up and… Read More
Vestas Cuts Plant Hours, Puts Colorado Employees On Unemployment
In an attempt to stave off potential job losses, Vestas Wind Systems reduced hours at two manufacturing plants in Colorado for all hourly staff on… Read More
Farm Subsidies Hurt the Poor Worldwide
Got milk? The European Parliament sure does. European dairy farmers were in Brussels this week to protest proposed changes in dairy regulations. Protestors doused the… Read More
The Wrong Technology: Evidence of Faulty Panels Continues to Mount at Abound Solar
Claims that Chinese solar subsidies killed Abound Solar—and not faulty solar panels made by the company itself—are beginning to wear as thin as the solar… Read More
Time to Remove the Taxpayer Trough from Wind Producers
The meal provided by the taxpayer is over. When pigs finish eating the slop that a farmer put in the trough, they’ll hang around the… Read More
Congress Should Permanently Waive the Ethanol Mandate
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rejected a proposal from a number of governors and federal legislators to partially waive the Renewable Fuels Standard,… Read More
Energy Independence the Free-Market Way
It was clear in pre-election discussion that Americans want energy independence. The most successful means to this end has been the free market—and the release… Read More
News
Green Graveyard: An In-Depth Look at Government’s Bad Bets on 19 Now-Bankrupt Companies
As a follow up to the Green Graveyard overview, this post provides additional information concerning the funding for each of the now-bankrupt green energy companies…. Read More
Green Graveyard: 19 Taxpayer-Funded Failures
While there’s speculation over which federally supported green energy company may be the next to declare bankruptcy, plenty have already gone belly up. In one… Read More
America Doesn’t Need a Federal Department of Subsidies
Politicians too often confuse “free money” with “free markets”—that is, they consider themselves pro-business when they work deals that make some businesses happy, even though… Read More
Installing Windmills Doesn’t Make the Wind Blow
A tweet from the Department of Energy (DOE) gives a link to a DOE webpage highlighting a graph from, and giving a link to, a… Read More
President Obama’s Taxpayer-Backed Green Energy Failures
It is no secret that President Obama’s and green energy supporters’ (from both parties) foray into venture capitalism has not gone well. But the extent… Read More
Electric Car Batteries Going Nowhere
Another green-energy-related company built on government subsidies is having trouble keeping its head above water. This time, the scandal surrounds Compact Power, a subsidiary of… Read More
Why Big Bird’s Federal Subsides Need to Go
The call to eliminate federal subsidies to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), such as Governor Mitt Romney’s recent statement, shouldn’t ruffle the famous fowl. After… Read More
Conservatives Outline Policy Agenda Following Presidential Debate
DENVER — Members of The Heritage Foundation’s policy team joined experts from across the country at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Colorado. The event… Read More
VIDEO: Pre-Presidential Debate Highlights Policy Differences
DENVER — Conservatives and progressives duked it out over policy Wednesday morning ahead of the first presidential debate of 2012 at the University of Denver…. Read More
Based on Market Demands, Toyota Says No to New Electric Car
The market demand for all-electric cars envisioned by Toyota Motor Corporation has not materialized according to the company, forcing it to shed a projected battery-powered… Read More
Chinese Auto Subsidies: Hypocrisy from the Obama Administration
The Obama Administration recently filed a case with the World Trade Organization, alleging that China provided at least $1 billion in subsidies to Chinese carmakers… Read More
No More Solyndras Act: Good Start; Room for Improvement
This Friday, the House of Representatives will vote on the No More Solyndras Act, which would prohibit any new loan guarantees from Title XVII of… Read More
