Saturday, November 09, 2013

The Heritage Insider: 11/9/13

November 9, 2013
Latest Studies: 46 new items, including a Rio Grande Foundation report on containing college costs, and a Mercatus Center report on anti-free trade myths
Notes on the Week: Cash for clunkers’ familiar failure, health care entitlements can be repealed, the bravest school choice activist, and more
To Do: Share your ObamaCare story

Latest Studies
Budget & Taxation
An Honest Accounting of the Corporate Income Tax – American Enterprise Institute
When Nonprofits Compete with Businesses: Leveling an Unfair Playing Field – Capital Research Center
Additional Infrastructure Spending Would Employ Few New Workers – The Heritage Foundation
Fannie and Freddie: What Record of Success? – The Heritage Foundation
GSE Reform: Trust Funds or Slush Funds? – The Heritage Foundation
Trends in North Carolina State Spending: Total State Spending Has Grown After Both Inflation and Per Capita Adjustments – John Locke Foundation
A Distributional Analysis of Fiscal Policies in the United States, 2000-2012 – Tax Foundation
Ohio House Ways and Means Considers Substantially Watered-Down Municipal Income Tax Reform – Tax Foundation
Crime, Justice & the Law
The “Mens Rea” Component Within the Issue of the Over-Federalization of Crime – Federalist Society
Sexual Assault in the Military: Understanding the Problem and How to Fix It – The Heritage Foundation
Economic and Political Thought
The New Deal and Modern American Conservatism: A Defining Rivalry – Hoover Institution
The Political Debate We Need to Have – Hoover Institution
Economic Growth
The Reality of the ‘Real Wage’ – American Enterprise Institute
Cash for Clunkers: An Evaluation of the Car Allowance Rebate System – Brookings Institution
What Has Happened to the Incomes of the Middle Class and Poor? – e21 – Economic Policies for the 21st Century
Supply and Demand: Why Job Growth Remains Sluggish – The Heritage Foundation
Education
Gains in Teacher Quality: Academic Capabilities of the U.S. Teaching Force Are on the Rise – Education Next
The Louisiana Scholarship Program: Contrary to Justice Department Claims, Student Transfers Improve Racial Integration – Education Next
The Softer Side of ‘No Excuses’ – Education Next
The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American Education From Itself – Encounter Books
A New Model for Containing College Costs: The Lean College – Rio Grande Foundation
Foreign Policy/International Affairs
Greater Iraqi–American Cooperation Needed on Counterterrorism, Syria, and Iran – The Heritage Foundation
Time to Get North Korea Sanctions Right – The Heritage Foundation
Health Care
Fantasy Despot Syndrome and Healthcare.gov – American Enterprise Institute
RX for R&D: Repealing the Medical Device Tax – American Enterprise Institute
Potential Impact of Delayed Access to Five Oncology Drugs in Canada – Fraser Institute
Obamacare’s Moral Blindness – Hoover Institution
The Silent Serial Killer – Hoover Institution
Information Technology
It’s Time to Remove the Costly Integration Ban – Free State Foundation
Why the FCC Needs to Get With the Times, Finally – Free State Foundation
Lessons in Municipal Broadband from Lafayette, Louisiana – Reason Foundation
International Trade/Finance
Solving the Sugar Subsidy Problem – Institute for Policy Innovation
The Benefits of Free Trade: Addressing Key Myths – Mercatus Center
Labor
The Obamacare ‘Oops!’: Unions Got the Healthcare Program Passed, Now Want to Exempt Themselves – Capital Research Center
National Security
South Korea: Responding to the North Korean Threat – American Enterprise Institute
A Strong and Focused National Security Strategy – The Heritage Foundation
Steadfast Jazz 2013: U.S. Lackluster Contribution Undermines U.S. Interests in Eastern Europe – The Heritage Foundation
Natural Resources, Energy, Environment, & Science
Electricity Choice Policies in Michigan: Comment on “Readying Michigan to Make Good Energy Decisions: Electric Choice” – Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Philanthropy
The Eugene and Agnes Meyer Foundation: The Real Legacy of the Washington Post – Capital Research Center
Regulation & Deregulation
Payday Lending: Protecting or Harming Consumers? – Reason Foundation
The Constitution/Civil Liberties
Bailey v. Maine Commission on Governmental Ethics: Another Step Toward the End of Political Privacy – Federalist Society
Bond v. United States: Federalism’s Limits on the Treaty Power – The Heritage Foundation
ENDA Threatens Fundamental Civil Liberties – The Heritage Foundation
Gun Control in the Third Reich: Disarming the Jews and “Enemies of the State” – Independent Institute
Welfare
Solving Egypt’s Subsidy Problem – Cato Institute
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