This month’s issue of Info Tech & Telecom News contains an article by yours truly on certain states’ attempts to collect sales taxes from out-of-state businesses. Key point:
Economists have known for a long time that when you tax something, you get less of it. Apparently some state legislators want less commerce in their states.
Even before publication, the book SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance is the topic of hot debate - on economists’ blogs, including Krugman’s, on Amazon, and, of course, on environmental sites. SuperFreakonomics’ authors are Steven D. Levitt, a professor of economics at the University of Chicago and Stephen J. Dubner, a former writer and editor at The New York Times Magazine.
The heat was generated by Chapter 5 of the book, which deals with global…
Welcome to Episode 29 of the LibertyWeek podcast, where your hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist are happy to slave away in front of hot mikes to bring you the best in news and views. After a brief celebration of twenty-five years of Yuri Andropov being dead, we focus on the 900 billion lb. gorilla in the room, the economic stimulus bill making its way through Congress. Alternate references to it as porkulous, the Stimulus to Nowhere and the Mother of All…
I wrote recently of California’s declaration to allow tropical forestry carbon offsets so that California businesses wouldn’t have to actually reduce their emissions, but I suggested that guilt-laden Californians could be doing more harm than good. The countries where they will supposedly be investing in forests have proven records for corruption.
I now feel vindicated. Reuters Africa reports that yesterday at the EU climate talks:
Brazil ruled out on Thursday letting rich countries offset their greenhouse gas emissions by helping to save the Amazon rain…
From our good friends at FreedomWorks comes a video alerting viewers to a proposal from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) that would create a new federal database of e-commerce transactions:
Do you use Ebay, PayPal or Amazon? Senator Charles Grassley wants to know. Grassley plans to create a new government database that tracks businesses online sales. His law would require companies to report sensitive detailed information about millions of online purchases.
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