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We Need Government That Threatens Fewer People With Bats

Market Institute President Charles Sauer has a new column in RealClearMarkets arguing that Washington’s growing appetite for regulation is becoming a bipartisan problem. In “We Need Government That Threatens Fewer People With Bats,” Sauer takes aim at the increasingly common political instinct to respond to new businesses, technologies, and industries Read more…

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You can't tax your way to prosperity by taxing the people who create it. California's proposed wealth tax would drive away the very investment, businesses, and entrepreneurs that keep its economy growing. If you want a stronger economy, stop punishing success and let people build

Steve Forbes @SteveForbesCEO

Stanford economists say California's proposed 5% wealth tax could cost the state $38.9 billion in lost revenue. Democrats never seem to learn: Wealth taxes simply redistribute existing capital by discouraging the investment, entrepreneurship, and risk-taking needed to create

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Missouri is making the same mistake we’re seeing across the country: treating innovation like a loophole that needs to be closed.

Prediction markets are a new financial product, not a sportsbook with better branding.

Let entrepreneurs compete. Let consumers choose. Stop trying

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The Senator sounded the alarm on Frontier–Spirit.

Then she opposed JetBlue–Spirit.

Regulators blocked that deal to “preserve competition.”

Now Spirit is gone.

So maybe before sounding the same alarm over DoorDash–Instacart, it’s worth remembering what “saving competition”

Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren

NEW: DoorDash just announced a $17 BILLION deal to buy Instacart.

That could mean higher food prices and lower pay for delivery workers.

We can't let corporate giants put profits over people.

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