Yearly Archives: 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

Wyoming Homeland Security Series – Part 1: An Introduction to People, Policies and Funding That Define Homeland Security in Wyoming

  By JP Eichmiller  December 27, 2011 What does Homeland Security mean to the citizens of Wyoming one decade after 9/11? Over the last several months, Wyoming Liberty Group investigative reporter JP Eichmiller was allotted unprecedented access into the inner-workings … Continue reading

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Bankrupt Pension Plans Drive Businesses Out of the State – A Lesson for Wyoming

Companies were talking about leaving the state of Illinois. Chicago Mercantile Exchange and Sears’ corporate headquarters were among the companies looking to head to states farther away — from fiscal collapse that is. Indiana governor Mitch Daniels is busy promoting … Continue reading

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What Can Illinois Teach Wyoming about Tax Competition?

 I had the dubious “privilege” of growing up in Sweden, infamous for having the world’s highest taxes. I actually knew people who sincerely said, after they got a raise, that “I’m so happy I make more money – now I … Continue reading

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Random Act of Sanity: Congress Defunds Lightbulb Ban

 In a random act of sanity, Congress has actually done something for economic freedom. It’s not much, but nevertheless. From the Washington Times: Congressional negotiators struck a deal Thursday that overturns the new rules that were to have banned sales … Continue reading

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Big government and big business conspire to restrain Internet sales

Adam Smith, the father of modern capitalism, loved the free market system but distrusted businessmen. Back in 1776 he said, “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy … Continue reading

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Wyoming Liberty Group files Friend of the Court Brief in Texas Free Speech Case

Happy Bill of Rights Day! Around the turn of the 19th Century, while covering a tort case that had reached appeal, the British newspaper The Spectator commented: “What may be the common law on the case we do not pretend … Continue reading

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What Sen. Enzi really thinks about who owns your money

Back in October 2011, the Wyoming Liberty Group called on Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo) to reconsider his support of Sen. Richard Durbin’s (D.Ill) Main Street Fairness Act, an Act that would force Internet sellers to collect state sales taxes on Internet … Continue reading

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A Medical Freedom Island in a Nanny State Sea

Today, if government doesn’t regulate something, you can be sure someone will ask why not. From heating pads to home improvement to health care, the demand for government regulations has given politicians and bureaucrats the excuse to take more and … Continue reading

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Income equality makes everyone poorer

People often ask, “Why are some people poor?” They should be asking, “Why are some people rich?” Over the millennia, poverty has been the natural condition for humanity. However, in countries that have experienced a free market system most people … Continue reading

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What Government Destroys, Economic Freedom Can Rebuild

Back in the late ’60s, South Bronx in New York looked like a war zone. Its ruins included burned-out apartment buildings, a population living under appalling conditions, rampant crime and widespread despair. The left was hard at work at the … Continue reading

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Yearly Archives: 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009