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Tim Carney: Apple becomes latest target of the Beltway Shakedown
Timothy P. Carney
Published: Wed, May 22, 2013
Senators are angry that tech giant Apple isn't paying its fair share. I'm not talking about taxes. This is about campaign contributions and lobbying fees. An investigation by Sen. Carl Levin and a grilling of Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday by the Senate's Permanent Subcommittee on...
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Believe it or not, there’s a lobbying organization for superyachts
Timothy P. Carney
Published: Wed, May 22, 2013
Earlier this month, the United States Superyacht Association retained its first K Street lobbyist, the small firm Smith Advocacy. Politico Pro reports: The association described itself as “the only trade association, representing hundreds of businesses and thousands of individuals, whose...
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Big Government strikes in NYC: Hotels win, consumers and small businesses lose
Timothy P. Carney
Published: Tue, May 21, 2013
AirBnB is a service that allows you to rent out a spare room in your apartment or home. In other words, it’s a startup competitor to established hotels. So, naturally, the hotel industry has supported the government in cracking down on AirBnB. And industry has won.
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Should our diplomats be Monsanto saleswomen?
Timothy P. Carney
Published: Tue, May 21, 2013
A State department official in Hong Kong explained in January 2009 that his diplomatic post “played a key role in reversing Hong Kong (HK) regulators’ intention to announce a mandatory scheme” for labeling of which foods are genetically modified. The cable, intercepted by Wikileaks, went...
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Hospitals desperate to save Obamacare subsidies
Timothy P. Carney
Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013
Remember when President Obama said passing Obamacare constituted “standing up to the special interests”? Well, that wasn’t really true. Now that states are considering implementing the bill, the industries are fiercely fighting to save the law. Michael Cannon of Cato tells the story in...
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Cruet Cronyism: How Big Olive Oil and Big Government collude in restraint of dining
Timothy P. Carney
Updated: Mon, May 20, 2013
You may have heard that the European Union is effectively banning olive-oil cruets and dipping bowls at restaurants. This is a delightful emblem of the absurd technocratic regulatory meddling mindset that pervades the EU. But look closer and it shows you something else about the nature of...
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Tim Carney: For Barack Obama, speech isn't free when it criticizes him
Timothy P. Carney
Published: Sun, May 19, 2013
Benghazi. The IRS targeting the Tea Party. Feds snooping on the Associated Press. These dizzying controversies around the Obama administration all carry the same lesson: Watch what you say. On Benghazi, set aside for a moment the dust-ups over State Department officials changing talking...
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