From Woke to Broke
“The fact is there is no more money. Period,” says Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot. She’s talking about the teachers’ strike that has paralyzed her city’s public schools—enrollment 360,000—for the past week. The…
Frontiers of Freedom Joins Coalition of Free Market Organizations Opposing APEX Act’s Price-Setting Over Aluminum Reference Prices
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Frontiers of Freedom recently joined 16 other free-market organizations to oppose The Aluminum Pricing Examination (APEX) Act. The APEX Act would grant the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission expansive authority over…
The Fallacies Underlying the Warren Social Security Plan
Elizabeth Warren, U.S. senator from Massachusetts and candidate for president, recently released a Social Security plan that would exacerbate many of the program’s existing problems while also creating several new…
Healthcare Reform Must Not Empower Big Government – It Must Harness the Innovation, Quality and Price Competition of the Marketplace
Before the passage of ObamaCare, we were told that it would solve all the problems with high costs and accessibility of healthcare. We were repeatedly told that Americans would save…
Sen. Rand Paul: If socialists can’t find a crisis, they’ll create one
Most socialist governments rise up claiming to be the solution to a widespread economic disaster, such as peasants starving while corrupt leaders wage pointless wars. However, today’s socialists have to overcome…
Attack on Saudi Arabia Proves Need for Layered Defensive System
Just last week, Houthi rebels in Yemen, who are closely aligned with Iran, claimed credit for a drone attack on Saudi oil processing facilities. News changes fast — a surprising…
Best Way To Lower Seniors’ Drug Costs? Reverse Obama Rule-Changes
One of the problems in health care today is that it turns Oscar Wilde’s quip on its head: In the United States, everyone knows the value of health care, but nobody knows…
ATR Leads Coalition Opposed to Pelosi’s 95% Drug Tax
ATR today released a coalition letter signed by 70 groups and activists in opposition to the Pelosi drug pricing proposal to create a 95 percent tax on pharmaceutical manufacturers. As noted in…
The Best Economic News No One Wants to Talk About
Stop me if this sounds familiar: For most American workers, real wages have barely budged in decades. Inequality has skyrocketed. The richest workers are making all the money. Earnings for low-income workers…
Warren Backs AOC’s Illegal Immigrant Welfare Plan
Democratic presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren endorsed a Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.) policy proposal that includes taxpayer-funded welfare benefits for illegal immigrants. Ocasio-Cortez’s proposal, dubbed “A Just Society,” calls for nationwide…
Sanders: Medicare for All Not Free for the Middle Class
Medicare for All is not free and will require anyone earning more than $29,000 a year to pay more in taxes, presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) said on The…
Coalition Warns That New TTB Rule Violates Deregulatory Mandates
Today, Frontiers of Freedom, along with 12 other organizations dedicated to promoting free markets, limited government, and constitutional principles, sent a letter of caution to President Trump about Notice No. 176, a…
Tax Backed by 2020 Dems Would Hurt Retirement Accounts, Report Finds
A financial transaction tax, though popular with 2020 Democrats, would raise little revenue and substantially shrink the U.S. economy, a recently released report concludes. A transaction tax takes a percentage…
New Poll: 64 Percent Of Democrats Now Support Socialism
A new study shows Democrats running to embrace socialism in the Trump era as radical progressives dominate the 2020 Democratic primary field. The study, conducted by the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute, shows a…
Pelosi’s 95% Retroactive Tax on Medicines will Harm Americans in Need of Cures
Frontiers of Freedom President, George Landrith, made the following statement on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s so-called Lower Drug Costs Now Act: “Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s drug pricing plan to impose up to…