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Lehi Roller Mills and bureaucracy
Tweet A great local business in northern Utah County, Lehi Roller Mills, has recently filed for bankruptcy protection. Hopefully the move will allow the company to get back on its feet and remain viable for the sake of the community, … Continue reading
Freedom to close businesses on Sunday is worth preserving
Tweet Living in a community bordering Highland, we see lots of signs for and against local Proposition 6, which would do away with the city’s Sunday closing. The anti-Proposition 6 campaign is in the right. People don’t need to shop … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Free market
Tagged freedom, Highland, liberty, property rights, Sunday closure
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No liberty is violated by Highland’s Sunday closures
Tweet Residents of the city of Highland are considering repealing a Sunday closure regulation. They alone will decide. My interest in this debate is intellectual. My two cents is simply to remind Highland residents that there is no liberty interest … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Free market
Tagged Highland, liberty, property rights, Sunday closure
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Dr. Moneylove or: How Al Gore Learned to Stop Capitalism and Love Government Connections
Tweet What happens when government begins to direct more and more of a country’s economy with the wealth it has taken from its people through taxation? China and Al Gore provide us examples. According to a Bloomberg report quoted by … Continue reading
Posted in Free market
Tagged capitalism, china, gore, Obama, wall street journal, washington post
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Utah government entities catalogue how they compete with the private sector
Tweet During yesterday’s interim meetings, the Legislature’s Political Subdivisions Interim Committee heard reports from representatives of higher education, K-12 public schools, counties, cities, and others about activities they participate in that potentially compete with the private sector and how they … Continue reading
Posted in Free market, Government Spending, Legislature, Limited Government
Tagged big government, competition, private sector
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Prospects for a humming future in the Beehive State
Tweet A recent publication by the Gallup organization is the latest to suggest a humming future for the Beehive State. In “Utah Poised to Be the Best U.S. State to Live In,” Dan Witters reports that the state leads all … Continue reading
Posted in Community, Free market
Tagged arthur brooks, dan witters, economy, free enterprise, Gallup, livability, poll, standard of living
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Big government, big business are 2 sides of the same coin
Tweet Conservatives are often accused of being the friend of Big Business because of their support of free markets. The irony of this argument, however, is that in reality it is Big Government – the child of most liberal policies … Continue reading
Liberal economic policies are killing jobs
Tweet A conservative blog recently looked at data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics on the “employment-population ratio” (EPR), which measures the percentage of America’s working age population that is actually employed – a good measure of the strength of … Continue reading
The reasonable road to a clean environment: Avoiding policy potholes
Tweet In addition to energy development, transportation policy is another illustration of the damage that radical environmental thinking does to people’s lives and the hope that conservative environmentalism brings for crafting reasonable solutions to environmental problems. And no area illustrates … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Free market
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Energy and conservative environmentalism
Tweet How we think about the environment and human beings’ place in it can dramatically impact people’s lives through public policy. This becomes evident when it comes to energy development and regulation. Radical environmental thinking – which values the existence … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Free market, Limited Government, Uncategorized
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Going upscale in downtown S.L.
Tweet Five years ago backhoes started ripping two old, not-so-upscale malls and surrounding buildings in downtown Salt Lake City into rubble. Now, after an immense amount of construction, the new City Creek Center is open. City Creek is remarkable not … Continue reading
Posted in Economic Development, Free market
Tagged City Creek Center, economic development, free market
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KCPW brinksmanship shows how businesses dupe policymakers
Tweet A very instructive interaction recently concluded in Salt Lake City between the city council and KCPW, a local nonprofit radio station. It helps illustrate how private-sector businesses can (and often do) dupe policymakers into giving them special, privileged … Continue reading
100-year-old patriarch is witness to staggering change
Tweet My grandpa, Martin Buer, turns 100 today. Born in 1911, Grandpa went on to become a top breeder of grand champion cattle out of his Minnesota ranch. To keep the peace with a disgruntled family member, Grandpa gave … Continue reading
The price of a blender and the market economy
Tweet The other day, I stopped at a yard sale with a friend. He had spotted a blender as we drove by and wanted to take a look at it. He picked it up, pulled out the glass jar … Continue reading