Bank of America Debit Card Tax: a Result of Bad Legislation?
Debit Card Tax: a Result of Bad Legislation. Should Bank of America take all the blame for this highly unpopular, anti-consumer new fee? The Heritage Foundaton says no.
About RI Center for Freedom
This author has yet to write their bio.Meanwhile lets just say that we are proud RI Center for Freedom contributed a whooping 510 entries.
Entries by RI Center for Freedom
Gio Cicione on Newsmakers (Ch-12 & Ch-11) this past Sunday
September 22, 2011 in Blog, News, Pension Reform /by RI Center for FreedomOur senior policy advisor, Gio Cicione, appeared this past Sunday, 9/25, on Channel-12. Tim White and co. reviewed our Center’r recent Policy Brief on the legal authority to adjust state pensions as well as our recommendation that the General Assembly clarify the law with legislation that states this intent due to a critical “public purpose”. Check back soon for a link […]
Legal Authority to Adjust State Pension Plans
September 20, 2011 in Pension Reform, Policy, Recent Posts /by RI Center for FreedomPOLICY BRIEF: The Center for Freedom recommends that the General Assembly take proactive steps to guide future courts! Read our Policy Brief that also discusses of the legal background of the state’s right to adjust pensions and to avoid further municipality bankruptcy proceedings.
The Rich are NOT taxed less than Secretaries (AP)
September 20, 2011 in Liberty Bytes, Recent Posts /by RI Center for FreedomWhen the government mis-states facts in order to push a political agenda, this is another example of big government threatening the liberties of we, the citizens. Read the Associated Press article here on Yahoo News …
Feds Pick A Loser in Solyndra
September 14, 2011 in Liberty Bytes /by RI Center for FreedomWe talk often about how it is an infringement on our liberties when government gets in the business of picking “winners”, in other words, spending our tax dollars to assist specific businesses or industries that are friendly to the politicians doling out the money. We call this “crony capitalism” … government helping their corporate friends, […]
State Pension Reform – RI has a way to go to catch up with other states
September 13, 2011 /0 Comments/in Blog, Pension Reform /by RI Center for FreedomIn 2010 and 2011 (39) US states enacted some form of public pension reform. Rhode Island is one of those states, but we acted in only one of the measured categories in this report.
A Tale of Two Shale States
September 12, 2011 /0 Comments/in Liberty Bytes /by RI Center for FreedomA case study of one state – PA – embracing economic opportunity and providing economic opportunity for its citizens;, while another state – NY – has let environmental politics trump development and job growth, thus taking another byte out of economic liberties for its citizens. Read the Wall Street Journal article here …
Welfare Calling now FREE in Rhode Island
September 12, 2011 /0 Comments/in Liberty Bytes /by RI Center for FreedomWelfare or food-stamp recipients in over 20 US states – INCLUDING RHODE ISLAND – are now eligible to receive a FREE cell phone with FREE minutes. Yet another example of the ever-expanding entitlement state mentality, programs like these take a byte of our your economic liberty (by taxing service providers who pass the cost on to you) […]
Evergreen turns red!
September 12, 2011 /0 Comments/in Liberty Bytes /by RI Center for FreedomMore proof that government intervention in the economy – especially when advancing a politcal agenda – simply does not work. This bad deal cost our taxpaying neighbors in Massachusetts over $58 MILLION! Another byte out their economic liberties. Click here for the Boston Herald story …
What is a Free-Market “Think Tank”?
September 10, 2011 in News /by RI Center for FreedomTHINK TANK // noun: a group or organization dedicated to problem solving and research (as in social or public policy). As the free-enterprise “idea factory” for Rhode Island, and as part of a national network of state-based think tanks advancing liberty-based solutions, our goal is to develop and relentlessly promote research-based, free-market policy recommendations.
Avatars by Sterling Adventures