CEI Weekly: The Fiscal Union Delusion
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CEI Weekly
October 28, 2011
>>Featured Story
In an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal Europe this week, CEI President Fred Smith and Vice President for Strategy Iain Murray urge the European Union not to standardize tax and fiscal policy across nations. Read the full piece here.
>> Shaping the Debate
What About Fannie Mae Millionaires?
John Berlau’s op-ed in National Review
EPA’s Shocking New Mexico Power Grab
William Yeatman’s CEI study
Flat Tax This: Regulations Are the Boot on Hiring’s Neck
Wayne Crews’ column in Forbes
Seeing Double Regulation
Michelle Minton’s op-ed in The Washington Times
Preliminary Thoughts on Stop Online Privacy Act
Ryan Radia’s post on Technology Liberation Front
Let States Legalize Online Gambling to Stimulate the Economy
Michelle Minton’s post on The Hill’s Congress Blog
GOP Jobs Plan: Rein in ‘Rogue’ NLRB
Vincent Vernuccio and Trey Kovacs’ op-ed in The Daily Caller
New Tax on Jack Daniel’s Could Come Back to Haunt Company Town
Michelle Minton’s op-ed on FoxNews.com
The Stimulus Delusion
Iain Murray’s op-ed in The American Spectator
>> Best of the Blogs
In Memoriam: William Niskanen
By Fred Smith
Hyper-Active Headlines on BPA
By Angela Logomasini
The House Considers Legalizing Online Gambling
By Dave Bier
New York Times Tries to Catch Up With the Energy News of the Day
By Myron Ebell
>> CEI Podcast
October 27, 2011: How Much Do Undocumented Immigrants Cost?
A widely cited study from the Federation for American Immigration Reform claims that undocumented immigrants cost taxpayers $113 billion per year. Policy Analyst Alex Nowrasteh, author of the new CEI Web Memo “A FAIR Criticism: A Critique of the Federation for American Immigration Reform’s ‘The Fiscal Burden of Illegal Immigration on United States Taxpayers.’” finds that the study counts costs but ignores benefits, uses shoddy data, and is harmful to the ongoing immigration debate.