All Posts Tagged With: "bootleggers and Baptists"

“We Want to be Regulated”

Efforts in Washington to write a major climate-change law are causing some Bootlegger/Baptist coalitions to fall apart and new ones to emerge. In late September Exelon Corporation, a major electric utility, followed industry partners Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and PNM when it resigned from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber opposed the Waxman-Markey [...]

5Jan2010 | Bruce Yandle | 6 comments | Continued

EPA’s Endangerment Finding Endangers Economy

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson announced on Monday that agency scientists, taking into account hundreds of thousands of comments, had determined that carbon and other greenhouse-gas emissions endanger the health and safety of the U.S. population.  The EPA finding followed Supreme Court instructions to the agency to determine if greenhouse gases should be regulated under the [...]

10Dec2009 | Bruce Yandle | 3 comments | Continued

The “I Hate the Poor” Act of 2009

So I was shaving the other day, and the man on the morning talk radio show was on a roll. Cash for Clunkers was being temporarily shut down, or so declared the PR flack in the Department of Waste that administers the program, and Talk Show Guy thought this taught great lessons. “This was a good program! [...]

23Oct2009 | Christopher Westley | 4 comments | Continued

Bootleggers, Baptists, and Bailed-Out Bankers

For more than a year now, people worldwide have experienced an extraordinary chain of economic events. Led by crushing increases in U.S. mortgage-related bankruptcies, the world financial collapse that followed has been termed the subprime crisis, the financial meltdown, the Wall Street bailout, the beginning of another Great Depression, and even the end of capitalism [...]

2Mar2009 | Bruce Yandle | 6 comments | Continued

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