Philly Soda Tax Breaks the Rules and Hurts the Poor Mayor Jim Kenney (D-Philadelphia) has proposed a massive tax hike on the residents of his city. The soda tax, set at 3 cents an ounce, will be an added cost on top of the city’s existing 8 percent sales tax. Today, a 67-ounce bottle of Coke is $1.99. Kenney's soda tax would add $2.01 to the price, more»

At the 2016 Conservative Political Action Conference, the Institute for Liberty circulated a petition, asking attendees to lend their voices to a call for Congress to return to regular order.

A copy of that petition can be found here!

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As HR 4100 continues to be discussed in the US House of Representatives, IFL has put together a backgrounder on the subject!

 

 

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IFL President Andrew Langer has a new piece in the American Spectator:

Cronyism and the Bureaucratic Reset Button

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Let's Choose Economic Growth Over the Rule of Sen. Warren Real Clear Market, 12/10/2015 By Jerry Rogers For progressive judges and politicians – the Occupy-Wall-Street-Movement advocates – capitalism and commerce are the bogeymen. Free enterprise is unfair. The facts are for losers and the Rule of Law can be – indeed, must be – more»

IFL President Andrew Langer has a new piece up at the Washington Examiner...

Congress Should End Crony Casino-Ism

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Conservatives should reject proposals to leverage government agencies (like the USDA) to interfere so deeply in the personal choices of Americans. Monitoring what some Americans put in their grocery carts is decidedly bad policy and anathema to conservative values.

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